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. DEVELOPING GEORGIA.
It Is an interesting sign of Georgia’s develop
ment that thirteen new railroads were chartered by
the State during the past year.
These new lines, two of which are to be electric
and the others steam, will have a total mileage of
nine hundred and. twenty-eight miles and an aggre
gate authorized capitalization of nearly four million
dollars.
" Such an investment hears striking testimony to
Individual and public confidence in the State’s re
sources. It is dirCcti c, for the most part, to fields
of ’ enterprise, hitherto unexplort.-, The fact that
most of the lines will be short and will serve local
needs does net lessen hut, on the contrary, empha
sizes the importance of the entire movement.
The length of the projected roads varies from
fourteen to two hundred miles; they will average
about seventy miles. This means that divers parts
of the State, which hitherto have been hut loosely
connected with the main highways of traffic are to
be joined to the steady currents of commerce and
development. Their own growth will be quickened
and they, in turn, will add to the enrichment of the
entire commonwealth.
The building of new railroads is simply one
aspect of a general movement for the exploitation of
Georgia's great stores of latent opportunity. Invest
ments of ■ovcr^M^^^^^icre^tog steadily from
-year toyearbnd^naeed^iran^mohth to, month.’
Hundreds of acres of land are being brought into
cultivation and productivity by settlers from other
parts of the Union, notably from the West.
The State’s agriculture has reached, or is fast
reaching, the stage of specialization.. New crops are
being profitably raised, new veins of natural treas
ures are being turned to account. It is only within
the past decade that fruit growing and nut growing
have been undertaken with businesslike purpose,
aac’. yet, even within this brief period of experiment,
it has become evident that for these industries,
Georgia is one of the most advantageous States in
the country. Likewise with cattle breeding, truck
farming, poultry culture and kindred pursuits. The
State’s production of food stuffs and its enlarging
place in the food markets of the nation have an
sconomic import that can scarcely be overgauged.
The same observation applies to larger fields of
qterprise and investment. The potential wealth . i
ka’s streams and water powers is just, coming
frious recognition. Her growth in manufactures,
Pugh pronounced enough, has really just begun.
The truth is there lies within this State, where al
most every type of soil and climate and natural
treasure are to be found, vast stores of undeveloped
wealth, richer than Ali Baba’., cave and more won
drous in their possibilities than the lamp of Aladdin.
The timely significant fact, however, is not so
much that this treasure exists as that it is finally
being brought into use. The new lines of railway,
(to which we have referred, are but one of many evi
dences that capital k turning more confidently and
more eagerly to Georgia and, indeed, to the South
as a whole. For every dollar that was invested a
decade ago, there are now a hundred.
Despite this, however, there is still a vital need
of means for plac’ng the State in closer and easier
connection with the sources of capital; for, money
and credit are the springs of development. Every
sound effort toward this end merits hearty welcome
and support.
evidently satisfied with their country’s liberal trade
policy; they know that free ports have quickened
trade and have at once sustained and invigorated
their whole business life. In the last election, the ^
Tories were defeated on their tariff issue.
Mr. Bonar Law, the Unionist leader, concluded,
therefore, that by some means or other his party
should relegate this troublesome proposition and, so,
he proposed in a recent speech that the question of
food duties be left for settlement to a conference of
the Colonies themselves. For f .hw:th, his leadership
sank almost to a nullity and his party broke into
two opposing camps, neither of which gives any
promise of closing the breach that has been made.
The situation has been compared, not inaptly,
to the division which sundered the regular and the
insurgent factions of the Republican party; and in
the event of an election, the Liberal triumph should
logically be akin to that of the Democrats last
November.
Better or timelier luck, the Liberal government
could not have wished for. The by-elections of the
past year have brought them many adversaries; their
majority in parliament, though still effective, has
been steadily dwindling; and they now face, in the
Irish Home Rule bill, what is, perhaps, the most
difficult and precarious piece of legislation they have
yet attempted.
But the demoralization that oversweeps their
opponents’ ranks has suddenly lined the clouds with
silver. Hopelessly divided over the big economic
issue that has hitherto given it unity and distinc
tion, the Unionist party stands before the country,
for the time being at least, disorganized, impotent
to meet responsibility or to utilize authority, a party
without a clear-cut issue or leadership.
