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Atlanta. Ga. a
THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
Governor Brown’s message to the General Assem
bly contains a number of recommendations which are
practical and praiseworthy; it contains others from
which, we believe, a majority of Georgians will em
phatically dissent. y
On such constructive measures as the reclamation
of swamp lands, the survey of soils, the establishment
of a state highway commission, the strengthening of
t nan rance laws and the development of educational
Interests, most good citiiens think alike. The gover
nor has done well, however, to urge these needs upon
the legislature with particular emphasis. He has pre
sented them convincingly and it is to be' hoped that
his timely suggestions will be followed.
His attack upon the railroad commission law and
the registration law are not new, nor is it supported
by any new argument. The fact is these issues, if
issues they may still be called, have been thoroughly
threshed out long ago and settled to the satisfaction
of the people.
No department of the people’s business is more im
portant than that which has to do with the relation
ships betwen the public and the public service cor
porations. This is a matter that involves millions
of dollars every year and touches the daily interests
of the merchant, the manufacturer, the investor and,
in one way or another, the interests of practically
every citisen and every home, in the commonwealth.
It was to safeguard these common interests that the
railroad commission was enlarged and was given
more definite authority. Its increased power en
tailed new duties and made essential the service of
every one of Its added members. As a commission
which stands for even justice between the public and
the public service corporations and which impartially
protects the right of each and looks to the pros
perity of both, it should be conserved, not weakened
in its efficiency. •
The present registration law is part and parcel
of that progressive measure broadly known as the
pure election law. It is designed to give full potency
to the honest voter’s ballot, to mace our primaries
and elections truly expressive of the people’s will, to
make our governnunt really popular by making it
clean at its very source. If it be stringent,, that is
only to its credit, for any law dealing with theft
and corruption must be unequivocal if in any wise
it is to serve its purpose. Naturally , and rightly, it
is stringent as regards the floating and corruptible
dement that drifts like scum to the polls on election
days; but for that very reason, it is eminently liberal
to good ciuenship. It provides that the registration
books shall be opened each autumn concurrently with
the tax books, and that they shall remain open
until within six months of the general election. Thus
every voter Is given ample opportunity to qualify
himself for the rightful exercise of suffrage. Under
any statute whatever that might be adopted, there
would have to be some time fixed for the closing of
the registration books. The existing law only leaves
time enough for an adequate purging of the lists. A
man who neglects to register within six months, es
peeially since the la v has become universally knbwn
In the state, would in all likelihood fail to do so even
though he were given the entire twelve in which
to do so.
This statute is open, perhaps, to certain con
structive modifications, but they should be made
by its friends, not its enemies and they should be
made with a view toward strengthening, not weak
ening it. Pure elections, and especially pure prima
rise, are at the very base of good government. We
do not believe that the people of Georgia will ever
countenance any step that would tend to make their
primary- and election methods less scrupulous. On the
contrary, they demand that they be rendered even
tnore secure against dishonest and debasing influences.
The electorate of this state would, indeed, welcome a
law. if such a one is possible, requiring the adoption
of the Australian ballot system at every poll in every
county. But the suggested repeal of the registration
law is a look in the reverse direction—a look back
ward, toward old evils and outgrown tyrannies with
which our people have done fojever.
As we said in the outset, however, this proposal
is not new and it is supported by no new arguments.
Indeed, it may be considered as a closed question,
and we have abundant faith that a progressive legis
lature will keep it such.
Viewed in its entirety, the Governor’s message
carries much that is commendable. The General As
sembly, it is to be hoped, will remember the good
and forget the bad.
OUR GOOD ROADS WORKERS.
One of the most useful conventions of the season
is that of the Georgia federation of road authorities
who are meeting this week at Athens in conjunction
with the highway department of the state university.
Some two hundred delegates, representing more than
a hundred counties are in attendance.
The value of such a conference can scarcely be
overestimated. It will not only quicken the good
roads spirit throughout the state but, what is even
more important just now, it will direct this general
enthusiasm into definite and well organized and.
therefore, more effective channels.
If the officials of one county are to build roads
that will render their full measure of service, they
must understand the purpose and the problems of
neighboring counties. If the state is to have a thor
oughgoing system of highways and not merely a
broken series of road-links, all the counties must
works cooperatively.
