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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATLANTA, GA., 5 MOBTB FOB3YTH ST.
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I Atlanta. Ga.
Thanksgiving Turkey will be no higher this year
—no lower, but still no higher.
STATE AID FOR GOOD ROADS ,
A state tax for the building of highways from
county seat to county seat throughout Georgia will
he contemplated by a measure which Representative
Minter Wimberly, of Bibb county, announces he will
Introduce before the Georgia legislature next sum
mer for enactment into law. Thia measure would
make one-fourth of one per cent of the state tax in
each county applicable exclusively to road construc
tion and maintenance upon a state-wide plan.
The Journal hopes that the majority of the in
coming legislature’s members will be predisposed to
favor such a measure as this, and that they will
consider it carefully and enact it into law if it be
soundly drawn.
The intent of it is in line with the policy which
The Journal has advocated day In and day out for
several years past—the policy of state participation
in road building, of state supervision and aid.
The time has passed when roads could be built
haphazard.
In the beginning, when the convicts were first
placed on the public roads, there were few highways
of any kind save in the larger counties; and any new
roads were better than the old ruts.
Now the state has reached that stage of road
building where expert supervision and planning are
*■
The measure which seeks to establish a state bu
reau of road building has failed of enactment so far
more because of apathy toward it than opposition
against it
Let the state bureau be created, and let an expe
rienced and an intelligent road builder be placed at
the head of it with authority to accomplish results.
Let Georgia give her aid in this nd a financial way
to the perfection of her counties’ good road work.
We know a lot of men who would be more success
ful if they would stay at home and send their wives.
A blase man is one who can’t be tempted because
there are no new brands of temptation for him to
yield to.
If a woman is anxious to see her husband as
other people see him she should induce him to run
for office, then read the opposition papers.
OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
One of the great constructive tasks that lies be
fore the Democratic administration of our country
is that of re-establishing our merchant marine. The
United States ensign has become so great a rarity
upon foreign seas as to be almost unknown there.
The responsibility lies with our government Re
strictions which could not be met have been imposed
by interests anxious that they remain unfulfilled.
This is one of the matters which has occupied the
close attention of the presidentelect for a number
of years past, and is a topic which he discussed dur
ing the recent campaign as belonging among the
most important issues of the party. President-elect
Wilson’s appreciation of its importance is shared by
many thoughtful men; and the country at large has
begun to realize that somehow the lack of a mer
chant marine has seriously affected our nation’s pros
perity; that it has reflected some influence, some
how, upon cost of living under our flag; and
that it must be a remedied condition before the Pan
ama canal is opened to traffic, lest our nation find
itself in the position of having provided a vast ben
efit for the rest of the world's commerce while it
excluded its own.
Congressman Oscar W. Underwood’s speech at
Birmingham the other day on this topic gives point
to the present adversion to IL
“The time has come when we must return to the
doctrine of our Democratic fathers and discriminate
in favor of American ships,’’ he is quoted as de
claring.
The discrimination now is the other way—against
American ships.
It is an evil situation. But it can be cured sim
ply. The removal of some existing restrictions that
look innocent but are deadly in effect, will give our
merchant marine a chance to restore itself without
subsidy and without other favor.
PESTILENCE WINS.
At the very gates of Constantinople the conquer
ing Bulgarians have stopped to parley with the
Turks for peace, say the dispatches.
The victory belongs to cholera.
A pestilence more powerful than either army,
and revelling in the conditions of war which made
of th<*hi its easy victims, seems to have fallen over
them like a pall and stopped the fighters.
Nearly five hundred yearse ago the Saracen drove
the Christian from Constantinople. Later the Turk
conquered the Saracen, and the crescent remained
supreme. Now, just as the cross is about to be
borne back in victory through the gates of the an
cient city, comes cholera to block its progress. The
Moslem and the Christian can stand each other’s
bullets and shells, but neither can battle success
fully against the invisible death that lurks in the
p’ague among them.
It was one of the satires of fate that the Turk
armies should develop the cholera, and that the Bul
garian armies driving them back should camp down
in the identical region which the Turks had infected
and left for their enemies to share.
It is also reported that, true to their nature, the
Turks have converted the Sofia mosque into a pest
house, that the invaders might not be able to hold
Christian ceremonials of thanksgiving there in case
they entered the city.
But for the cho.era, the Turk would have been
swept off the edge of Europe where he stands and
back into Asia whence he came.
