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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATZ.AJTTA. OJL, 8 WORTH FOMTTI *T. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice ae Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMJB *. GRAY, President and Editor. SYTBSCRLPTION PRIOR Twelve months Six Months ’ Oc Three Months ••• - i * c The Setni-Weekljr Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and farm. .Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R BRAD LEY, aruUtion Dept The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F.« Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kimbrough and C- T. Ta tea We will be responsible only for mon ey paid to the above named traveling representatives. XOTXCS TO SUnSCTtIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. Ry renewing kt least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address, if on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittancjss should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address ail orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. The smaller the man the bigger the boast. The world doesn’t stand still and wait to hear your side of the story. A POOR EXCUSE. Ever since The Journal called attention to the fact that Georgia was not represented in the official noti fication of the Democratic presidential nominee, va rious members of the Baltimore delegation have bus ied themselves in trying to explain this regrettable circumstance. Chairman Pendleton has advanced several excuses but none of them go to the root of the trouble. He says, for instance, that the Hon. J. J. Flynt was appointed to represent the state in the notification of Mr. Wilson at Seagirt but that Mr. Flyut found it impossible to attend the ceremonies. Well and good, so far aa it goes. But the essential fact is that the committee in charge of the notifica tion was never furnished with the name of Georgia’s representative. That is the glaring feature of this official negligence that placed the state in a false and distinctly embarrassing light before the national Timocracy Somebody failed to let the committee know that a representative had even been named fronr Georgia, as a result the space opposite Georgia’s name on the notification document was a blank; and this was the only state in all the Union of which that waa true. The Incidental fact that Mr. Flynt waa providentially hindered from going to Seagirt does not explain the important fact that the na tional committee was not notified of who Georgia's accredited representative was, in order that bls name might be duly inserted where it belonged. For this neglect, there can be no excuse. Chairman Pendleton states that the Hon. K. G. Dickerson, who has been appointed to serve from Georgia on the notification to the vice presidential nominee, also has found it impossible to be present at the proper time. We do not know whether any step> have been taken to notify the committee of the state’s representative in this instance; but, if not. they should be taken at once, in order that Georgia may be saved additional discredit. This entire situation is much to be deplored. It is calculated to give the country at large an im pression that Georgia is indifferent, if not unfriendly, to the party’s chosen leaders for the presidential campaign. Precisely the reverse, of course, is true but when the state is left utterly without represen ts..ou in me uouuc&uou ox the nominee, those peo ple who are nut informed as to Georgia's true seu tnnent are likely to draw false and really damag ing conclusions. The pith of this matter is. wr repeat, that the committee in charge of the Seagirt ceremonies was given no notice whatsoever that a representative > xrom Georgia ii *.d been named. It snouid be seen to promptly that this unfortunate incident is not re peated in the case of Governor Marshall. Many a girl’s Idea of having a good time is to keep her rivals from having a good time. It’s a favorite theory of married women that •very widow's heart should be in the grave. "PULLING” MILEAGE. The Legislature settled a long vexed issue and rendered a substantial service to commercial travel ers when It passed a bill requiring the railroads in thia state to accept "mileage’* aboard trains as the equivalent of regular tickets. For reasons, or rather pretexts, which have never been made thoroughly clear, the roads have persisted In compelling the owners of mileage books to exchange their coupons for special trip tickets. This red-tape rule entailed upon the traveling men a grievous loss of time, which often meant a loss of money. It was con trary to the practice of many of the largest systems of the east; and apparently it was unwarranted either in justice or expediency. The purchaser a mileage book pays for his transportation in advance. True, he receives a re duction in rates but it is equally true that the rail road has the use of his money for a considerable time before he is given the measure of service for which he has paid. To the traveling man, the chief advantage of a mileage book la or should be, that it enables him to make speedy connections. But under the arbitrary rule established by the roads this advantage was de stroyed. The traveler is required to exchange his mileage for a ticket before he can get value for his money; and should he not have