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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATLANTA, GA., S ZOZTg rOMTIX tt.
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THE THIRD-TERMER.
'That I should lay down my charge at a
proper period is as much a duty as to have borne
it faithfully. If some termination to the services
of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Con
stitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nom
inally for years, will, in fact, become for life;
and history shows easily that degenerates into
an inheritance." —Thomas Jefferson.
A precedent is not its own Justification. "The
Sabbath was made for man. not man for the Sabbath,"
But if a precedent sprung from a people’s needs,
if it expresses their will to be free and is inter
\ ..with the very fabric of their government, they
• dare not rip it out, unless they are ready for revolu
*.o:. In this sense, * against a third
term for a President of the United States is a vital
principle to the American people. It is one of the
essentially democratic features of their govern; .ent, a
distpetive mark between Old World and New World
institutions. It is a bulwark against government by
a man, instead of government by law. Established
by Washington in the Republic’s beginning, it has
been reaffirmed by Jefferson and Madison and Mon
roe and Jackson —Southern statesmen all, who thus
expressed their country's inherent aversion to abuses
of the executive power.
Against this great unwritten law, Mr. Roosevelt's
ambition is now directed. The Journal has pre
viously said that on those questions of government
which especially engage the southern people his pol
icies and their convictions, his purposes and their in
terests are radically opposite. This Is true Os his
position on the tariff, on the political status of the •
negro, on the rights of the States and it is emphat
ically true of his past record and his present views
concerning the power of the President
There was a time when Mr. Roosevelt himself
recognised, in words at least, the value and the need
of the rule his predecessors had established; for. in
the outset of his second term he declared:
“The wise custom which limits the President
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to two terms regards the substance and not the
. form and under no circumstances will Ibe a can
didate for or accept another nomination.’’
A public man of common sincerity would not have
made such a pledge bad he not thought it well ad
vised and. having made it. he would have considered
it binding. Not so, however, with Mr. Roosevelt; for,
to him consistency, even in essential matters, seems
merely "a hobgoblin of little minds.” We may wed
ask how such a man would regard a fourth or a fifth
or a life term in the Presidency. If he breaks bis
faith with the public to serve bis ambition now would
he scruple to break It as often as he chose in me
future?
The reason and the justice of the third-term pre
cedent, however, are broader than any particular case
or any individual’s promise. This rule, aa we have
said, is a distinctive feature of our system of govern
ment and it serves the vital purpose of safeguarding
the nation against one-man power, in his "American
Commonwealth,” Mr. James Bryce declares: “The
President enjoys more authority, if less dignity than
a European king." He may veto legislation, a power
which no present day sovereign possesses. He ap
points his own cabinet, while the ministry of most
constitutional monarchies is named by a popular as
sembly. He appoints the members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which controls the rates of
practically all the railroads In the country and super
vises many other public service concerns. He ap
points the judges of the Supreme eourt and also of
the district and circuit courts, who interpret the law
and thus largely define the course of our national
life. He appoints ambassadors and members of the
diplomatic and consular service and thousands of
other officials who have to do with important public
business. He has extensive power in dealing with
foreign nations and with international affairs; and
in addition to all these powers legally conferred,
there are many others which he can and docs
exercise.
The enormous federal patronage at the President's
dmposel could be used by an unscrupulous man for
dangerous ends. Even a cabinet officer, as the country
uas lately learned through sore experience, can make
bis department a tool of autocracy and oppression.
Post rp.ujer General Hitchcock has held the business
rights and interests of the public -fl his grasp. He
has issued arbitrary orders and then summoned the
Depart meet of Justice to enforce them as though they
were the law of the land. He has set up a system of
espionage that is unparalleled outside of Russia. He
has used the patronage at his command to further
partisan ends and to build up a vast political ma
chine. Who, then, can doubt that under inviting
conditions and with a practical Incentive, a chief
executive of Roosevelt’s type could press bis own
license to such a length that the liberties of the peo
ple would be imperiled, if not destroyed?
These being the powers of the President, how es
—-*«-» it ia that he should keep faithfully within his
particular province, that he should not seek to usurp
the rights of the Congress or the courts and that ”at
the proper period,” as Jefferson expressed it, “he
should lay down his charge.”