There’s no real news, though, in the Information
that an armistice has been declared. The world
knew that fighting could not last more than a
few hours longer.
Interest now turns its attention to the aftermath
of the remarkable war.
Can the four little nations of the powerful Balkan
confederation reconcile their differences and stifle
their internal jealousies sufficiently to present a
solid front to the rest ot Europe?
And if they can and do, will Europe be able to
recognize their claims as victors upon the spoils
without becoming involved in a conflagration of war
in its own camps?
CHAIRMAN JOSEPH M. BROWN.
Governor Brown’u acceptance of the appointment
tendered him as chairman of the Atlanta chamber of
commerce committee of one hundred Democrats to
organize numerous and creditable representation
from Georgia at Washington on inauguration day,
reflects the earnestness with which the governor ex
presses his commendation of the patriotic movement.
The position of chairman of that committee is
going to be no mere honorary title. It will involve
work —for the task that the committee will have m
hand is a tremendous one, almost appalling in its
mass of detail. Every member of the committee,
from the chairman to the hundredth member, will
have to work in good seriousness. The Journal con
gratulates the chamber of commerce upon having
received the accep ..nee of Governor Brown; and it
congratulates Governor Brown upon his active in
terest in a great hour of Democracy.
GEORGIA’S APPLE CROP.
In Atlanta, last week, there was to be seen an exhi
bition of Georgia apples grown on the hills of Haber
sham and Rabun counties in the northeastern part of
the state. It was presented by private interests —
yet their display could not lose its public merit.
The apple display in Atlanta should have been
part of a big exposition of Georgia apples from every
part of the state where apples are grewn. This is
one of Georgia’s resources which has been left to
develop almost of itself without public spirit be
hind it
In Spokane, Washington, the other day, the fifth
“national” apple show in that section was opened,
amid the blowing of steam whistles and the ringing
of bells, by Governor Hay with a formal announce
ment that King Pip V had ascended the throne. Up
wards of 2,500,000 apples were in place in the expo
sition.
Yet Georgia’s possibilities as an apple state are
said to be greater than those of either Washington
or Oregon.
PHILOSOPHY OF COCKNEY MOSE
There is something more than ordinarily inter
esting in the unique offer that Cockney Mose, other
wise known as Jake Bergin, now serving a vagrancy
sentence in Milwaukee, has made to the state of
Wisconsin. Mose says that he’s getting old, his
friends are gone, and he’s tired of dodging the police.
He wants to exchange what little liberty his future
holds for a few extra favors and a life sentence in
the penitentiary.
Here are the extra favors that Mose wants in re
turn for the occasional liberty to which he would
surrender all claim: Five cigars a day, four daily
newspapers, six magazines, two extra cups of coffee
a day, one piece of pie, the privilege of sleeping by
an open window. He might share the papers and
magazines and open window with other convicts.
With the concession of these fancy trimmings, Mose
would be glad to have the Wisconsin state legisla
ture make a state convict of him for the rest of his
natural life.
"I was arrested the first time about twenty
years ago,” Mose is quoted as explaining. “Since
then I’ve been in and out of jail. I can’t get honest
work. Everybody knows me as a crook. I get about
three months liberty a year, as things go now. I
want to swap those three months for a few little
extras, and take a life sentence so I can pass the
rest of my days in comfort and peace. It’s a bar
gain for the state. They have me nine months of
the year anyway, and my plan would save them the
expense of catching me and trying me so often.”
Mose, known among criminals and police through
out the country, intimates that if Wisconsin doesn’t
“take him up” on his offer, there are other states
that might be glad of a chance. He mentions sev
eral of them, recalling former periods of acquaint
ance with their state prisons.
“It’s easy,” a Milwaukee policeman is quoted as
saying. “Let him try highway robbery. He’ll get
twenty-five years for it, and that’ll finish him.”
But Mose is offering to strike a bargain, not to
surrender all unconditionally.
“He should be examined as to his sanity,” a judge
of the Milwaukee municipal court is reported to have
remarked.
But it is not easy to agree with the judge.
Years ago, the law might have studied and cor
rected the peculiarities of Jacob Bergin, or Cockney
Mose.
Now he’s an old crook, and the law should com
promise with him for its own shortsight in the be
ginning.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1912.
Safe Hunting Rules
With the opening of the game season in Georgia,
the following, reprint is interesting of the “safe
rules,” compiled half a dozen years ago by H. A.
