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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLAJTTA, GA.. 5 JJOXTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Post office as MaH Matter of the Second Class. JAMBS *. GRAT, President ana Bdltor. SUBBCBXPTIOX PRICE Twelve months Six months Three months :5c The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for earl It son tains 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 the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice Liberal com mission allowed Outfit free. Write to R. R. BRAD LEY. Circulation Dept. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling reprcr sentatlves. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. 'By I I ‘ renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. Tn ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address If on a I route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with ! | back numbers. Remittances shculd be sent by postal order or registered mall Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SF.MI-WEEKLT JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. GEORGIA SHOULD JOIN IN THE PANAMA EXPOSITION Through the Panama exposition, which is to be I held at San Francisco in 1915, Georgia has a singu ■ Uarly fertile opportunity to call the world’s attention to her vast and inviting resources. In scope and exposition will be E ’truly international. It is to celebrate the completion ®f an enterprise that will affecj the whole world's F. commerce and that will prove especially enriching to the trade of the Southern States. It will attract 5 Tisitors from every quarter of the Union, from Cen- I tral and South America, from Europe and even from the far away lands of the Orient What better means of publicity could a State hud than to place a F creditable display of its products and industries at b such an exposition? There appears elsewhere in today’s Journal an in ll teresting article by Mr. S. P. Jones who discusses somewhat in detail the advantages that would accrue to Georgia by making an exhibit at San Francisco I ‘in 1915. Mr. Jones was formerly assistant State | Geologist of Georgia and recently assistant State Geologist for New Jersey. He has had extraordi r nary experience in great expositions and is well in formed on the Panama Canal and the trade oppor *' tunities it will unfold for the South. As he suggests, the producers and manufacturers and particularly the investors who visit the Panama exposition will be keenly interested in seeing the products and the resources of various sections. They will form their opinions of the different States very largely from the San Francisco exhibits. Thus the capitalist will bJ interested and the homeseeker will f Shape his purpose. Should Georgia not be represented at such a gatl»- ■ ering place of national and international activity, she would miss one of the richest opportunities of her history. It behooves our people to see to it that their State's wondrous inducement to settlers and to Investors are adequately displayed at the great ex i position. The legislature at its lasi session adopted a resolu tion appointing for this purpose a commission to be •composed of the State geologist, the State commis loner of agriculture and a third person to be named bye Governor. The same resolution provided that a commissioner should be appointed in each congres sional district and that this commission, after inves tigating the entire matter should report to the next •ession of the General Assembly upon the advis ability of a Georgia exhibit at San Francisco. The plan thus originated should be passed to definite and fruitful completion. Not only should the State make a sufficient appropriation, which will un doubtedly prove a sound investment, but the Geor gia public should do all within its power to make (the Stale's exhibit a success. The manufacturers, the railroads, the real estate men, the farmers, the boards of trade and, indeed, every one interested in his own and the confinon ‘ -wealth's advancement, should join heartily in this en | terprise. No part of the Union has more abundant or ,snore varied resources than Georgia. Our purpose should be to attract the notice of the nation and of the world to this natural treasure in order that it may be developed and turned to practical account. A creditable Georgia exhibit at the Panama ex position will undoubtedly bring us new investments and new settlers and will place the State directly in the current of that bounteous development which is to follow the opening of the great canal. THE CANAL CONFERENCE. It is particularly pleasing to learn that Mr. John v , Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union, B will be a visitor and speaker at the Panama Canal Conference which is to be held in Atlanta December the tenth and eleventh. Mr. Barrett is perhaps the most thoroughly in formed man in the United States on commercial conditions in Central and South America. He knows the detailed needs and Interests of those countries and the surest means by which our own shippers and merchants and manufacturers can profit from the new trade opportunities which the opening of the I ■Canal will unfold. His address will be exceptionally valuable to the South, and will amply repay the business leaders of this section for a trip to hear it. The conference