But Mr. Roosevelt’s conception of the Presidency
is radically different from this. Just as he contends
for a concentration of power at Washington at the
expense of the individual States, so does he also con
tend for a further concentration of power in the
hands of the chief executive at the cost of the legis
lative and the Judicial departments. It is this very
idea that earmarks his New Nationalism, of which
he has said: "It is impatient of the impotence that
proceeds from an overdivision of government powers.
The New Nationalism regards the executive power
as the steward of the public welfare." He would thus
not only wipe out those boundary lines within which
the States have certain rights, but he would also re
duce the independence of the legislative and judicial
departments, subordinating them both to that of the
executive. If the American people wish a govern
ment that is representative and constitutional, they
can never tolerate such a plan.
Mr. Roosevelt would make himself “the Steward
of the Public Welfare.” It was Oliver Cromwell
who said, "Do not make me a king, for then my
hands will be tied by all the laws which define i.*e
duties of that office; but make me director of the
commonwealth and then I can do what I please:’
How singularly alike are these two pleas: the one of
an English dictator three centuries ago, the other of
a would-be American dictator today!
Mr. Roosevelt would be, in effect, Lord Protector
of the United States. The peril of such an ambition
is in no wise tempered by his avowed devotion to
the public welfare, or his implicit faith that he is
the personal agent of Providence itself, “the indis
pensable man.” It has been truly said that the gloss
of zeal for public service is always spread over acts
of oppression and the people are sometimes made to
consider as a brilliant exertion or energy in their
favor that which, when viewed in its true light, would
be found a fatal blow to their rights. "In no govern
ment is this effect so easily produced as in a free
republic; party spirit, inseparable from its existence,
aids the illusion and a popular leader may - • al
lowed in many instances impunity and sometimes re
warded with applause for acts which would make a
tyrant tremble on his throne.”
We need no fear that American citizenship will'
brook an open autocracy, but it is the part of good
sense and patriotism to deal promptly and decisively
with autocratic tendencies. Certainly It behooves us
to preserve those laws and precedents by which the
truly representative character of the government is
maintained. Because he defies one of the greatest of
these precedents, because he would override tne most
important of these laws, because he stands for abso
lutism as against real Democracy and for government
by a man as against government by laws, Mr. Roose
velt is unsafe and unsound. <
Os all sections of the country, there is none where
his policy of executve usurpation will find a more
emphatic rejection than in the Soutu. Even if he
were not a reactionary on the tariff issue, even if he
had not antagonized Southern sentiment on the
question, even if he were not the enemy of State
rights, the fact that he has trampled the third-term
precedent in an effort to satisfy his personal ambi
tion would suffice to bar him from any political con
sideration at the hands of the Southern people.
HELP THE CORN SHOW.
The banks comprising the Atlanta Clearing House
Association have subscribed generously to the South
ern Corn Show, which is to be held this autumn in
the Auditorium-Armory. Their example, it is to be
hoped, will stimulate other groups of business men
to support this worthy and fruitful enterprise. The
merchants and manufacturers and, Indeed, every one
who is interested in the upbuilding of the city and
the State can render no more practical service to
themselves and their community than to aid in In
creasing the volume and the value of Georgia's food
products.
This is one of the great objects of the Southern
Corn Show, an enterprise which was conceived by
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and projeewu. for
the first time last year with highly encouraging re
sults. The exposition brought to the city hundreds
of visitors, many of whom were the boys who are
members of the county Corn L-übs. The saow did
much to footer interest in these cluus and to remind
taeir members that in the city or Atlanta they have
a stanch supporter of the important work in which
they are engaged.
Within the past twelvemonth the ranks of the
j-jys’ Corn clubs have almost uuubled. They -ave
Increased the State’s average acre yield of this staple
crop. They have brought new ideas and more effi
cient methods into our system < ’ agriculture. Tbelr
barvest season will be golden with results and bright
with omens for the future. These are things wortn
celebrating and it is one of -ue purposes of the
Southern Corn Show to do so. Let all good citizens
aid in making this event a distinctive success.
CHARLES S. BARRETT
It is a source of hearty satisfaction to the people
of Georgia that Mr. Charles S. Barrett of this State
has again leen chosen the national president of the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-o;»erative Union. He
was elected unanimously at the annual convention in
Chattanooga, no other name for the office being pre
sented to the assembly.
This is a tribute as well earned as it is distinctive.
For many seasons past, Mr. Barrett has applied to
the affairs of the Union the energy and the vision
of true leadership. He has made it a force for good
not only to its own members but also to the people
as a whole. He has made it an agency of education
and of social betterment; and this, he has been able
to accomplish through his ability to enlist the effort
and enthusiasm of the rank and file of its members
in beha’f of liberal and enlightened purposes.