Surface, state economic zoologist of Pennsylvania. It
is said that the demand for printed copies of these
rules has never ceased and is renewed each year
with the advent of the season. Requests for copies
are reported by Professor Surface from all over the
county.. . j
There is nothing novel about Surface’s rules.
They merely set forth and emphasize common sense
methods of carrying and using a gun.
‘‘lf every one oberved these rules,” said Professor
Surface, “we'd have mighty few gunning accidents. 1
do not know that I ever heard of a hunting accident
which wag not due to direct violation of the ordinary
precautions herein set forth, and 1 have been waken
ing reports of accidents for a good many years.”
The rules are as follows:
“1. Always keep the gun pointed from yourself and
other persons.
“2. Carry a gun with the end pointed either up
ward, toward the sky, or downward, toward the
ground. Never sweep the horizon with it.
“3. In getting over logs or fences always see that
the gun is first put over and in a solid position, where
it will not fall. Then go to another place to climb
over, and pick up the weapon with the end pointing
where it should. /
“4. Never pull or draw a gun toward yourself by
the muzzle, especially in wagons, boats, over fences,
logs, etc.
“5. Do not load the gun until after leaving the
house, and draw the loads as soon as leaving the
hunting grounds.
“6. Never keep - loaded gun around the house
or tent, and do not leave a loaded weapon where it
may be knocked down by dogs or children.
“7. Do not carry the gun cocked excepting when
alert for the game to rise.
“8. Do not shoot into moving bushes or in the di
rection of a noise without being sure the desired game
i s there and seeing it for certainty. The movement
or nols e may be caused by sorrfte person or by domes
ticated stock.
“9. Watch the muzzle of the gun that no mud,
snow, or other material fills it; and do not load as
heavily with white or nitro powder as with black pow
der. This may prevent accidents from bursting.
“10. Do not start a fire in the woods without first
providing against its spreading, and do not leave it
burning under any circumstances.
“11. Do not wound game and leave it to suffer and
die of its injuries. Better to spend an hour searching
for a winged bird than to let it remain and suffer for
a day or two before relieved by a merciful death.
”12. Do not shoot protected birds or animals.. There
is a reason for protecting them. Find what it is and
you will agree that the law is generally correct In
giving them a protective season.
"13. If you are £oing for fun only, it is all right
to take inexperienced friends ,a well-filled lunch
basket, literature and a target, and go to the nearest
grove.
“14. If going for game, go alone or with experi
enced hunters only, carry only what is essential.
Hunt with the back to the sun, slowly and quietly,
and in such places and at such time of day as expe
rience has taught that the particular kind of gams
sought is to be found.
“15. Do not hunt for ‘anything.’ This generally
results in nothing. Different kinds of game are to
be found in different places and at varying times of
day, according to the species sought. Decide before
starting out as to the kind of game to be hunted and
the region to be visited.
“16. Ascertain if farms or premises are 'posted'
or hunting is forbidden, and keep out of tuoble by
either avoiding them or by asking the owner for per
mission to hunt on those portions where no damage
to livestock may result.
'"l7. If .tnces are knocked down in climbing over
them, take time to fix them up properly. Leave
gates and bars just as they were found. If open,
leave them so, as that is evidently what the owner
wants, but if closed be sured to close and fasten them
as before.
“18. Be satisfied with a fair share of game, and
do not try to exceed the legal limit or to kill all that
may be found, just because it may be there.
A TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE.
The verdict of a New York jury, Tuesday, that
the four picturesquely named Bowery toughs are
guilty in the first degree of the murder of the
gambler, Herman Rosenthal, is a triumph of justice
no less illustrious than that attained when the police
lieutenant, Becker, was convicted of the same murder
in the same degree. The whole pack of murderers
will get the sajne sentence —death in the electric
chair. Whether they pay that penalty is a matter
that the future alone can determine; but the chances
are that they will be executed, if they do not die of
senility meanwhile. To release them would be to in
voke the wrath of a great community that is con
vinced of their guilt by the fact that with every
doubt in their favor they were convicted by jury trial.
The Rosenthal case, revealing an appalling alli
ance between the police force of New York city and
the underworld element there, has been watched
with profound interest by the whole nation and the
world at large. Its progress has been commendably
free of needless delay. New York has been on trial.
The people, their courts of jfistice, their
sanity ot government—have been on trial. And the
results secured thus far have vindicated them.