has as its chief aim the awakening and organization of a practical interest on the part of Southern cities in the Canal question. The prospect of a large (Attendance and of much definite good is bright DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY. The Democrats have won a victory that should be as sobering as it was brilliant. Beyond the day of triumph stretch the years of toil, and it is to these that the party must now look with' thoughtful pur pose. A nation that has given much in confidence will expect much in performance. Never before have the American people spoken so unnitedly as they did in last week's election. Political landmarks perished, the old boundaries of North and South, of East and West were swept aw*ay and the common country joined in committing its interests to a Democratic President, a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate. Surely, power so complete as this should be faithfully and wisely used; and it must be, if the party is to hold the trust it has won. Either timidity or rashness on the part of the ad ministration that is to take charge of the government next March would prove fatal to this hope. Democ racy is pledged to certain practical reforms, notably to tariff revision and to a putting-down of those vast and illegal alliance?, monopolies as they are com monly called, that destroy the natural rights of trade. These promises must be squarely kept, but it is equally important that they be carried out in delib erate and workmanly fashion, not after the manner of pellmell revolutionists. The Republican system of protective tariff is a product of long years of privilege and greed. It has nurtured, if indeed, it has not created the tyrannous trusts. It has closed and clinched the bargain between corrupt business and corrupt politics. It has arti ficially raised the cost of living that now burdens almost every household in the land. How clearly the people realize these evils is shown by the fact that they repudiated both I'aft and Roosevelt largely be cause neither of them nor their respective parties offered any hope for tariff ’•eform. The Democrats, therefore, can have no hesitancy as to the principle on which they are to act but, at the sfime time, it behooves them to approach their task with prudence and, as Governor Wilson has said, “by such avenues, by such stages and at such a pace as will be consistent with the safety and the sta bility of the country’s business.” A tariff system which has developed through long decades and which is interwoven with our industrial life could not be torn recklessly asunder without grave injury to honest business. Violent or ill con sidered steps would serve omy to defeat the true ends of tariff reform and to destroy the nation’s trust in Democratic ability. Those schedules that are pal pably unjust, that raise the cost of clothing and food and crush wholesome competition should be dealt with first;' and thus, with foresight and caution, every schedule that now fosters monopoly can be re vised until finally there will be no favoritism to any group of special interests, but simply a broad rule of justice and of equal opportunity for all interests. Likewise in dealing with the trust evil, the Demo cratic program should be soberly constructive. A spirit of vindictiveness, a policy of headlong assault will avail nothing. The problem is one of readjust ment, the task is to set commerce free and to re store economic rights in order that human rights may be untrammelled. The great mission and the great opportunity of the Democratic party is to make business better by unclogging its channels and by clearing the way for Individual initiative and enterprise. Hence the party’s purpose should be attuned to Governor Wilson’s statement issued im mediately after the election: “No man whose business is conducted with out violating the rights of free competition and • without private understandings and secret al liances against the principle of our law and the policy of all wholesomh commerce need fear either interference or embarrassment from the Administration. Our hope and purpose are now to bring all the forces of the country into active and intelligent co-operation add to give to our prosperity a freshness and a confidence such as if has not had in our time." In the recent campaign the people of the United States chose with rare deliberateness among three different policies of government. They rejected the one extreme of Standpat Republicanism and the other extreme of Rooseveltism. They chose Democ racy because they believed that under its leaders and Its principles, the nation would be freed from old tyrannies and at the same time spared from new perils. They were desperately tired of the alliance be tween the Government and Special But they were nonetheless apprehensive of a man and a move ment that threatened to destroy their free institu tions. They wished a change, a thoroughgoing change, but they also wished it to be accomplished through orderly and constitutional means. They were unwilling to entrust their affairs to a party that stood for stagnation and equally unwilling to hand over their interests to political adventurers who were seeking new and violent means to perform old and simple duties. Democracy was victorious, and overwhelmingly so, because it beaconed away of escape from both these 