In these circumstances, the Government, that is
to say the Liberal ministry, might find it advan
tageous to seek from the people a direct mandate on
the question of Home Rulq and kindred matters of
franchise reform.
The Liberals, if returned to power under such
conditions, would have a clearer and easier path to
follow and the rights of Ireland would be nearer
fulfillment than ever before.
Whatever may be the upshot of the present sit
uation, it is certainly One of the most interesting
that English politics hgs developed for many a
season.
You can’t convince folks that the good die young.
It will soon be. time for the annual massacre of
the fruit crop.
It will seem strange not to have but twenty-eight
days in February. •
The Democrats have started to revise the tariff,
and still the country lives.
THE TORIES’ DILEMMA.
Should a general election he held in England in
the near future, an event which now seems likely,
the- Liberal party could reckon upon a more decisive
victory than it has yet known during the past few
rears of stressful British politics. That is the pros
pect, today, although a month or-two ago just the
contrary outcome would have been predicted.
This sudden shift of omens is due chiefly to a
sharp and really bitter division which has arisen
within the Tory organization; and, interestingly
enough from the American point of view, the split
came over a question of tarilf duties on some com
modities, among them being food products; their
contention in this regard hast been that such a tariff
would make possible certain reciprocal preferences
between the British Kingdom and its colonies and
would thus establish within the empire a stronger
economic unity.
But the rank and file of the English people axe
FREE THE SENATE FROM
THE “SENIORITY” RULE.
The purpose of progressive Democrats to abolish
the outworn and foolish rule of seniority by which
the organization of the United States Senate has
heretofore been controlled is one of the happiest
omens in our new political era.
If the Senate were a Chinese council of the an-
ciept order where, as some one has drolly and truly
said, “the peacock’s feather and the yellow jacket
went to the oldest mandarin,” the seniority rule
would' be just the-thing. • -But in an American and
a Democratic body of lawmakers, in this liberal
and workmanly decade, it is as unfit and absurd a
practice as one could well conceive.
Under the so-called seniority rule, the places
and the chairmanships of important Senate com
mittees are given arbitrarily to the men who happen
to have been longest in office. Whether they are
the best available men for the places and the duties
allotted them, whether they will promote or encum
ber the country’s interests, whether they will prove
faithful or recreant—these questions are given only
secondary consideiation. The vital test under the
seniority rule is length of office tenure. If a Sen
ator has been on a certain committee longer than
any of his colleagues, then, according to this rule,
he should be assigned to its’ chairmanship when a
vacancy arises. This standard, arbitrarily applied,
is about as sensible as It would be to distribute
committee places according to the length of whis
kers or the paucity of teeth.
If a senator has served on a committee for many
seasons and has done his work earnestly and well,
then, to he sure, he would be peculiarly qualified
and would be entitled to preference. But suppose,
on the contrary, he had been on a committee for
years and had reached a prominent place simply
through the lapse of seasons or the luck of circum
stance, without having .proved himself competent or
really deserving of leadership. The seniority rule,
while operating In hie Individual'favor, would prove
a barrier to the freedom and the usefulness of the
Senate.
The Democratic party, now that it has come
into power and responsibility, cannot afford to ham
per itself with so un-Democratic a custom. Its own
Interests and tne country’s interests demand that
Its tasks be assigned to the men who arc hest fitted
to perform them, who have a hearty and intelligent
sympathy with those liberal and constructive pol
icies on which the party has won the people’s trust.
In the new Senate, there will he a working ma
jority of Democrats. The country will rightly ex
pect the administration, entrusted as it will he
with the means of power in both Houses, to pro
duce substantial results. The country will not be
satisfied, and should not he, with lost motion, with
parleying and delay and the fruitlessness that inev
itably follows weak or laggard organization.
How vitally important it is, therefore, that the
Democratic strength of the Senate he made to count
for its utmost in the way of speedy and efficient
performance; and to that end, the Senate should he
organized wholly with a view to faithful, thorough
going work.
Should the seniority rule stand in the way of this
purpose, then the rule should be abolished without
a moment’s hesitation. Committee places and chair
manships should be assigned by the Democratic cau
cus on a basis of merit, of capacity for service to
the party and tne nation. When that is done, the
Senate will not he considered a stronghold for special
privilege; it will be in fact as well as in name,
Democratic.