There is no cause of more vital concern to the ‘
American people and to every department of our in
terests, whether they be commercial or'lndustrial or
agricultural, than the cause of the farm. It has been
truly said that the only enduring conquests are those
which are made with the plow. Certain it is that
the growth and proeperity of any State or Nation
depends finally upon the net value of the products
of its soil. We are, therefore, peculiarly indebted to
the institution or the man that strives effectively for
the improvement and the enrichment of farm condi
tions. Because it devotes itself to this work-a-day
ideal, the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Un
fbn deserves to succeed; and because he has shown
himself so capable and sincere in this work, Presi
dent Barrett is broadly entitled to the trust thafc has
been warded him «a«w. . , , ....
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912.
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
FROM GEORGIA DEMOCRATS
The Democrats of Georgia will raise fifty thou
sand dollars for the Wilson-Marshall fund.
This is the goal set at a meeting of fifty citizens
in Atlanta last Friday and, if the enthusiasm which
warmed that conference is a popular omen, the goal
will be passed and set forward to many thousands
more.
This meeting Mas called primarily for the purpose
of effecting an organization and of mapping out a
workmanly course to pursue. It accomplisued this
and more; for, the Democratic zeal that is now stir
ring the entire country took contagious hold of that
business council, with the result that more than
twenty-five hundred dollars was instantly sub
scribed.
This is a cheering start on the upward road, but
it is only a beginning. It is expected that the Demo
crats of Atlanta and Fulton county shall subscribe
not less than ten thousand dollars to the Deeds of
the national campaign; that an additional ten thou
sand shall come from the other cities of the State
and that the counties shall crown the work with a
ten thousand dollar donation of their own.
This will be an easy and a promptly finished task,
if each citizen and each community will render their
proportionate share of true patriotism. The one es
sential is that every Georgia D.enocrat shall become
a partner in this good enterprise for the common
interests, however small his subscription may be.
There was never a time with recent generations
when the 'outlook for Democratic success was so
clear and heartening as it is today; but, for that
very reason, the party needs to put forth its utmost
vigor that it may materialize its splendid oppor
tunity.
The financial demands of a nationwide campaign
are numerous and heavy. It is to the rank and file
of the people, and to them alone, that the Demo
cratic party looks for aid.
This is the people’s cause and, in a peculiarly
vital sense, it is Georgia’s cause. The success of the
national ticket will mean that for the first time in
more than half a century a statesman of Southern
birth will be President and it means that a native
Georgia family will preside in the White House.
Woodrow Wilson is himself of Georgia breeding and
his household is of our own people.
Let every city and every county in the State be
gin forthwith to carry into effect the businesslike
plans of organization that have been designed. Let
every Georgian do his duty to the cause of Democ
racy and to the prestige of his commonwealth.
FARMS AND BUSINESS
The bankers of Kentucky, according to the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, are planning to lend u—or
ganized influence to a movement for better farming
in that State.
Certainly, there is no cause which should more
keenly enlist the interest of business men in general
than that of progressive agriculture; for, after all,
it is upon the products of the soil that every depart
ment of commerce and industry depends.
This truth is coming home to alert manufactur
ers and bankers and merchants and railreads the
country over. It is an interesting circumstance that
in Georgia business men and business organizations
are joining heartily in the movement to improve
farm conditicns.
Boards of trade and chambers of commerce are
realizing that one of the surest means to promote
the growth of their towns and cities is to help in
upbuilding the adjacent country.
Merchants are realizing that good crops mean
good trade and that whatever safeguards the inter
ests of the farm is to their own advantage.
Railroads are awkening to the fact that they have
a responsiblity as well as an opportunity In develop
ing the country their lines traverse; and, so, they
are establishing experiment farms and are sending
forth educational trains.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has been a
leader in constructive work of this character.
Through its influence a number of fruitful confer
ences have been held to protect the state’s crops
against destructive insects. It has establisheu the
Southern Corn Show and only a few nays ago its en
terprise in this regard was supported by a liberal
contribution from the members of the Atlanta Clear
ing House association.
This is the kind of work that will quicken the
growth of every community In Georgia because it
makes for the permanent growth of the State as a
whole.
Summer is dead, but it was awfully alive the first
few days of September.