'dangers; because it stood for freedom and security, sor x progress and construction. We may not only hope, we may confidently believe that the party will prove worthy of its trust and will go forward without rashness or fear; that it will keep its faith with the people by adhering stanchly to its purpose and that it will use its great gift of power, regardful, as Woodrow Wilson has said, “of every interest, the little as well as the big, because con nected with every interest by sympathy and compre hension, soberly determined to obey the voice of thoughtful men everywhere by a carefully consid ered course of moderate, yet courageous reform.” LIFE IS GROWING LONGER. Despite all we hear of the killing pace of modern life, it seems that more and more folk are reaching, or may hope to reach, the age of "the lean and slip pered Pantaloone.” Certain it is that the average span of human life is considerably longer than it was a few centuries or even a few generations ago; and each decade adds to its expectancy. This average is still lamentably low. In 1909 it stood at thirty-eight and eight-tenths years, but in 1908 it was only thirty-seven and nine-tenths; and within the same period the average term of what we call old age Advanced a year. Any one who cares for these curious bits of human history that drift into the news of the day must have been impressed by the number of octogenarians who figure in head lines. Every little while we hear of them dancing at the marriage feast of a great-great-grand-daughter or playing leap-frog as heartily as Mr. Pickwick him self at Dingley Dell. Some time ago a London Journal gravely an nounced that at sixty a man of these times Is too young to be entrusted with very responsible duties; it went on to cite the facts that the new Lord Mayor was eighty-one, that Thomas Hardy had just written a new play at seventy-three, that the Earl of Hals- THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1912. bury, in his eighty-seventh year, had been chosen a leader in Parliament and that the winner of the season’s greatest swimming race was an athlete of five and seventy. Equally striking instances may be gathered in America. Uncle Jo Cannon, who may be anywhere between seventy-six and qighty, has lived to see his own defeat in the Danville district. Cardinal Gib bons is as apparently as vigorous at seventy-eight as he was a quarter of a century ago. Andrew Carnegie is still building libraries at and Dr. Eliot recently completed a world tour on the verge of four score years. The statisticians say that theoretically a person of good health and of Average physical development is due to live eighty-three years. The fact that the average term of life is now only about thirty-nine years is ascribed largely to deaths froni infantile diseases. It is in this particular field that medical science is now making remarkable progress. At. the same time, the means of curing and preventing dis ease are continually becoming oetter known and are effective. These conditions, togetner with the con stant advance in sanitary regulations, should result in an ever-increasing gain in the length of human life. , Talk about the Terrible Turk,‘ it’s the Terrified Turk, z Still, an ex-president can always land some kind of a job. WHEN CONSTANTINOPLE FALLS With the fall of Constantinople daily expected, the Balkan situation becomes a darker and darker riddle for European diplomacy. The much-talked-of intervention by the larger powers has been forestalled by the Porte’s suit for peace directly with the allies. So long as Turkey kept up a show of resistance, there was an oppor tunity for Austria or a group of nations to step in with terms of mediation. But having failed to do so when Turkey appealed to them on this ground, their only part for the immediate present a'; least must be that of interested bystanders. Turkey declared war without waiting for a formal declaration from the Balkan States. Within little more than a fortnight she has been beaten to her knees. Bulgaria and her allies have won a fair and opulent victory. They cannot be expected to re nounce its -fruits. Yet is is scarcely conceivable that Austria will consent to a division of European Turkey without doing her utmost to get a share of the spoils. To what complications this may lead is beyond prediction. The recent statement of Premier Asquith, of England, that “the victors must not be robbed of the winnings that cost them so dearly” is significant; as is also the manifest determination of the Balkan States to press their advantage and hold what they have earned through valor and sacrifice. Evidently, the map of that portion of Europe is to be made over; but just what the boundaries and colors will be is as yet a mystery. c President Taft continues to bust trusts in the same harmless old way. v • President Taft will at least escape responsibility during the next four years. '* - ■ - MEXICO STILL IN THE GAME. So completely has the Balkan fight eclipsed all other wars of the time that we well-nigh forget the troubles of our peppery neighbor, Mexico. But the Mexicans are none the less busy at their old game. Every few days a battle is staged with much ado, though interestingly enough the loss of life and gunpowder is generally slight. The more recent reports indicate teat just now the Madero forces, representing the established gov