The Rosenthal case has been subjected to a wave
of judicial reform that has been sweeping invisibly
but irresistibly over the country. The same spirit
of a reform demanded has been evident in the
Beattie case in Virginia, in the Richeson case in
Massachusetts, in the Allen gang case in Virginia, in
the McNamara cases in California, and in numerous
other criminal cases of the past few months in all
parts of the country.
Things look more wholesome as one important
case after another is decided in favor of society
against the criminal. It is becoming almost unwise
to do wrong.
It is pleasant to note in the market reports that
cheese is quiet.
‘ -PROSPERITY” OUR SLOGAN.
The Democratic party’s attitude toward estab
lished business was happily given point by the
interview in the Savarfnah dispatches, Wednesday,
quoting W. J. Bryan, then temporarily in that city.
“Prosperity is going to be the slogan of the
Democratic administration,” Mr. Bryan is quoted . 3
declaring.
President-elect Wilton’s assurances that there is to
be no reckless upheaval of business, have already
placed the party in its true light before the misin
formed voters who have feared the consequences if it
ever came into power. As Mr. Bryan remarked in
Savannah, these assurances have shown the panic
scare talk used by the opposition to be false.
Democracy’s work in charge of the nation’s af
fairs is so well defined and so obvious that none need
remain in uncertainty about it. The party’s slogan
is, indeed, prosperity.
TOPICS
CCAPOCTED. BY MRS. U HJTELTO4
BLESSED “TO-BE’S.”
Just to be tender, just to be true;
Just to be glad the whole day through!
Just to be merciful, just to be mild;
Just to be trustful as a child;
Just to be gentle and kind and sweet;
Just to be helpful with willing feet;
Just to be cheery when things go wrong;
Just to drive sadness away with a song.
Whether the day is dark or bright;
Just to be loyal to God and right.
' Just to believe that God knows best;
Just in His promises ever to rest;
Just to let love be our daily key;
This is God’s w'ill for you and for me.
—Young People’s Weekly.
While there are needful militant forces in the
world, there are not many real leaders. But there are
scores and thousands of others who must stand and
wait and follow tne right. Waiting is often irksome —
just as cheerfulness is often forced, for goodhesN
sake; but the people who make the best every-day
toilers are the tender —the glad—the merciful—the
trustful—the gentle—t>e helpful—and cheery, who
are loyal to God and to right.
When the four walls close in about us, and we
understand we are not to go out any more forever —
until the undertaker carries out the casket—we will
find that the graces of mind and spirit herein cata
logued a “Blessed To-Be” will give us more satisfac
tion than everything else beside.
If we can respect ourselves—appreciate out
own motives —deal fairly with our neighbors—and
stand loyal to God and the right, there is nothing
that can hurt us very much, here or hereafter.
It is not always easy to do any one of these
blessed “To-Be’s.” Human nature is very strong and
oftentimes very restive, but the happy people are those
who are loyal to God and the right, and when the
way is hedged in, and everything looks dark—a belief
that God knows best will smooth the way and keep
us serene.
“Be still and know that I am God!” is one of the
most quieting sentences in Holy Writ; and when God
reigns passion ceases to harrass our mortal desires, or
passions, or prayers!
May God help us to remember to be still and know
that God reigns and will do right.
• * •
WHO SHOULD CONTBOL AMEBIC A?
All our republican institutions were made by the
Anglo-Saxons. Those who landed at Jamestown were
English people and those who camo to Plymouth Rock
were of the same class and breed. The Cavaliers and
the Puritans were pure Anglo-Saxons. The Hugue
nots, who settled in Carolina, were white people. The
people who came over *with Oglethorpe were English
people. When the Revolutionary war ended —it had
been won by Anglo-Saxons. The war of 1812 was
won in the same v xy. United States troops—white
men—won the war with Mexico. I think we will all
agree that white peoples Anglo-Saxons, and Anglo-
Celts, conquered the Indians, and we will certainly
agree that these white settlers intended to leave the
heritage on vhich they lavished blood and treasure
tq their own descendants.
To quote a modern writer, “The old Anglo-Saxon
opened up the wilderness—drove the road —bridged
the stream and made the law ”
Now, what has happened?
Not counting previous emigration, America is said
to have received from Europe and Asia in the last
thirty years—twenty-eight million people. The negro
race that was brought over in slave ships—now num
ber ten million people. The emigration from Europe
—previous to and succeeding the Civil war—will count
up at least another ten million. Add these alien races
together and you have nearly fifty millions.
The population of the United State is set down at
one hundred millions—and nearly one-half are alien
races—and of many colors.