For this reason such a convention as is being
held at Athens Is of particular value. It enables the
men who are directly in charge of the road building
in their respective counties to exchange views, to
profit by one another’s experience and, above all, to
reach a common understanding and sympathy in the
great enterprise before them. The result will doubt
less be that each official will return home with a
more liberal perspective of his work and with a
clearer sense of the truth that he is building not
only for his immediate community but for the com
monwealth as a whole.
It would be an appropriate thing, we believe, for
this convention to take note of the state’s need of a
central highway commission and to urge the impor
tance of such a commission upon the general assem
bly. Georgia has made wondrous strides in road
building within the past five years. The record
shows, indeed, that with the exception of New York,
she has surpassed all other states in the nupaber of
miles of roads constructed. There is scarcely a
county within her borders that is not alert and
active in the good roads cause. If to this enthusiasm
she will now add the guidance which will come
through the assistance and supervision of the state
itself, her future progress will be all the more sub
stantial and gratifying.
At the last session of the legislature there was
introduced a bill to establish a state highway com
mission but in the rush of eleventh-hour business it
failed to pass, It' is to be hoped that such a meas
ure will be presented at the approaching session and
will be enacted. _ >
The convention of good road workers at Athens
is fortunate in’ having the co-operation of the uni
versity’s highway department. This department,
though but recently created, has rendered far-reach
ing service to a number of counties and it stands
ever ready to give scientific advice and aid to every
community in the state. Road building has become,
or is fast becoming one of the great practical arts of
the time. The returns upon the money invested in
road improvement or extension depend largely upon
the methods by which it is spent. The university’s
highway department shows how these funds can be
spent with the highest economy and efficiency.
THE WEALTH OF COTTON SEED.
The annual convention of the cation seed oil mill
superintendents, being held this week in Atlanta, il
lustrates the wonderful growth and compass of a
southern industry that is comparatively new.
Scores of delegates representing millions of cap-'
ital and divers fields of trade are present from al
most every quarter of the Southeast. The subject
matter of their conferences covers a remarkable
range of interests. On Thursday, for instance, they
are discussing applied chemistry, mechanical engi
neering, the employment of labor, methods of mar
keting and a number of other questions which ex
tend from the general laws of science to the min
utest details of economics. And in the course of the
convention, there will be presented in one form or
another problems that concern every business and
every household in the land.
It is hard to conceive that an industry reaching
so far as this has developed in less than a generation
and, indeed, within the past decade. Yet, such is the
case. It was not many years ago when little or no
attention was paid to the so-called by-products of the
South’s staple crop. Here and there could be found
some farsighted investor who discerned the possi
bilities of cotton seed and hulls, but for the most part
this great residue of the crop was ignored, or turned
to little practical account.
But it has come to pass that today this very res-,
idue all but rivals in value and interest the cotton
itself. It has numbers of new products to the
South’s manufacturing output and has extended her
commerce to faraway countries. It has opened new
fields of employment to thousands of people and rich
fields of investment to capital. In a noteworthy
sense, it has served to reduce the cost of living at
many points. It has shown that from the cotton
plant, man can secure not only his raiment, but
also important items of his food.
For these reasons the present convention of men
who are engaged in this young but gigantic industry
is particularly interesting.
In their efforts to perfect it, to widen, its scope
and increase its profits to the individual and to the
section as a whole, to extend its usefulness and its
fame, they have the heartiest good will of all the
Southern people.
Candidates and Higher Education
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
There is not a prominent candidate for nomination
for the office of president of the United States who is
not a university graduate. Furthermore, there is not
one who has not earned subsequent honors, either from
his own alma mater or from another college. And
there are more candidates for nomination this year
than ever before; the result is more in doubt *han
ever it was before.
Theodore Roosevelt is a graduate of Harvard, and
he has earned and been honored with further degrees
from his own and from other universities. William H.
Taft is a Yale alumnus. Other institutions of learn
ing have recognized his scholarship and his achieve
ments. Senator La Follette Is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, with similar post-graduate hon
ors ahd degrees.