time to do this and offer bis mileage aboard the train he would either have to pay cash fare or be put off. v The act of the Legislature in effect abolishes this useless rule. It is regrettable that the roads did not voluntarily concede the traveling men and the trav eling public their due but, since they perslsteniy refused to do so. the action of the General Assembly is timely and justified. Most men are willing to qualify as reformers —if they are allowed to pick out the starting point If a man's backbone is weak, he will never occupy a front seat in the ball of fame. | HOW GEORGIA’S CORN CROP GREW THIRTY MILLIONS A recent announcement that the value of Geor gia’s corn crop has grown thirty million dollars within the past five years has aroused state-wide wonder. Such an Increase appears well-nigh miracu lous. But it is a well attested fact and it is due, not to any extraordinary conditions, but to the patient, practical application of scientific methods of farming. The chief factor in this remarkable growth has been the work of the Boys' Corn Clubs. These clubs were first organized in Georgia in 1905. In the out set they were few and scattered, but immediately their results became fruitfully manifest. In 1909, the State College of Agriculture turned its influence particularly to this enterprise and about the same time a campaign of farm demonstration work was begun. In both these undertakings the Federal De partment of Agriculture joined heartily and rendered invaluable assistance. It is interesting to note the results of this work as they have accrued from season to season. At tne beginning of the corn club movement, the state’s average acre yield of corn was a little more than ten bushels. In 1909, the record advanced to twelve and a half bushels; in 1910 to fourteen and three tenths bushels and in 1911 to sixteen bushels. This means that last year Georgia produced seventy-six million bushels of the great staple crop and thereby won a place of renown among the coun try’s grain-growing commonwealths. It means that within five brief years there have sprung from her soil, through the natural magic of sun and shower, aided by intelligent labor, millions and millions of wealth that hitherto had lain dormant. The significance of this increase to the state’s business interests cannot be overgauged. It touches every shop and store, every ba; k and market place. It puts more money into circulation and, what is especially important, it keeps at home money that formerly went to distant sections. It reminds us that here within our own boundaries we possess all the sinews of self-maintenance, that we can produce harvests of food —8 easily and more cheaply than harvests of cotton, that we can be economically free and independent, If we only will. It should be notea that the increase from ten «.o sixteen bushels of corn per acre represents a state wide average. There are instances, and they are nu merous, where fifty, a hundred and even two hundred bushels have been brought from a single acre. This result, as we have said, is due simply to the working out of well known methods of cultivation. The soil has been made to unbosom its natural treasure, not .3 much by the use of artificial fertilizers or by harder work as by the adaptation of means to ends — the practical use of certain truths which science has unfolded. The one primal secret behind the thirty million dollars added to the state’s wealth is— education. Too much credit cannot be given to the agency through which this knowledge was turned actively to account. The Boys’ Corn Clubs have been the practical instruments in this constructive work. They have enlisted the thought and endeavor of the rising generation in almost every county of the State and have turned thousands of youths into ardent build ers of a greater Georgia. Every possible encouragement should be given such work and the boys who are carrying it forward. They should be supported, and it is good to know that in scores of instances they are supported, by chambers of commerce, boards of trade, the rail roads, by educators and by public-hearted Individuals. If within the next five years the State can accom plish in this vital work what it has during the past five, we shall have a commonwealth even more pros perous than now and one that offers richer advan tages to every line of enaeavor. Mexico has developed a Joan of Arc, showing that the cause of the suffragette is progressing. It would seem that the Democratic party would be under obligations (pr campaign funds to the public only. GEORGIA’S OPPORTUNITY IN THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN The ranks of Georgia workers for the Wilson- Marshall fund are rapidly growing. Public-minded citizens and progressive newspapers are falling in line to render practical service in order that this state may have its due part in the national Demo cratic campaign. This good spirit is'exemplified in the Elberton Star, which has opened a subscription list with the following appeal to the people of Its community: "The election of Woodrow Wilton, the Dem ocratic nominee, should arouse every loyal Democrat to put his shoulder to the wheel. He should give liberally of his time and money. If the people are thoroughly informed as to the principles for which our candidate stands, then we have little to fear.” What the Star is doing In its own district every Georgia daily and weekly should undertake; and it is gratifying to note that scores of them have already done so. Let every true Democrat contribute to the Wilson-Marshall fund. Large subscriptions are not essential. Their number is more Important than their amount. The state should put its col lective patriotism behind the party's leaders and aid in pressing forward to success the great cause they represent. The colonel, it will be remembered, prayed for the xxominaton of Champ Clark. The weather bureau promises hot weather through the south during this week, but, as usual, it will probably miss Atlanta. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1912. SCIENCE SA YES A MILLION DOLLARS IO GEORGIA FARMS The interesting statement is made by Mr. H. B. Layton, secretary of the Tifton Chamber of Com merce, that the government’s rarm demonstration work in southwest Georgia during the spring and summer of the current year has saved the people of that section at least a million dollars. He bases his estimate upon the difficulties that beset the crops and the adverse conditions that were overcome by means of applied agricultural knowledge. The corn crop would have been almost a failure, he says, and the cotton yield would have been sorely reduced, had it not been for the timely counsel and encouragement which was given the farmers In their time of need through the demonstration system. The excessive and continuous rains gave rise to extraoridnary problems. The invasion of many plan: parasites added to the untoward outlook. There were thus divers perils and obstacles before which the so-called old-time methods of cultivation stood helpless. Then it was that the vital value of scien tific insight and treatment proved Itself. Wbat the government experts did for this one section of the State, agricultural education can do for the entire commonwealth. Georgia never spends money more wisely than that she appropriates to hex- College of Agriculture and to the department of entomology. She has developed no enterprise of more far reaching importance than the Boys’ Corn Clubs and kindred organizations devoted to the fur therance of scientific agriculture The progress of the territory about Tifton and of southwest Georgia in general is due largely to the fact that these dis tricts encourage so heartily all those lines of en deavor of which the corn clubs and the demonstra tion work are representative. THE OMEN OF THE WOOL BILL. The hardihood of the Democratic House in pass ing the wool bill over the President’s veto is a cheering omen for the cduse of tariff reform. Wheth er or not enough votes can be mustered in the Sen ate to press the bill to complete success, there has been won a moral victory that will tell, and tell strongly, in the national campaign. This is said to be the first time in a generation that the House Democrats have been able to over ride a Republican president’s veto on a tariff meas ure. What they were able to do in this instance, and also in the case of the steel bill, evidences a widening sentiment for a. downward revision of the tariff. The final vote on the weol bill was one hun dred and seventy-four to eighty. With the Demo crats, stood nineteen so-called insurgent Republicans, men whose constituents, .though nominally of the President’s party, realize the evils of the present protective tariff and demand that they be remedied. The truth is the time has concue when the tariff is vastly more than a party issue; it is an issue be tween the people as a whole and a group of special interests that are thriving on government patronage. Were this not the fact, It is doubtful that the Pres ident’s veto could have been battered down in the House. It is the mission of the Democratic party to carrj out the people’s will on this supreme issue. It is to Democracy alone that the nation can look for relief. Air. Taft has twice declined to let the wool bill become a law. The leader of the new Third Party has the same attitude toward the tariff as the party from which he has rebelled. 'Hie Democrats, on the other hand, have proved true to their prom ises. The House has passed the wool bill three times and it has also passed other sane and timely measures of tariff reduction. The fact that this leg islation is not operative today, reducing the cost of living and enriching the country’s common inter ests, is due solely to President Taft and the Repub lican Standpatters in the Senate. The Democrats have done their duty and have pressed their opportunity to the utmost. They have proved themselves worthy of the measure of control thus far entrusted to them and, therefore, worthy of being placed in full charge of the government. There are more than half a billion dollars’ worth of woollen goods bought by the people of this coun try every year. Had Mr. Taft signed the bill which Congress passed the consumers would nave been saved something like fifty-two million dollars within a single twelvemonth. Thousands of families would have been better able to make their earnings meet their expenses; thousands of children would have gone more warmly clad; the common standard of American living would have been advanced. The tariff is far more than an economic issue; it is a far-reaching uuitan issue. When Mr. Roosevelt clamors for human rights and social justice and at the same time practically