Much will come out in' the wash or the divorce
court. '
THE PART .THE AUTOMOBILE
PLAYS IN GEORGIA PROGRESS
The recent report that there were eighteen
thousand automobiles and motorcycles in Georgia
last year and that two thousand additional State
license tags would soon be taken by the owners of
new machines has evoked a deal of interesting and
rather diverse comment. Just what does this con-
tinual and extensive purchase of motor vehicles
mean to the State’s economic life and its common
interests?
Those eighteen thousand machines represent an
outlay of at least twenty-one million dollars. Forth
with, some observers will ask: “Is such an invest
ment a prudent one? It indicates prosperity, to he
sure, hut are its dividends to the average man and
to the commonwealth as a whole really worth while?
Does it spell progress or extravagance?”
There is no denying the fact that in a number
of cases the ownership of automobiles is a precari
ous venture. In this, as in many other matters,
there are persons who plunge beyond their means
and who, sooner or. later, must feel the pinch of
their folly.
But there is another, and we believe, a larger
side to the question. While the automobile may be
extravagance to some individuals, to the State as
a whole it is a wonderful agency of development,
an opener of new opportunities, a producer of new
wealth.
The good roads movement, which, in every part
of Georgia, is increasing realty values, linking com
munities, once dormant and remote, to the centers
of trade and which is quickening every field of
commercial life—this movement owes its encourage
ment, if not its very origin, to the automobile.
Not until the motor vehicle came into popular
use, did the nefed and the demand for well built and
well kept highways find potent expression. It was,
so to.speak, the spark that ignited public sentiment
and set the wheels of road improvement turning.
Certain it is that the great era of road building
and extension which the past few years have inau
gurated falls within the period when automobiles
began to appeal to the public as a whole.
We realize the tremendous value of good roads
today, largely because the automobile has centered
our attention upon their vital necessity. The peo
ple hkve always accepted the good roads gospel as
a theory, but not until years comparatively recent
has it been forced upon them as a gospel of works.
The farmer knew that a .bad highway meant a loss
of time and of profits; the merchant kjiew that it
was a barrier to trade; the property owner knew
that it kept down the value of his land; and every
one recognized that it was a drawback to educa
tional and social as well as material interests.
Yet, there was no dynamic and concerted effort
to improve these conditions; nor is it likely that
there would have been, except in the snailtng course
of time, had -it not been for the appearance of hun
dreds and thousands of automobiles whose owners,
facing the imperative need of good roads, became a
band of ardent crusaders in this cause. This, as
we have said, was the spark that released and uni
fied the forces of highway development.
Certainly, a machine that has done so much in
behalf of good roads, and therefore in behalf of the
State’s economic welfare, is an instrument for
progress. Though it may tempt Individuals to
folly, its net influence is incalculably constructive.
The extravagance of individuals will of necessity
find its own readjustment and finish, hut the larger
influence of the automobiles will continue as a stim
ulus and enrichment.
In the long run, therefore, Georgia is to be con
gratulated on the fact that she has perhaps more
automobiles than any other State in the Soiith.
Such a record, when broadly considered, is evidence
of substantial progress In the State’s upbuilding.
The old-fashioned editor who grows pessimistic
over homicides in America during 1912, and evades
the issues close at home, still exists.
Some people swore on again on the first just to
appear different.
ANOTHER THOUSAND.
AND-ONE NIGHTS
Judging by its cunning delays and dramatic sus
pense, the London Peace Conference bids fair to be
come another “Thousand-And-One Nights Entertain
ment."
The role of the seemingly fated but resourceful
lady is played, o. course, by Turkey. Just as the
Balkan Allies, ch. fing under repeated postpone
ments, whip out the sword and vow that the decisive
moment has arrived, Turkey begins another story;
and then all the Powers settle back to listen.
In the outset of the Conference, the Turks were
precise and emphatic in saying just what they would
and would not concede and, in order that they
might have ample space for diplomatic retreats, they
took a very advanced position. From this, they have
yielded on one issue and another until now they
are not so amazingly far from the terms of the Allies
themselves.
The Porte expected, of course, that it would play
other and more skillful cards than its handful of
concessions. It hoped that the Balkan States would
develop jealousies and suspicions among themselves
and would lose their cohesiveifess; or that the larger
Powers, fearing to entrust the control of south
eastern Europe to any other than a weak and atro
phied government, would call a halt on Balkan am
bitions.