Governor Harmon was graduated from Denison
University in 1866, and several degrees have, since
been conferred on him. Champ Clark obtained Ms ed
ucation from Kentucky university, Bethany college and
the Cincinnati Law school. Oscar Underwood was
graduated from the University of Virginia. William
Jennings Bryan was highest in his class when Illinois
university gave him his bachelor's degree in 1881.
Since that time, his own college and other institutions
have recognized him with double-L honors.
Times have changed since Andrew Johnson became
president in 1865. That executive, tradition says, was
unable to read or write until after his marriage, when
his wife Instructed him in these useful arts. Illiter
acy is not an attractive quality, particularly in one
elected to high office. Even Mexico may be congrat
ulated on the defeat of Orozco—a man who could not
write his own name, but who might have been the
president of an American republic but for Huerta's
victory.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912.
THE DREAM-LOST
> By Dr. Frank Crane
If I had to choose between the things I have missed
in my dreams and what I have gained in my waking
hours, I should not hesitate. Give me the dream lost.
Just as the mendacious fisher
tells that the biggest fish were
those that got off the hook and
fell back into the water, so my
greatest prizes are those that
slipped out of my hands as I tried
to canry them over from dream
to da£.
The Yox in the fable called
sour the grapes he could not
reach (though, by the way, who
ever heard of a fox wanting
grapes?); but as for me, the sour
grapes are too often those I get,
and the luscious ones hang too
high in the arbor of dreams.
In my dreams I find pocket
books, great fat ones, stuffed with
green, and when I am about to
spend the money I wake up. In
the daytime I lose pocketbooks.
In my dreams I am unani
mously elected; by day I am not
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even a candidate.
• It is said of Coleridge that he
composed the poem “Kubla Khan” in a dream and
wrote out a part of it when he awoke, but could not
finish it. The last lines left him. <
The other night I composed a perfectly stunning
drama. It was novel, striking, epochal. The situations
were entirely new, the interest was intense, the lines
were beyond Shakespegre, and the conclusion was a
dramatic thunderbolt. I lost the whole thing before I
could get my clothes on. It had vanished like frost on
the windowpane. 4
If I had all my dream-lost treasures I should be
wise as Solomon, witty as a Mark Twain, clever as
Herrmann the magician, rich is Rothschild, and hand
some as the Old Nick himself.
If you could only visit the inside of my mind when
I am asleep you would certainly say, “He is the deuce
of a fellow, and no mistake."
There are too many things going on when one is
conscious. Every chair and table distracts one. Every
sound and odor and other bodily sensation gets in
one’s road. But in dreams it is you and your pure idea.
With that perfect union there is nothing to forbid the
banns.
Still, it Is about as well, perhaps, in the end. The
classic question has hever been settled, whether the
king who dreamed every night that he was a beggar
was happier than the beggar who dreamed every night
he was a king.
And when you say heaven is but a good dream and
hell a bad one, you haven’t mended matters; for one
can really be happier and also suffer more Intensely,
in a dream than in waking. To live on earth and
dream of heaven is possibly as well as to live in heav
en and dream of earth.
When we awake there are compensations, when we
dream there are none.
The highest joy and the highest pain are those of
the unloosed mind in dreams.
—.— r
The Ragtime; Muse
CELEBRATED THE RIGHT WAY.
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You don’t have sich celebrations
As we did when I was young—
Firin’ anvils and orations
By the Hon’rable Jim Bung.
Our parades began and ended
With the Kipe and Bimson bands
An’ we thought the sight wuz splendid.
Me an’ Sally, holdin’ hands.
“ I don’t give a durn for speeches
Like these silk hat fellers make;
There wuz in Bung’s roars an’ screeches
Elerquence an’ no mistake,
The miiretiy, too, wuz trainin’
At its captain’s stern commands—
We had fun, unless ’twuz rainin’,
Me an’ Sally, holdin’ hands.
What Bung said wuz *worth repeatin’—
All about the grandjol’ flag.
How we’d cheer, though we wuz eatln’
Peanuts from a paper bag!
Wish I’d git some mor£ sich plaesure
With the runnin’ of life’s sands
Like them memories I treasure —
Me an’ Sally, holdiri’ handle!