ignores, or relegates the tariff question, his professions become as sounding brass. It is with the welfare of households, with uie striking, down of commercial tyrannies and the opening of freer paths for individual merit that tariff reform is concerned. It strikes through to the heart of the trust evil and to the vicious partner ship between the government and special groups of men. It aims to set business free and to establish social rights by removing economic wrongs. That is the prime issue on which Woodrow Wilson, as the Democratic leader, seeks the Presidency. He is the only candidate and his is the only party that has squarely recognized this great issue. It is only through his eleettea that the people will come into their own. FEDERAL AID FOR GOOD ROADS Though the United States Senate has defeated the House measure to provide federal aid for the devel opment of good roads, the issue here involved is of too vital an import to the people ever to die or lag. Sooner or later Congress will be compelled to respond to the country’s needs and place the aid of the national government back of the states in this great work. The average cost of wagon hauling in this coun try is twenty-five cental per ton per mile. in France, Germany and England this cost is only ten cents per ton per mile. This glaring difference is due to the fact that the Earopean governments have given much thought and energy and liberal appropriations to the development and the maintenance of their highways. As a result, their farmers have, in this particular at least, a richer advantage and a surer means to prosperity. The cost of wagon transportation in the United States amounts to little less than a billion dollars annually. It has been 4 conservatively reckoned that good roads would reduce this enormous cost by at least half. The money thus saved would go into the pockets of the fantjer and of the public at large. The federal government should apply Itself to this important enterprise. Brutality and Consistency By Dr. Frank Crane Some time ago a boxer was killed during an exhibi tion, or, to put it more plainly, a prize fighter during a fight. There was straightway great clamor lor the suppression of prizefighting. Far be It from me to defend the sporting gentleman who is an expert in the art of defend ing himself, but I would offer a few reflections in ihis conjunc tion upon the charming inconsist ency of the deeply sensitive and highly moral public. , Prize-fighting, we are told, should be suppressed because of its brutality. It offends >»ur niceness of sense. Sttll gentlemen go hunting in the woods for deer, in the swamp lands for ducks, in Africa for hippopotami, the entomologist chases the butterfly to pin hitn on a card, and the bacteriologist pursues the furtive microbe to ST- 1' • W-a ‘- glue him on a glass slide, also the butcher slaughters the ox for those beefsteaks that give force to o’»r philosophy. To be sure the prize-fighter is a man, and a man is the noblest work of God. But what about the min ers who are killed by hundreds every year, the fish ermen gulped down by the insatiable sea, and the mil lion’s of serfs of industrialism who are imbruted, maimed, and put to death? These hardly make a liv ing, while the prize-fighter gets a thousand dollars a night, more or less. But the dear sensitive public needs Its coal and sardines, canvasback and veal, its luxuries and comforts; which makes a difference. Why hasn’t the boxer a right to go and get himself killed when the notion takes him? To whom does h’s life belong? Not to Caesar, ns In days of monareny; then a man who killed himself robbed the king. But, not arguing that point, and granting that * man ought to be locked up and fined who attempts suicide, football or prize-fighting, may we not ask why, if we won’t let a body die when he wants to. do We compel hlmrto die when he does not want to? Italy sends hundreds of young men who would Hke to live Into Tripoli to die, and France sends her youth Into Morocco; all of which is very fine and carried on with the music of brass bands and the waving of flags. An athlete, however, who Is perfectly willing to play with his life offends us. It’s a queer world! We are for dragging to the polls the men who do not care to vote, while we refuse the ballot to the suffragettes who are panting for it. A half dozen men lose thei# lives trying to ride flying machines, and France enthusiastically raises millions by public subscription to further the cause of aviation. Our best society gathers In the Harvard stadium, and thirty-five thousand cultured ladles and gentlemen watch a group of young college boys break each other’s legs and gouge each other’s eyes. Yet the oldest, most primitive and comparatively least dangerous sports, calling for courage, skill, training and nerve, Is banned as brutal. Perhaps It is. But if we are going to stop all bru tality, do we dare be consistent? At the End of the Rainbow WHY HE DIDN’T GET THE MAN. A man with a perfectly dreadful thirst thanked goodness that there was a telephone! He called on the Iceman and ordered a large block of ice. Then he deliberated a while. He didn’t know whether to order four watermelons and a cantaloupe or four cantaloupes and a watermelon. He didn’t know whether to order four bottles of sarparilla and two ice cream sodas or four Ice cream sodas and two