ernment, have the upper hand aqd that they are likely to hold it. On Friday the Zapatista rebels suffered a severe defeat from a defacement of regular troops in a fight around Cuernavaca, the capital of the State of More los. This engagement lasted for four days, the' in surrectos finally retreating pellmell to the mountain wildernesses. Following as it does closely upon the capture of Felix Diaz, this victory should do much to strength the government’s cause. Orozco and his marauding bands are still making trouble, but they have no ap parent hope of permanent supplies. The likelihood is that they will soon disperse, fragment by frag ment and be forgotten. President Madero has had one ordeal after an other from the outset of his administration. Though he has appeared faltering at times and at others dangerously near downfall, he has held the country together and done so without resorting to Diaz’ metlWAls. There is reason to hope that when the present outbreaks are put dowA, as they promise to be in the future, Mexico will enjoy a period of qujetudeand business development. The Balkan situation makes It unsafe as yet to liquidate any of our bills. Now that Colonel Roosevelt Is back on the job as editor, his troubles with the office boy will begin. M COMBS, M’A/DOO AND PENCE. Democracy’s triumph is not to be credited to any one group of States or to any one class of people. It is a victory in which the whole country shares, <n which the nation uecomes united as never before and to which the great rank and file of 'American cit izenship contributed. When this has be:n said, how ever, the South may justly congratulate itself on its own distinctive ‘part in a national achievement. Es pecially pleasing is the fact that three men native to this section played leading roles in the manage ment of the Democratic campaign. They are Na tional Chairman William F. McCombs, whose home State is Arkansas; his assistant, Thomas J. Pence, of North Carolina; and William G. McAdoo, whom Georgia is proud to claim as her own. Mr. McAdoo was vice chairman of the campaign committee and during the season of Mr. McCombs’ illness was directly in charge. « These gentlemen did faithful and masterly service in directing the Wilson campaign. To each of them, the entire country lifts its hat. If you want a man to deliver the goods, employ one who doesn’t talk. We wake up to find the usual coal “famine” staring at us from the papers. Ah, well, that means the price of coal is going to be boosted a little—and just when, we were about to order a ton, too. THE JOURNAL IN THE WILSON CAMPAIGN THE COMMERCE OBSERVER. PAUL T. HARBER, > Editor and Publisher. Commerce, Ga., Nov. 6, 1912. Editor The Journal: Whatever glory and success comes to the Demo cratic party. The Atlanta Journal deserves'great credit for its excellent work in behalf of the cause which it has represented so effectively. I have watched your editorials and the news col umns closely and I want to express to you my sincere appreciation of your splendid efforts which contrib uted so much to the party's success in the election of yesterday. The state and the nation is benefited beyond meas ure by a clean,, aggressive and loyal newspaper li,ce The Journal, and I wish to express to you, in this hour of" rejoicing, my congratulations and thanks for yotir great work and loyalty. Fraternally, •/ z PAUL T. HARBER. New York, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1912. Editor The Journal: There has been forwarded to me a copy of your Journal of November 1, and I have read with great interest the editorial,. entitled "And Yet, He Seeks Votes in Georgia!” I am a New York business man and interested in Re publican politics in this state and nation, yet I wish to compliment you on this materful editorial. My only regret is that I did not have a few thousand copies of this editorial before election. The man whom you write about has forgotten his Anglo-Saxon ideals, not only in the south, but in the north, as treachery is no part of the true Anglo-Saxon spirit. I hope that your Journal will always be able to support the Anglo- Saxon ideal and a high type of citizenship, irrespective of party lines. We want no president of this country who will not support the well principles of honor and justice. Again let me congratulate you on your editorial. I am, Very truly yours, CHARLES iviERWIN TURNER, of New York. f Clay top, Ga., Nov. 7, 1912. Mountain View Hotel. Editor The Journal: Dear Mr. Gray: The only words this Atlantiain can find for our great victory are, "thank God.” I notice the pie is being sliced up for Wilson sup porters. If the size of the pie is to be commensurate with the service rendered, where could they find a big enough pie for The Journal workers? I wish, instead, I had a laurel wreath for the bril liant workers on The Atlanta Journal, who made so splendid a fight in our Democratic victory. Sincerely yours, JULIA - O’KEEFE NELSON. Timely Comment Turkey certainly can stand a lot of basting.— Syracuse Post Standard. The Sick Man of Europe ought to move to Asia for his health.—£levz York Evening Sun. The fact that the outbreak of war in the Balkans may prevent the holding of a balloon race from Paris is another proof that the world is getting too crowded for uninterrupted fun.—New York World. -■■■■--I.