But the little States have sedulously avoided the
trap prepared for them. They* have rejected Turkey’s
advances for secret or individual conversations and,
from first to last, have stuck stanchly together. In
the meantime, the larger Powers have increased
thei: pressure upon the Ottoman government with a
view toward effecting a settlement that will he ac
ceptable to the Allies. Hence It Is that Turkey is
making one concession after another; and, if she is
only given time enough she will doubtless come
squarely up to me Balkan demands.
Editorials In Brief
“I would make an ideal wife,” cfeclares Mary
Garden. Boy, page Nat Goodwin.—Richmond Times-
Dispatch. , *
People in a live town never boast of their cem
etery.
There isn’t anything prettier than an ugly little
girl just beginning to grow pretty.—St. Louis Re
public.
WHOM ANIMALS FEAR NOT
By Dr. Frank Crane
One of the beings to whom I look up with genuine .
reverence is the man whom animals take into their
confidence. I consider him as much higher in the
scale of evolution than the man
who enjoys killing animals, as
Florence Nightingale is above
Bill Syxes.
Many of us are friendly
enough toward the lower crea.-
tures; we would not cause them
pain, and we wish them the
sweetness of life. Yet they are
afraid of us. They run or fly
away when they see us coming.
Evidently they have no faith in
us; to them we are devils.
But now and again we find a
human being who seems to have
bridged the gulf that separates
man from beast, as the unpassa-
ble gulf separates Dives in tor
ment from Lazarus in Abraham’s
bosom. It seems a miraculous
gift. I knew a man who could walk among a swarni
of bees, brush them about as if they were pebbles,
pick them up, and push them by, and never get stung.
I knew a man, that could take a bird from her egg®
and put her back, whilst she gave no sign of panic.
Squirrels came to him, as they scampered from me.
There are men who can handle snakes. There are
men whom lions and tigers seem to regard as one of
their family. There are even men who are more fa
miliar with and at home among horses than among
women.
These seem to have broken down that wall of fear
and hostility that separates the genus homo from all
other animals.
It appears to be a kind of sixth sense, an aur a im
perceptible to ordinary mortal sight, yet which the
animals nder stand.
However, the dog is the one exception. It is no
credit to a man to be loved by a dog. A dog will love
yo*. whateve* you are, if you will let him.
I have no difficulty in believing the miracles of
those saints who talked with the creatures of the field.
I believe in ole Brother Beni gnus, who made a bar
gain with the blackbirds, that if they would let his
cherries and peas alone he would supply them with
plenty of “corn and manchet ends and marrowy bones,”
which bargain was faithfully kept by both parties.
And I believe, most of all, in that dearest of all ^
saints, Francis of Assisi, who loved bees, leverets, and*
all wild things of t\ie wood, and reasoned with them,
and, on one occasion, when he was walking the high
way with his disciples he lifted up his eyes and saw
some trees full of birds; and he said to his compan
ions: “Wait for me here in the road and I will go
preach to my sisters, the birds,” which he did, and the
birds listened quietly until he was through, and haa
giv4n them his blessing; whereupon they rose in the
air with wondrous singing, and flew away to the
north, east, south and west, in the form of the sign
of the cross Saint Francis had made over them.
Did ever a more beautiful story come down to us
from the gray past?
American Cities in iqi2
(New York World.)
The growth of our cities, phenomenal in many
instances, always arouses interest, and one need
not wait for the decennial census to get a true
indication of their relative rise. The building re
ports, which are without incentive to exaggeration,
are a sure index.
The reports for the year, with estimates for the
last day or two, have been made up. New York
of course leads, with its phenomenal growth not
only maintained but increased. No other city ever
equalled or approached it. Chicago is installed duly
in second place, with rather less than half the
amount of building that New York has done.
But below these two, important changes are oc
curring. Philadelphia, an undisturbed third for
decades, still holds the position in 1912, but by a
narrow margin. Los Angeles is close upon her. It
is a singular fact that this city, not so long ago a
sleeply half-Mexican town, is :iow the fourth of
the Union in building operations. It spent for that
purpose twice as much money as Cleveland, nearly
three times as ’ much as Pittsburgh, Minneapolis or
Kansas City, and 50 per cent, more than St. Louis.