sarsaparillas. At last he decided to order half a dozen of each. He took down the receiver with a smile., upon his face. He waited to hear a voice say, "Number, please?” but there was no voice It happened that a girl who had worked in the tel ephone exchange some time before had come back to »ee the girls at the telephone exchange and had brought her husband with her. The girls had never seen the husband before. In fact, the bride had seen him only a few times herself before she married him. It was very romantic. They had just naturally fallen in love with each other over the ’phone. At least, that was the general impression among the girls. All that any one knew was that a tall young man had entered the telephone exchange one day. nad gone right up to the place where Meg was plugging away and had spoken to her, and Meg had jumped up blushing and with clasped hands, which she had placed in his. and then they had left the room happily and hastily. Now the two had come back from their honeymoon, and all the girls waited to know the particulars, do the thirsty man shouted “Hello!” as well as he could with such a dry throat. Then he waited. “Hello! Hello! Hello!” "Number, please?” said a voice. But when the bridegroom laughingly said: “Well, I suppose you all wonder how It happened. It was like this ” The exchange girl was listening with wide open ears and looking with wide open eyes at the narrator. She plugged a plug and rang a bell. “Hello!” said the thirsty man. "Hello!” answered the other man. “Send m« nine bottles of watermelon and •” “How many carnations did you say?” "Carnations! I said watermelons"’ "We don’t deal In watermelons, we ” “Well, who are you, anyway?” "This Is Andereson’s hothouse.” ••Hot——” The thirsty man swallowed his anger as well as he could with such a parched throat. “Hello, exchange! I don’t want a hothouse! 1 want ’’ "Number, please?” "I was a lonely man,” the bridegroom down at the exchange continued. "I was anxious to love and be loved. All at once it occurred to me that a certain voice was very pleasant and made me feel very happy every time I heard it— “ Say, what’s the matter there?” called the thirsty man over the telephone. "Number, please?” The thirsty man gave the number. "Oh, girls!” cried Meg. “I have won the capi tal prize in the lottery of marriage and I don’t have to work any more!” The girl plugged something or other into any old place and rang a bell. "Hello!” yelled the thrlsty man, “Hello! Hello! Hello!” “Hello,” said a voice at the other end. “Palace bakery. What ts It, please? We have some nice hot ” “Get out! I don’t want anything hot!” roared the thirsty man. “Exchange, what the dickens is the mat ter there? Exchange, hello—” There was no response. girl had entered the telephone exchange wearing a new hat and she had everheard two other girls talking about another girl they all knew, and the romantic story of Meg and the tall bridegroom was forgotten. The man who had been trying to use the telephone dragged himself over to a faucet and let the water run on his tongue. HAMILTON POPE GALT. Pointed Paragraphs Most of a man’s mistakes are due either to a lack of knowledge or a lack of sense. Occasionally you meet a married woman who looks sorry that she isn’t a spinster. Many a man who has hope fcr breakfast has dis appointment for supper. When fortune smiles on you, don’t wait for a formal introductlon- 11 American Philatelic Society By Frederic J t Haskin The American Philatelic society will hold its an nual meeting at Springfield, Mass., beginning August 20. From Los Angeles, San Francisco, the middle —■ mF Vi dresseo upon stamp values, given by experts in the stamps of the different countries of the world, asj well as consideration as to the best means to still' further increase the Interest in the collection of post age stamps. > • • • Few persons who have not themselves become in terested In the subject of philately have any idea of ( its scope or the numerous benefits it confers. Stamp collecting is comparatively a recent hobby, but al ready it has extended to almost every civilized coun try. Every government of Europe now owns Its pri vate stamp collection, some of which represent mil lions of dollars in value. The one in Germany is the most valuable on the continent of Europe, although the collection of the French government is not far behind. There are several collections In England which are worth over $1,000,000. King George is an enthusiastic philatelist and his private collection con tains several of the most valuable stamps in the world. • • • A great international exhibition is now being ar ranged for in London, which will be the greatest af fair of its kind ever held. Every nation is contrib uting and the exhibition, which will be held In No vember, will be one of the subjects discussed at the meeting of the American Philatelic society now in ses- . sion. As several of the private collections of Amer icans belonging to the society are acknowledged to be the largest in the world, the English stamp collectors are anxious to have them at their exhibition. There will not be a great deal of time, however, for their i arrangement and return, since they must be in New York early in February in readiness for the American International Stamp exhibition. ••• - > The most valuable stamp collection In this coun- t try Is owned by Mr. George Worthington, of