- ■ » A New York newspaper cabled its Berlin corre spondent: “Keep war news down. World’s series now on.” That may have struck the Berlinians as strange, but not a New Yorker. —Nashville Ten nessean. Today and Its Enemies By Dr. Frank Crane There are two great enemies to present enjoyment. Today, we might say, full of primal waves of joy which thrill ever through the world. Today stands crucified between two thieves. Tomorrow and Yesterday. Out of yesterday come re morse and regret. Out ‘of mem ory rise the foul mists to ob scure today’s sun. Alas! “It might have been!" also "What a fool I was! likewise "Why did it ever happen?” Now. the one good thing about the past'is that it is past, that it is there and not here. And that is the one thing which we forget. On second thought, there is another good quality in the past, which is that a past mistake or sorrow is just as useful a pedes tal on which to erect today’s joy as a past pleasure would have J.* '*’■ • w\ ■ J*fe A<fe <■;■ SFjWw been—often better. It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways; and if the lugubrious wail of Tennyson be true that—■ Sorrow’s crown of sorrow Is remembering the happier days, it ought also to be true that joy’s crown of joy is remembering worse days. The other thief is Tomorrow. From there come apprehension, foreboding, and all that pestiferous crew of mental pirates. But what’s the use? If ca lamity is coming we will be all the better prepared to meet it if we have kept up our nerve by joy tsday than if we have worn our souls out fighting the shad ows of the approaching monster. Today is a priceless gift. It is all that is mine. It came baptized with the dews and consecrated with the rose clouds of dawn; it spreads its banner of glory twelve long hours in .the sky, and at night it fades into starry splendor in sunset hues more gor geous than those of daybreak. It is the immediate jewel of all living creatures. It is required of me only to take it. Why postpone life? My mother once had a hired girl whom she found one afternoon sitting by the kitchen window weeping and wiping her eyes with her apron. "Whais the matter, Mary?” asked mother. "Oh, I dunno. I was just sittin’ here athinkin’.” “What were you thinking of to make you cry?” "O, I dunno. I got my work all done and the kitchen all redded up, you know, and I just set down here, and I didn’t have nothing else to do. and I got to thinkin’.” “But what about?;’ "O, I dunno. I just was thinkin’ what if I was married, and what if I had a little baby, and what if I took the little baby down cellar with me to git some molasses, and what if I sot the little baby <Jown on the floor and turned around to draw the molasses out of she bar’l, and what if there was a big ham hangin’ right over the little baby, and what if the string broke and the ham fell down and—killed —the —little —baby!” I TODAY. This little strip of light ’Twixt night and night Le. me keep bright Today! And let no fumes of yesterday Nor shadows of tomorrow Bedim with sorrow Today! I take this gift of heaven As simple as ’tis given; And if tomorrow shall be sad. Or never come at all, I’ve had At least Today! I National Consumers’ League j By Frederic J. Haskin Did you ever think of the risk you run in using, articles made in factories or by people who work and live under unsanitary conditions, often suffering from had been made by a woman working In her tenement home, where three of her children were ill with scar- ■ let fever. One of them died during the period when i she wag at work upon these little dresses. When the; death occurred the board of health took up the mat ter and an investigation was made, but the sewing) upon which the woman depended for her living was 1 smuggled out and the corftagion carried to the home l of every purchaser and risked by each salesperson who handled them in the store. • a • Because of thousands of incidents similar to this, by which the health of the consumer is constantly be ing risked, a number of men and women some twelve years ago organized the Consumers’ league, having for its object the securing of "adequate Investigation of the conditions under which goods are made, in or der to distinguish in favor of goods made in a well ordered factory.” Since the majority of employers are almost helpless to maintain a high standard as to wages, hour s and working conditions unless Aistained by the co-operation of consumers, the Consumers’ league also proposes to educate public opinion and to, endeavor to direct its force so as to promote better conditions among the workers, thereby securing to the consumer exemption from the dangers attending un wholesome conditions. The league also endeavors to. promote legislation tending to improve industrial con ditions, in recognition of the fact that the Interests, of the community demand that all workers should re ceive a fair living wage, that the goods should be produced under sanitary conditions and that the re sponsibility for some of the worst evils from which the producers suffer rests with the consumer who seeks the cheapest markets regardless of how the cheapness is brought about. • • • In this way the Consumers’ league stands for the best interests of the purchaser and the workers, and a continuous campaign of education is being carried on i throughout the country. Through the influence of the league, sweat shops and home work under im-, proper conditions