These peoples have done little or nothing towards
making this government great in fame —but they have
profited largely in pocket. The Italians—the Slavs—
the Polaks —the Russian Jew —the Asiatics and the
African are all here, living under the American flag—
and claiming the right to elect rulers, and enjoy
benefits.
How is this state of things, treating the legacy
which those old Puritans and Cavaliers and Hugue
nots fought to preserve to their own descendants?
If there is a more serious national problem, please
point it out.
THE PBOFESSOB WAS MISTAKEN.
There are all sorts of public speakers abroad in the
land, but the professor who advised the wage-earning
girl to spend all her money on clothes and finery—no
matter if her homefolks needed a part of it—is the
champion misfit of the entire lecture field —so far us
my information extends.
The girl who is willing to see her poor mother
slave and toil when she might help with a part of her
earnings, is a very ungrateful daughter, as I see it.
That mother may be Irritable and may not be the
extra manager that some mothers are, but she is the
mother—and that means a whole lot. More than that,
I doubt if there is one mother in a hundred who
would share her girl’s wages, if there was not abso
lute necessity for such sharing—and largely to make
the house pleasant to the girl herself.
And who is so near to the girl as the mother, who
brought her into the world and cared for her tenderly.
The professor's remarks called forth remarks from
some sensible women, who felt indignant that the
subject had been so unfairly treated by the professor.
There are lot s of girls who do not divide, many
Wiore than the self-sacrificing ones; and it is a well
known fact that selfishness has made many a poor
mother’s heart ache, and doubtless thrown the girl
into outside company, where her mother’s care vras
needed for her safety.
Towns and cities are full of girls working for
wages nowadays. In my girlhood no girl went out
side for work who could be sheltered at home, unless
she went into a home to weave or sew, or maybe
teach neighborhood schools. In all these places, sht
was sheltered with womenkind, and while some poor
girls do go wrong—under most favorable circum
stances —the majority of such wage-earning girls in
my early time, got along very well. I have always
been a friend to working girls—and where they have
to work away from home I have insisted that they
shall have the best protection—legal and social. But
the professor’s advice was so disloyal to parents, that
I thought we should not heed it.
FAVORS EXTRA SESSION
Editor Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: I wish to approve of your position
in favor of an extra session of congress for the re
vision of the tariff —downward. It is very important
that the business yorld be kept in suspense as little as
possible as to just what will be done.
My object in writing is to suggest a method of
procedure which would largely allay any disposition on
the part of business men to adopt a waiting policy to
see what will be done.
If Mr. Wilson’s call or announcement of an extra
session were coupled with his recommendation that the
tariff be revised one schedule at a time, and that all
new tariff bills passed become effective not until Jan
uary 1, 1914, business men could proceed with their
affairs for 1913 secure of their calculations not being
upset. Also being informed in advance of just what the
tariff for 1914 would be there would be no uncertainty
about the future.
Ideal business conditions cannot be hoped for so
long as there is any uncertainty in reference to any
important economic legislation, no matter how neces
sary such legislation may be.
.Very truly yours W. E. .BRYSON.
THE COSMIC ACCURACY
By Dr. Frank Crane
Nature never guesses, slips, stumbles, or misses.
She never makes a move that cannot be expressed in
algebraic formula. There is no 'waste, no scrap*, no
refuse. The chemical
of the garbage heap are just aJ
true as those of the apothecary’s
table. Burn this in the grata
and you have not destroyed *
thing; the matter has all passed,
by rigid chemic formulae, into
ashes and gases.
Even music can be mathemat
ically expressed. A Mozart
nata is governed absolutely by
the laws of numbers.
And if these things are under
the rigid rule of exact law, why
are not the things of mind and
heart and soul governed also by
the same exactness? Was it not
a good guess of old Epicharmus
that “we live by arithmetic and
logic?" And was Pythogoras so
K.wx
F-i. IM
far astray when he made number the center o< phil
osophy and theology?
It must be so. Anger, kindness, malice and love
move with the same unerring exactness that prevails
in the compounds of sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen.
Nature would not be so careful in low matter and
slipshod In her high products of the spirit.
It Is no mere figure of speech, then, to say, “B<s
sure your sin will find you out,” or "Whatsoever man
soweth, that shall he also reap?” Also, your good
ness will find you out. You live in a world of accu
rate moral as well as chemical reaction. The Ten
Commandments do not foozle any more than does
the multiplication table.