Cleve land, Ohio. It Is worth considerably more than »1,-j 000,000, and Is being constantly added to. In the eyes of many philatelists it is the finest collection in' the world, although that of Baron Fararri. of Paris, is said to represent nearly $3,000,000. Mr. Worthing ton has already willed his collection to the city of| Cleveland, and provision has been made to keep it in tact perpetually. There is scarcely an important city In the United States in which a philatelic society is not found. For, the past 25 years or more school boys have been en couraged to collect postage stamps, but only recent-i ly has there come any general educational value. Now, however, many teachers are taking It up and It I is believed that a stamp collection will soon form an Important part of the equipment of many public schools. There is no means by which a knowledge of geography and history can better be fixed in the minds of school children than by making them famil iar with the different stamps Issued by the different* countries. The Brooklyn Institute has recently estab lished a chair of philately, and It is prophesied that in the near future similar chairs will be established in a number of prominent educational institutions. The interest which children take in stamp collection is frequently extended to their parents, who provide them the means of gratifying a passion which hasj so many commendable traits, and It is said that at the exhibition to be held in New York next February! there will be a number of valuable collections owned by American school boys. • • • The United States government Is behind most of the other great nations in its philatelic collections.! Its collections were exhibited at the St. Louis exposi tion, after which they were taken to where for several years they were upon exhibition in two rooms and a part of the hall of the third floor! of the postoffice building. Nearly two years ago they wer e turned over to the National museum, where they were stored away and not placed upon exhibition, notwithstanding the requests that have been made for them by visitors to the capital city. The Washing ton Philatelic society has endeavored to have them placed in permanent exhibition so far without result. The museum claims that It has not the funds to pro vide for their proper arrangement, and also that there is no one upon its staff who is capable of undertax ing the task. This matter is an important one in the ( eyes of philatelists, especially as there Is a gentle man in New York who had been contemplating pre-| senting his collection to the museum, but would only do so upon condition that It would be pfeced »<f as 10l be accessible to the public. • • • This particular collection is one qf the most vahia ble in this country and Includes in addition to post age stamps the finest collection of United States rev-i enue stamps which has ever been made, and It seems especially fitting that it should belong to the national* government. As there are several institutions I’l New York and other cities which are anxious to se-| cure this collection, there is a strong possibility that; it may be diverted from the national museum unleosl some prompt action Is .taken regarding the collection; already in ‘ its keeping. It is claimed that the gov-l ernments of th e nations should especially foster the' interest in philately because it is only the stamp col lectors who are apt to notice the issuance of fraudu lent postage stamps which are from time to time/plac ed in circulation. ' Snap Judgfnent BY WALT MABON (Copyright, 1912, by George Matthew Adama.) There came to town a rather sad and lonesome looking pup, a Spitz. Some fellow yelled: “That dog QSEZ? MEL... 'VjSs w <■ . is mad!” And then we ill threw sundry fits. We never rounded up th e skate to ask him where he got his facts: we paus ed not to investigate, but slam med the pup with cataracts of bricks and rocks and sticks and tiles, and kept the poor beast on the jump; we chased him twen ty-seven miles and killed him by the village pump. And then his I owner came along and proved to I us his dog was sane; we'd done I a great and cruel wrong, and on the village placed a stain. For divers days remorse has burned our innards, that such things should be; and yet I doubt if we have learned a lesson from this jamboree. Tomorrow some one may exclaim that Jenks or Jimpson is a crook, and then we’ll all jump on his frame, and try ins little goose to cook. We'll hound our victim from the start, refuse to list to his defense, and take ala hide and break his heart, and make him feel like twen ty cent*. “Just give a dog a bad renown,” the adage says, “then string him up.” We like to run our vic tim down, be be a human or a pup. west, as well as from the norih and south, there will come t hundreds of people, drawn by the attraction- of so small n thing as a postage stamp. Springfield always has been a philatelic' center, so this year it was chosen as the host of the annual meeting, which will | be in session for three days j and be the means, no doubt, of | the sale or exchange of thou- [ sands of dollars’ worth of val-- uable postage stamps. The; stamp collectors assembled wil»! have ample opportunity to in-, spect the philatelic treasures’ of their brbther collectors, as, well as the large collections which have been loaned for ex hibition. There will be ad-