As long as pig iron soars and cotton isn’t heavy
there is hope for the country.
woman judges the illness of her husband by the
l'uss he makes about it
The interval between drinks seems to be the
issue again in old Maine.
Editorials in Brief
But, of course, wiu- such a big demand for steel
at increasing prices the Steel Trust can’t devote all
of its time to third-term politics—lndianapolis News.
“They are furnishing us with more ammunition
for the war chest,” says T. R., speaking of the Pen
rose-Standard Oil mixup. Still, there are more pleas
ant ways of receiving ammunition than having ic
fired at you.—New York Evening Sun.
Governor Johnson says be Mould rather go to
defeat with the Third-Termer than win with any other
man. Yes, ye; that’s all right, Governor; but it’s a
very unpleasant sight. Pull down the blinds. The
critter’s eyes are sot—New York Evening Telegram.
A St. Paul church worker says the automobile
has done more for sin than any one thing. However,
the self-starters have materially reduced the output
of cusswords.— St. Paul Pioneer Press.
It is terrible irony that the one man in public
life who ha& been the readiest to befoul the reputa
tion of his opponents and to asperse their veracity
on the slightest pretexts should now be forced to
fight with all his might and main in what appears
to be> futile effort to repel a definite charge of men
dacity, combined with the sort of hypocrisy that Is
peculiarly repulsive to all upstanding and square
dealing menz-fhUadelphia Public Ledger,
Georgia Teachers to Aid
Woodrow Wilson Fund
Dr. Clarence J. Owens, chairman ot the National
Teachers’ Woodrow Wilson Campaign Fund Commit
tee, has appointed as vice president of this commit
tee for the state of Georgia, Prof. J. T. Derry who.
for thirty-five years, has been a teacher and profes
sor in the leading educational inftltutions of the
state. It is an interesting circumstance that while
principal of an English and classical high school at
Augusta, Professor Derry taught Woodrow Wilson
for two years.
Professor Derry will immediately begin the work
of organising an active Woodrow Wilson club among
the teachers of Georgia. In this connection he maxes
the following announcement which will be of partic
ular interest to all teachers:
A nation-wide movement, the first of its kind
in history, to enlist the aid of the school teach
ers of the country to elect Governor Woodrow
Wilson to the presidency of the United States was
launched in Washington on or about August 20, .
1913, by the Wilson-Marshall Democratic associa
tion of the District of Columbia. The plan has
the official sanction of the Democratic National
committee.
The question has been asked "What need is
jthere for a campaign fund to secure Georgia’s
vote for Wilson and Marshall?” In answer we
reply that the Democrats are not being backed by
the millions of dollars of the great corporations,
but are trusting the patriotic people of the en
tire Union to furnish by contributions
the necessary funds for bearing the legitimate
expenses of a presidential campaign.
It is, therefore, earnestly urged that the teach
ers of Georgia, who are interested in the cause of
Democracy, forward, each, one dollar to J. T.
Derry, Assistant Commissioner of the Georgia De
partment of Commerce and Labor, State Capitol.
Atlanta. Ga., to b e used as a part of the campaign
fund.
The names of all teachers contributing will be
presented in an attractive form to Governor Wil
son at the close of the campaign. It is hoped
that each one thus contributing will make every
letter of the signature plain and legible, without
flourishes of any kind. Teachers of Georgia, I
still claim the honor of belonging to your noble
profession and will feel great pride in a liberal
response to the appeal thus made to yow to come
to th® h el P ot our whole country in this crisis
of her history.
JOSEPH T. DERRY.
Vice President for Georgia of the National Com
mittee of Teachers' Woodrow Wilson Campaign
Fund.
Pointed Paragraphs
Experience often teaches us that it isn’t worth
anything after we learn it.
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It is easier to go broke in a hurry than it is to
get rich quick. \
• • •
The average girl can love almost any one—ex
cept a stepfather.
• • •
Many a pretty woman is merely a bunch of pride,
pretense and practice.
■ • •
One way to hold a man’s Interest ia to take a mort
gage on hlg property.
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People who are crippled in the bead get less sym
pathy than any other cripples.
• • •
When a man does get even with another he ia
never satisfied until he gets a little more so.
■ • •
A woman has no business with a family if she
can't take something old and make it over into some
thing new.
• • •
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but if it’s a grinds-"
stone it takes the heart out of a boy who has to turn
it when he wants to go fishing.