Once we get this conviction deep in our mind it
ought not to alarm us, but to give us a great and
unshakable peace. For it gives us the feeling that
our destiny is not the plaything of chance, but Is the
result of a precise and Intelligent purpose. If nature
is so solicitous about that atom of hydrogen, she cer
tainly is not going to overlook me.
Few people actually taka as their working creed
the moral and spiritual accuracy of the universe.
They adml 1 the rule in physics and astronomy and in
the assayer’s office, but in their human relations
they persist in the suspicion that life is rather a game
of cards, part luck and part shrewdness.
Whoever will renounce this superstition, acknowl
edge once for all that justice and mercy are as relia
ble as the rule of three, and utterly commit his life,
happiness and immortal soul to a perfect reliance
upon the higher laws, will be made henceforth free
from fear and strong with a strength not his own.
“The stars in their courses fought against Sisera,”
and they continue to fight against Jvery soul that ha*
risked himself in the hands of wrong and cruelty.
We ought to be as much afraid to act unjustly or
unkindly toward our neighbor as to taste indiscrimi
nately the contents of bottles on the drug store shelf.
We are fooling with lightning.
Behind every unclean thought wars the thunder of
the pliades. Every theft and cheating calls a power
of vengeance from the air. Every act of disloyalty
or jealous meannes s or malice is on its road to meet
somewhere a sword or a sorrow.
On the other hand,' you have never done a noble
thing that has been lost. All the good deeds of your
life walk along with you like a bodyguard of heavenly
policemen.
How much happier would we be if we left off for
ever the ignorant theory that we can cheat the cosmle
accuracy of the moral universe, and if we put into
each day what of truth and justice and love we can.
and if we should abide unshaken in the faith that
goodness means happpiness, just as absolutely ana
invariably to thor> who trust it, as two atoms of hy
drogen plus one of oxygen equal water!
Office seekers are warned that the grazing Isn't so
good at Bermuda just now.
Where there is so much smoke, there must be
some cause than can be removed.
Georgia's Day at Washington
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 19, 1912.
The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.:
Gentlemen:—l wish to commend the public spirit
and enterprise of your great Journal in inaugurating
a movement to send 125 Georgia boys to Washington
in March to attend the inaugural ceremony of Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson.
The opportunity thus presented should appeal to
the thousands of boys in our state who have it in
their power to make an effort to be numbered among
t-e selected xzs.
I heartily indorse the idea of arousig statewide
enthusiasm among Georgians to attend the inaugural
ceremonies next March, and by their presence give ex
pression to the gratification which.this state must
feel in the selection of a southern man for the presi
dency of the United States.
Georgia more than any other state in the union
should have p ide in the election of President Wilson,
since his wife, who is to be the next lady of the White
House, is a nr -ve, of our grand old state.
The south is coming back into her proper place
with the nation, and thousands of Georgians and
southerners should have a position of honor accorded
them on Per ylvania avenue on the 4th of March..
1912, at the natl’-.al capital. Yours truly,
HARVIE JORDAN.
Chairman Agricultural Finance Committee Southern
Commercial Congress.
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The more men know, the less they believe.
You must take you hat off to New York when it
comes to spectacular shooting cases.
Saving and Investing Talks
ADVICE IS CHEAP.
BT JOHN M. OSKXBON.
Talk —advice —is cheap, but it takes money to buy
whisky. That is a saying familiar to every boy in
certain parts of the country. I remember hearing it
for the first time when I was so
I small that I had no idea why
whisky was precious to men.
Later in life 1 absorbed the
theory that the men who could
•give really good advice would
not do so because they be
lieved that young people would
not follow it. So I worked out
the theory that you have to
learn by experience that certain
roads lead to inoral and finan
cial wreck. Talk about money,
how to get and save it, seemed
to me wasted breath.
Then I learned that there are
a great many men who make a
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business of giving financial advice. I learned that
both they who gave and they who received such ad- '
vice profited. I found out that there are a great
many people who can take advice as to the handling
of money. In my later experience I have found that
advice which is helpful does not consist, as I once
imagined, in handing out platitudes about the wisdom
of piling penny on penny, or of putting your money
into something which will make you rich if you hold
on.
The man who comes to me and shows me that by »
putting aside a dollar a week during my working life
I will liave a fund big enough to protect mA against
an old age of hardship and start my children off right;
is going to get my dollar a week. So, the real finan
cial advisers of the country have been those who have :
built up the big insurance companies, the savings and j
loan societies, the great savings banks, and the 27,000
ordinary commercial banks of the United States.