Pointed Paragraphs
There’s nothing green about the grass widow who
goes after a rich bachelor.
• • •
Naturally a female attendant in a lunatic asylum
thinks everybody is crazy about her.
• • •
Many a girl strives to make a name for herself
rather than attempt to make a loaf of bread.
We can see the whole Chicago convention in the
moving picture shows, and escape the oratory, too.
• -♦ •
Job was a patient man, but hv never found the
cat asleep on the piano just after he had varnished it
• • •
When you meet a woman who is indifferent as to
the size of her feet, it’s a sign she is merely waiting
for her turn to ride in the undertaker’s wagon.
Saving and Investing Talks
SAVINGS BANKS’ INTEREST RATES.
BT JOHN M. OSKISON.
There is a movement under way to reduce the in
terest rate paid on deposits in savings banks. As a
thrifty American jJou should be familiar with the ar
gament of those who are forcing
the change.
First of all, put aside any im
pression you may have that the
reduction is urged by schemers or
crooks, for there is no question of
the honesty of the men who say
that savings banks can’t go on
paying as much as 4 per cent and
maintain a reasonable surplus.
Some of the strongest men in.-the
New York State Savings Bank as
sociation, which has taken up this
matter lately, contend that 3 per
cent is a sufficiently high return
to depositors, and the real end and
aim of a savings bank ought to
be to protect the principal of a
depositor and keep that unimpair
ed, rather than the paying out of
Si - y
a high interest rate. By conserv
ing their profits in this way, say the advocates of con
servative interest payments, the surplus of a savings
bank can be built up, and the whole institution
strengthened. The thing the depositor chiefly cares
about is the safety of his deposit, not the rate of in
terest; and the bank with a surplus—a strong surplus
—affords that protection.
There is agitation in the association for a law re
quiring all savings banks to accumulate an “adequate
minimum surplus.” To make up the figure suggested
some of the New York banks which now pay 4 per
cent would have to reduce their rate to 3.
Properly, the investments of savings banks are lim
ited strictly to very high class securities. Many bonds
now held as guarantees of savings banks solvency are
selling at a lower price in the market than the banks
paid. Conservative bankers do not like to carry secur
ities on their books at a value greater than can be
realized in the current market, even though they feel
sure that they will be redeemed at maturity at their
face value. They believe that a bank ought to be in
a position, every day of its life, to liquidate and pay
100 cents on the dollar to every depositor.
As a patron of a savings bank it will pay you to
find out something about the variety and standing of
the - securities your bank owns. You can figure out
yourself pretty accurately what rate of interest it cdn
afford to pay pou. When you know that take a stand
on the question. These banks are run for your accom
modation, and for no other legitimate purpose. You
should control them in .this and other matters.
WOMEN’S CLUB WORK
In the Field of Art.
BT FBEDEBIC J. HASKIN
Since tne love of the beautiful is essentially a fem
inine characteristic, it was most fitting that the sub
ject of art should receive great attention from the
earliest beginning of the worn-
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and schools of the country. A companion volume,
’•Outlines for the Study of Art," has been pronounced,
of equal practical value.
• * •
The federation as a whole has worked primaril}
for two objects, namely: the placing of all art ob
jects Imported from foreign countries upon the free
list, and the establishment of art commissions, both
state and municipal, throughout the country. In ad
dition to .this, the clubs are working continually for
the establishment of permanent art collections in each
state capital, as well as in other large cities. The
Women’s club of St. Louis has established the nucle
us jf a permanent art collection for that city which
will be augmented every year through its Influence.
Besides these general objects, the several state fed
erations and also the individual clubs continually vie
with each other in Initiating special activities for ex
tending an Interest in art in their own localities. More
than half of the state federations now have traveling
art collections which are shipped from one town to
another, thus giving many clubs a chance to study
from pictures which would otherwise be unobtainable in
a small town. Sometimes states exchange their col
lections. During the past year Illinois has lent to Ne
braska a collection of oil and water colors by well
known Chicago artists, which have been widely circu
lated and greatly appreciated by the clubs privileged
to command their benefits. In St. Louis a committee
composed of one member from each of the city and
suburban clubs has made a number of collections n f
reproductions of well known paintings and pictures of
classic sculpture, together wltb art reference books
to assist In their intelligent use. The first of these
was sent to the canal zone, where it was much appre
ciated by the American women now living upon the
isthmus of Panama. Others have been circulated
among the rural towns of several surrounding states
with good results.