• • •
When a dwelling burns down the family usually
manages to save everything except the things that
were worth saving.
• • •
Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to cultivate
the acquaintance of a chap that knows it all.
‘ “ I
Heredity never fails to work out in the matter cf
red hair, but it frequently tails down when it comes
to brain.
•• • 4
It is surprising how helpless some self-reliant peo
ple are when they come face to face with some in
significant trouble.
• • •
A silent man never has to eat his words.
• • •
Almost any little old restaurant can pose as a
chop house.
• • •
If you would keep your friends, let them keep
their money.
e e •
Some people seem to live a long time just to spite
other people.
• • •
The size of a dollar depends on whether it is com
ing or going.
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The Ragtime Muse
HERE IS THE EXPLANATION.
May, Evangeline and Sue. Floradene and Belle and
Myrt,
Maidens in the peekaboo, flopping hat and hobble
skirt,
‘ Alice, Mamie, Claribel—all you Adas and Lu-
ciles,
Clothed in skirts not overtlght, little hats and sanest
heels.
Is It summer drives us men to the mountain and
the shore?
Do w e long to see the heights, long to hear the bil
lows roar?
Do we seek those places to gaze off in the distance
blue?
Maybe some do, but I swear they’re exceptions if
they do. «
Who would care to watch the waves rush to dash
high up the beach?
Who would dress in gladsome duds and parade that
sandy reach?
Who Would take a staXf and climb up the sky-high
mountain peak?
Who would save a year to go on vacation for a
week?
Who would choose his ties with care, spend a day se
lecting socks
Just to scramble out alone on a bunch of wav e wash
ed rocks?
It there were no Alice there, no Evangeline or
Myrt,
Who would pose beside the sea bound up in a hard
boiled shirt?
Kay, 'tis not the waves that call. Nay, ’tis not the
mountain height.
Sunsets and sunrises pall; only gleeful eyvs
alight
With the joy of being young make the sea at all
worth whila;
Men don’t climb to mountain tops for the climb, bi t
for a smile.
Mabel, Floradene and Sue. Isabel, Lucile and
Marne.
Mountain height and storm flung seas without you
were more than tame.
It is just for you we chase aJI* 1 the year the nTmble
sou— '
We'd want no week by the shore were it not a week
by joul
MODERN ILLUSTRATION
Photo Engraving Processes.
By Frederic J. Haskin
The development of the photo engraving
more than any other one thing, has made possible ths
wonderful illustrations which now embellish even ths
cheaper classes of
Including the daily newspapers!
This came into general use in
the early nineties and is
continually improved. With
the increased number of half
tones and their Improved qual
ity as used in the magazined
came a reduction in the use oil
wood engravings and other 1
kinds of illustrations which
had previously been in vogue.
The half tone
through the mechanical means
of its construction is necessa
rily true to the original object*
In the way, as in many others**
it is a long step in advance w
over earlier methods of Illas-"
tration which depended entire-,
ly upon the skill of the hand
• • •
With the improvement in quality also came a great
reduction in price, a full page half tone in a magazine
costing from a tenth to a fifth of the price of a fairly!
good wood engraving. The process of photo-engrav-4
Ing includes two branches—the half tone and the llni
engraving, which is known also as the zinc etching.
• • •
The half-tone process resulted from experiments hy,
Frederic J. Ives, of Philadelphia, who made the dis
coveries leading up to it when he was in charge of
the photographic laboratory of the Cornell University
in 1881. The name of this branch of photo-engravink
is in away descriptive of the process, inasmuch as it
brings out by chemical and mechanical methods thd
various gradations of light and shade, or tone, of the
photograph or painting which is the subject of repro
duction. Ives convolved the idea of breaking up the
surface of the picture into iplnute dots and lines,
which in that portion to print dark should be heavier
than in the portions to be in the lighter tones. This
he accomplished by the invention of the half-tone
screen. This screen is of glass, there being two
pieces of plate glass folded over and cemented to-i
gether, each piece of glass, however, having been
ruled with a diamond point diagonally across its sur
face to a slight depth at intervals equal to the thick
ness of the ruled lines. After the surface of the
plate has ruled as indicated the lines are filled ia
with an opaque substance, so that when folded I©J
gether as stated, the effect upon looking through it IS
ol a series of cross lines with minute transparent
openings between them- This screen Is Inserted in
the plate holder of the camera used in process work.