are being rapidly diminished each year and, while the conditions of the workers are be 'ing greatly improved, the consumer also is bene fited. • • • One of the first matters b ® taken up was the manufacture of women’s underwear, which had been an- especially sweated and unorganized trade. The league provided a label to those firms complying with, their requirements as to labor conditions. This label indicates that the factory laws of the state have been complied with, the goods have been made and! finished on premises approved by the league, no home, work being permitted, that there has been no over-’ time work, and that no children under sixteen have; been ■ The label is known from the Atlantic; to the Pacifc, and each day new demands are being made for it. Sometimes these demands come all the; way- across the continent. For Instance, the mer-> chants in Portland received so many demands for the labeled goods, that they appealed to a factory in Wor cester, Mass., to use it. Consequently, this factory’ asked the Consumers’ league to Inspect. its methods and grant a "white label.’’ The early attempts of the league to secure recog nition of the value of their label were most painstak ing. As soon as a local branch of the National Con sumers’ league was established in a community* its members immediately set about educating the mer chants to the value of the league label by going to the stores and asking repeatedly for goods bearing that label and refusing to look at any without It. The Bryn Mawr college girls were among the first to take the matter up, and their example is still being followed by the students in colleges and private schools, as well as women living in their own homes in towns in every state in the union. See When the league label was first put into service the members of the league in Bryn Mawr college or ganized into regular parties to make its purpose known to the Philadelphia stores. Two or three girls would go together into half a dozen different stores asking for clothing bearing the "white label.’’ It Was not in stock at first, and they would politely ex plain its use and refuse to accept any other goods. The girls would report the ground covered, and a few days later the same stores would be by asi other group of well dressed young lathes inquiring for the same label. Within three months the leading stores in Philadelphia were supplying goods bearing the “white label” and the credit of the demand was largerly due to the college girls. • • • The Consumers’ league has been active in enforc-, in ff existing law B tending to protect the workers in ’ all classes of factories, as well as to secure additional! laws. It is responsible for continuous investigations of many classes of Industries and the improvement of conditions. The legal efforts of the league already have won some notable victories and have added much to the strength of the labor unions. Two years ago a great victory was registered in the case of Curt 1 Miller vs. the State of Oregon. The new Oregon labor i law prohibiting the employment of women in facto-1 ries, mercantile establishments, etc., for longer than | een hours a day, was challenged by the proprietor of a' laundry. The case was carried through the courts of ■ Oregon up to the supreme court of the United States,; where the law was sustained by the dlcison of Jus tice Brewer. • • • The leagt# also has made a “white list” of stores i which come nearest to the standards and principles; of the organization. The stores upon this list pay i what is known as a living wage, give two weeks an-1 nual dismissal for three months, and extra pay for' overtime work. In realization of the fact that many I of the hardships imposed by the stores are caused by I the thoughtlessness of customers, the league has in-} augurated educational crusades in many towns urging t the women to shop early in the day. The hardships i of the Christmas rush have received the attention of' the Consumers’ league also, and in hundreds of cities • - a crusade against leaving the Christmas shopping un- ': til the week before Christmas is already under way. • • • The restrictions of the league against work done in , the home have seemed severe to those who do not un- 1 derstand conditions from which these restrictions 1 would protect them, but the investigations show that home work involves greater hardships upon the work er than work done in a well couducted factory. It renders possible the of small children to do work absolutely prohibited by the laws of most of the states, and there is no means of safeguarding the consumer from possible exposure to contagious diseases arising from conditions which would not bo tolerated in a factory entitled to use the white label. contagious diseases to which you are exposed in the use of the articles? It is natural for people to be careless of the dangers which they do not see. so the fashionable youth smokes his gold-tipped, hand-’ made cigarette oblivious of the! fact that it may have been made by a woman in the last stages of consumption, in a dir ty room, foul with the dis eased breath of other indi viduals. • • • A few years ago, a charitable woman bought some little wool en dresses and distributed them! among some poorer neighbors. A few weeks later an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out an>l it was found that the dresses