• • •
The art study classes taking the general federation
courses are introducing into their working plans sub
jects of general and popular interest instead of con
fining themselves to the study of classic works of
art which filled up their programs a few years ago.
Now such subjects as "What can the Women’s club do
to raise the standard of taste?”, ‘‘What can be done-to
improve dress and home decoration?”, "What can be
done to lead to a better appreciation of the work In the
arts and crafts?”, can the clubs do to Influents
civic life in the direction of the beautiful?”, are among
the newer topics presented upoi\ the club programs.
• * *
With the realization of the fact that true art lies
only in a proper appreciation of beauty wherever It is
found, comes the discarding of many of the false and
unnatural art standards which constituted the earlier
art work in many clubs. Every community has its
objects of natural beauty and the art department of
the club should seek to encourage the appreciation
oi them and to secure their proper preservation. Some
times prizes are offered by clubs for the best photo
graph of the most 'distinctive trees of a town or of
an artistlcj>icture of some bit of neighboring scenery.
These pictures may be exhibited in the town library w
in public school buildings and afterwards preserved
for future use.
• • •
Perhaps the most extensive and popular work of
the art departments of women’s clubs has been the
placing of art objects upon the walls of public schools
and the formation of public school art leagues. In
one territory where distances are great and educa
tional facilities limited, every public school In the ter
ritory received two fine pictures from the club wom
en of that territory. One large department club in a
western city has expended over SIO,OOO in school house
decoration. The decoration of a school building as a
memorial to some prominent woman is a custom orig
inating with the Civic club, of Philadelphia, which
raised sufficient money to decorate a school In such
a manner as to make it a model and then induced the
board of education to rename It as a memorial to a
woman who, up to the time of her death, had been de
voted to the improvement of the civic conditions of
her city.
• « •
The art department of the Alabama Federation of
Women’s Clube arranged to award a plaster cast of the
"Winged Victory of Samothrace” to the first high
school In the state which would raise half of Its cost.
It went to the new Sydney Lanier school In Montgom
ery, where it is receiving so much admiration that oth
er schools In the state are endeavoring to secure sim
ilar decorations. Many of the clubs are now holding
traveling wrt exhibitions and using the proceeds to
purchase pictures for the decoration of public schools.
• • *
The value of the work women are doing for the ar
tistic improvement of the country is being generally
recognized. In Minnesota, the art committee of the
Federation of Women's Clubs has been made an asso
ciate with the state art commission which it was in
strumental In founding. In Kansas the club women
have been asked to provide an advisory commitee for
beautifying the grounds of the capltol.
• * •
The Missouri club women have taken for their
motto "Art in the Market Place” and have arranged
innumerable exhibitions for the benefit of the people
who ordinarily have little opportunity for such pleas
ures. In Mississippi free traveling art exhibitions
under the auspices of the clubs are enthusiastically
received. In Nebraska three traveling galleries of
original paintings and a box of pottery have been pro
vided by the state federation to be loaned only to fed
erated clubs, and this one inducement has added a
number of clubs to the membership roll. This state
federation has also provided a number of portfolios
of English, Flemish and Dutch art for the use of in
dividual clubs Interested in these subjects, together
with the needed descriptive books. The women of
North Dakota have placed a magnificent statue of the
Indian chief, Sakakawea, upon the capltol grounds at
Bismarck, the first public monument ever erected by
the of that state.
When a Boost Is a Knock
Chicago Tribune.
When Mr.’Champ Clark obligingly wrote the testi
monial for a patent medicine he was not taking him
self seriously as a candidate for president. The ep
isode justifies the country in not doing so now.
There have been lamentations in the Republican
party over the "loss of dignity.” They leave us cold.
Such dignity as has been lost has been lost laudably
rather than lamentably, but in the case of Mr. Clark
we have a different matter.
Mr. Clark’s testimonial would lose no value for the
patent makers if he were elected president.