Immediately in front of the sensitized plate upon
which the negative is to be made. The result is that!
a reproduction of the screen appears upon the nega
tive. as well as the picture which is to be repro
duced.
• e e
If, for instance, a landscape is the subject for re
production, the high light effect would predominate in
the sky of the picture, and where the sky appears in
the photograph, because of the density of the light
reflected from it through the lens of the camera on
the sensitized plate, a halation occurs around the light
admittted through the openings in the screen, so that
the line effect of it is destroyed and a series of
small dots will appear in the resulting half-tone. Cor
respondingly, in the dark portion of the picture re
flecting but a small amount of light the line effect of a
the screen is reproduced or else entirely lost in the
resulting half-tone, thus leaving a substantial and
solid, or nearly solid, surface in the resulting printing
plate. This screen is, as will readily be observed*
the key to the process, for without it merely a picturs
could be taken, that would have no qualities front
which satisfactory etching could be done. In order to
adapt the process to various grades of paper, ths
scr&ens are ruled with lines of varying coarseness,
running, for ordinary newspaper work, from 85 tti
100 lines to the inch; for ordinary super-calendered
paper .about 120 lines to the inch; and for coated
paper, from 133 to 175 lines to the inch.
• e e
In the photographic part of the process In bothl
the half-tone and line branches the negative that is
made from the copy is of the wet plate variety now
almost obsolete for any other purpose. It is because
of the fact that the black parts of the copy are re
produced in the negative in an absolutely transparent
line, whereas in dry plate photography a thin base!
appears over the line, and to an extent would inter
fere with perfect etching. After the negative has been 1
made from the copy under consideration, it is coated!
with a solution of liquid rubber and collodion, rad
after drying for a few minutes it is placed in a bath,
of acetic acid, which enables the workman to remove 1
the film, now transposed into a thin rubber mem-J
brane, which is then transferred to a sheet of plats
glass usually about 15 by 18 inches in size, enough*
different negatives being placed upon this glass to
allow the workman to handle them in a wholesale
manner. After these negatives have been properly
squared up to the exact size of the required cut they!
are ready for printing on the sheet of metal upon
which they are to be etched. In the half-tone process
this metal consists of copper the surface of which r.ae
been coated with a sensitized solution. The nega
tive is placed in a printing frame and the copper laid
sac« down upon it, and by action of sunlight or arc
electric light a print is made on the metal in practic
ally the same manner that the gallery photographer
prints his negative upon the sensitized paper.
• • •
The line engraving is naturally done in the same
manner as the half-tone, except as to detail. Instead
of etching in sequlchlorlde of iron the zinc plate,
upon which the line engraving has been printed, is
etched in nitric acid, that chemical being better
adapted to the etching of zinc plates. In line en
graving it is necessary to cut the spaces between
lines to a greater depth than has appeared through
the etching process, and this is accomplished byj
routing between the lines on a machine that carries H
what is merely a movable drill. ,
• • •
The best grade of half-tone work always is etched l .
upon copper, whereas line work is almost Invariably
etched in zinc, for the reason that zinc suffices for
the line process and has the advantage of being a
much cheaper metal.
ONE THING FREE
BY WALT MASON
(Copyrlsbt. lAI2, by George Matthew Adana.)
The sinful trusts, which scheme together, all mun
dane things to own. can’t get their talons on the.
weather—that they must leave'
alone. Oh, nearly all life’s nee-,
essaries cost so they make us
bawl, but one great blessing)
never varies—th* weather’s free
to all! No man’s so poor he
cannot wallow in weather day
by day; he knows that in the
days to follow, ’twill be the
same old way. The trusts.)
those- grasping, soulless var-i
.mints, may boss the universe,;
may rule the price of grub and
garments, of cradle artd of*
hearse, may raise the price ofj
r W.
Ml''
shredded heather, flaked wheat and boneset tea. but
they must keep hands off the weather—that blessing
still is free! The trusts have piped our drinking wa
ter (I hope the piping busts!), the hat you purchase
for your daughter is sent forth by the trusts; the
coal you burn, the oil, the kindling, are trust con* i
trolled, my friend; what wonder that your wad 1*
dwindling, your patience near an end! The trusts
have raised the tax on leather until you have BP, w
shoes, and all that’s left you is the weather, to com
fort and amuse. My indignation—l oan’t rhyme, -It.—•
stirs all ray soul, by jing, the while I All myself with;
climate, and try to dance and aingl