It would be unique and Mr. Clark’s position would Be
unique. A wood cut of his noble features would con
tinue to adorn the statement: "It's the best all
around medicine ever sold over a druggist’s counter.”
Among the sayings and writings of American presi
dents this would be notable.
The nation would be proud of Mr. Clark and as
president he would find that his indorsement of patent
medicines would be sought more energetically than
ever before.
Collier’s Weekly, which directs attention to the
case, has illuminated Mr. Clark’s mentality. He has
not taken hlmeslf very seriously as a candidate for
president and In this at least the country can agree
with him.
en’s club movement. There is
hardly a club on the rolls of the
general federation which has
not in some manner contribut
ed towards securing a higher
standard of art for the nation,
even though its efforts were
confined entirely to its own lo
cality. One of the most popu
lar publications of the federa
tion Is its "Handbook of Art
In Our Own Country,” which
summarizes what has been ac
complished for art in America.
It has been compiled through
the united efforts of the club
women of the nation and con
tains a list of the most artis
tic buildings in all of the more
important cities and all of tier
notable works of art. It has
been widely circulated, not only
through the clubs, but among
the libraries, museums, colleges
xJTjOME topics
FrjJRS.UHJTELTO/l
SIMPLE TASTES AND SXM?X>E LIVING.
I was on a train some days ago speeding to Ath
ens commencement, when my attention was attracted
to a family of foreigners, well to the front of me,
who were either Italians or Russian Jews. They were
eight in number, men, women and boys. They were
from New Orleans, I presume, going north to work
during summertime.
They were as merry as larks, and enjoyed them
selves very much as we rushed along in clipping style.
After a while a man reached overhead, took down
a little white bag, a kind of a poke, and took out a
moderate sized loaf of bread which he cut into four
sections, and he distributed them to the women and
girls. Then he reached in and took out another loaf,
cut off a section for himself and motioned to the
others, boys of various ages. They came over, took
each a chunk of bread, went back to their seats ana
ate that unbuttered, plain bread like it was pound
cake! They were thoroughly satisfied with their
lunch, coming back again for another supply when
they had eaten the first allowance, crust and all.
The only diversion was a 5-cent bottle of coca-cola,
with the glassy beads on the outside of the botle, just
taken from the ice. When they finished the coca-cola .
and the hunks of bread their repast was finished, and \
they were well pleased, and in no wise abashed as to
the lookers-on who saw the whole performance.
Where they were born nice white bread is not so
plentiful, so they enjoyed the bread and their hunger
was appeased. When I got off the train they were
shaking off the crumbs, and from the length of their
railroad tickets I judged they would not stop this side
of New York. It was actually refreshing to watch
these untutored children of another country, who cared
nothing for frills or fashions, and who relished their
humble fare in a most unsophisticated way.
When I thought of the dining car in our rear with
a $1 dinner waiting for fashionable epicures or rich
people, I wondered if there was a soul on that crowd
ed train who was happier or so well contented as those
good-humored, careless and uncultured travelers, who
solved the problem of subsistence with such ease and
satisfaction.
• • •
THE BEIGE OF LAWLESSNESS.
One of the' speakers on commencement day at the
University of Georgia discoursed on this present era
of lawlessness In Georgia. As we know, Georgia was
one of the 13 colonies of Great Britain, and has had a
code of laws for civil government for 150 years, but
his statistics were fearful figures as to prevalence of
crime and the meager amount of legal correction and
punishment. He said there were 100 murders commit
ted in Georgia last year. Os these murderers only
four (as I recollect) received the full penalty of the
law. He further said tnat an outraged public more
than often took lynch law as their protection and to
vincucate outraged justice. I did not catch all he said
on this line, but I saw his speech stirred the men on
the stage, two of whom were the two federal judge*
of our state, siting side by side, not to speak of tho
governor and a nufnber of prominent lawyers and dig
nitaries seated on the stage. If I had been given the
opportunity I should have asked: "Do the fgcts sus
tain this terrible criticism of Georgia's incapacity to
govern herself?” I presume the young man’s figure*
were taken from the official records. Otherwise, he
would not liave dared to announce them so boldly in
the distinguished presence of these administrators oi
the law.
God forbid that I, an old lady, going down th*
sunset slope of life, should clamor for the gallows or
the electric chair in Georgia, but I do say that open
disregard of law and the power of money to eave th*
guilty from legal punishment is not only, demoralizing
the progress of criminal law, but is unsettling public
confidence in the administration of civil law or th*
adjustment of civil suits.
Take the Morse case, where a very'rich man was
convicted of the embezzlement of other people’s money
and sent to Atlanta's federal prison to serve out a
very small term of legal punishment as compared to
his proven culpability. The stolen money was flung
out to greedy lawyers who made money talk before u
President Taft, and Morse, the convicted embezzler, is
free and enjoying the fruits of his embezzlement. I
wouldn't vote for Mr. Taft for that reason alone, be
cause there was simply no excuse for Morse’s pardon.
This reign of lawlessness begins at the top and goes
all the way down to the bottom. The young speaker
spoke truth.
• • •
THE STEAM BOLLEB DC POLITICS.
When the Taft faction decided to count in the dele
gates friendly to President Taft and count out the
delegates that were elected in the respective states for
Mr. Roosevelt and others opposing Mr. Taft, it wa*
rabid politics gone clean crazy. The most of these
counted-in delegates were hailing from states that
have never elected a Republican president and they
were only figuro-heads in Chicago and less than fig
ure-heads at home.
Therefore, the whole thing became grimy with
fraud as well as insolence. The steam roller was de
ployed to further tyranny and the whole business prov
ed iyielf to be rotten. Nobody respects such a nom
ination, and I am astonished that Mr. Taft has coun
tenanced the effort. It means a finish to the Taft
regime, and the story of the steam roller will be heard
from Maine to California and from the lakes to the
gulf during the months ahead of us, reaching to th*
November election. •
Personally, I am glad of it. It takes a thunder
cloud to clear the atmosphere in hot climates, and we
will have a political storm that will rush over the
whole country very soon. If the Democrats are wise
they will not quarrel at Baltimore, and especially they
will not allow a steam roller to be in evidence. It
smacks of insolence and tainted money to force any
sort of a political nomination, and a red-hot time in
Baltimore will only bring on a Democratic revolt from
boss rule. I have been hoping (I will not say pray
ing) for a grand split-up in the Republican party for
many long years, because the Democrats have been
chronic splitters ever since the war, hence their dis
asters. The Republican party has actually outlived
itself and has disintegrated because of its greed, and
these old blood-suckers should be detached from the
strong box of the nation for j übllc safety.
I am delighted with the split in Chicago. It is a
sign of clearer skies and clean< r politics.
A thing of duty is a job forever.
• • •
It is usually safe to judge a man by his manners
• • •
A bigamist is a man who has more wives thsn
brains.
• • •
Jumping at conclusions' is a woman’s idea of phy
sical exercise.
Taking a vacation usually means getttlng bored
at exorbitant rates.
• • •
You never see a girl* hike for the kitchen when
she wants to kill time .
• • •
( It’s awfully hard to quarrel with people who won’t
pay any attention to you.
The popularity of a homely girl may depend on the
sum her father can write a check for.
VACATION DAYS i
When I think it best to enjoy a rest I don’t go to
Cork or Rome, to the mountains flee, or infest the sea
—I just lie around at home. With
ms trusty pipe—which is good
and ripe—I seek for the Goldun
Fleece in a rattling book, in a
cozy nook, my feet on the man
telpiece. I do not sigh for Ital
lan sky or yearn for an Alpine
guide; I do not crave for the
ocean wave—l’m perfectly satis- ‘'
fied. In books I find from the
beastly grind relief that is net- j
ter far than to blow my wad '"or
a tour abroad in airship or mo
tor car. I climb no hills and I
pay no bills for breathing the
mountain air; I am not mobbed
and I am not robbed at home in
my easy "hair. I pay no cash
a]
for autrageous hash but feed on the things I like,
and I do not wake at the morning’s break with tour
ists somewhere to hike. lam not clubbed by the cops
or snubbed, as tourists are often spurned; my jaws
don t creak in attempts to speak a language I never
learned. And when I am done with vacation fun no
wearisome tales I pour from a tireless jaw of the things
I saw—so no one _