San Francisco is considerably behind Los An
geles hut is several million dollars ahead of St.
Louis, while Detroit leads San Francisco by a fair
nlargin. The building reports for this and the pre
ceding years since the census indicate that Detroit
is 'growing faster than any other of the lake cities
except Chicago.
Atlanta, has achieved more .n 1912 than any
other city in the South, but Louisville, Richmond,
Dallas and Memphis have growr much, according
to their building reports. The greatest ratio of
development is shown on the Pacific coast. It will
surprise many people to learn tjiat Portland, Ore.,
has spent more money on new! buildings than Buf
falo or Baltimore or Newark or Kansas City, and
that it stands in tenth place. Seattle has also built
heavily.
Saving and Investing Talks
A WOMAN’S JUDGMENT.
BY JOHN M. OSXISON.
Angels may he high fliers, but not every high
flier is an angel,
rmlwiiH— ill ■ i'
No rose without a thorn. The parcel post has
brought down the express rate on prunes.—Pitts
burgh Dispatch,
It is not fashionable to save. "Imagine me find
ing out what a thing costs!” says Mrs. Average Amer
ican. A woman who edits, a paper for bankers is re
sponsible for the sentiment
quoted above. She says that the
mounting cost of living, is due to
the indifference to figures shown
by the modern housekeeper.
"The habit •' of saving," she
says, "is not a matter of pride.”
But to hav e things "as a matter
of course” is the end and aim of
‘the average American woman. No
longer do women buy with the
object of getting as much as
possible out of them—rather the
opposite, for the more you buy
and the more indifferent. to the
cost of things you are, the bet
ter your caste. If the women
who do the buying (please remember that I am still
quoting my friehd, the woman editor) won’t consider
the price and lasting qualities of things bought for
the home, pray why should the butcher, the grocer,
the dry goods merchant? He boosts the price for
Mrs. Smith, his "wholesaler boosts the price for him,
and the manufacturer boosts the price for the whole
saler.
My friend believes that if the average business
man “should proceed in such a (manner his firm
would have his head investigated ! for proof of the
statement that ‘nature abhors a vacuum,’ or if he were
head of the firm his business would take it upon it
self to wither under his fingers. His competitors
would be afraid of the very bankrupt sale of his
stock.”
Any system of saving which is designed to make
the family a more effective unit in the economic world
must have its foundation in the home. Smith's in
come will never be so big that it cannot all be used
in meeting living costs, for the producers of frills
are the best paid, most inventive and most tireless
workers in the world.
"Saving is a part of the needed Education of every
child, no matter how poor the family.” That is a true
saying—imported from France. .It will become fash
ionable in time, .too, . . , ||||| . ,
Till—LANDING AT ELLIS ISLAND.
BY FREDERIC 3. HASH.IN.
No cabin passenger ever sailed through the Nar
rows and beheld the Statue of Liberty without feel
ing a thrill at the sight. If it were not the thrill of
patriotic devotion to his native
or adopted land, it must be a
thrill of pleasure at being sare-
ly across and with a chance to
set foot on solid ground so
soon again. But, if the sight
of the Goddess stirs tire cabin;
what must it mean to th*
steerage? To the steerage a
new world is dawning and a
week or more of an earthly
purgatory ending. Dr. Stein
er, the eminent immigration
authority who has carried his
gospel of kindness into many a
steerage, himself acknowledges
th^t often he has tried to over
come the deep despair of the
steerage by reminding its peo
ple that though it seems like
Hell, there is a Heaven be
yond. He says that it Is not
easy to travel ih the steerage; not because there is
not room enough, or air enough, or food enough, al
though that is all true; but because it is hard to be
lieve down there that the God of Israel is not dead.
* • •
To the immigrant Fills island Is an ordeal. ThS
"man at the gate" is a big giant who can speed him
through or crush the life out of his hopes in an In
stant. A thousarid lies, some useful, some useless,
and some unnecessary, are prepared in the hope that
they will help in the navigation of the tortuous chan
nel of admission to America. Passing quarantine
and the customs officials as the ship comes up the
bay, it is warped into its dock, and when the last
cabin passenger has gone ashore the steerage people
are put into barges and towed to Ellis island, where
final judgment awaits them. Their tickets are fast
ened in their caps, or pinnned to their clothes, and
their bills of lading are in their hands. When they
enter they are lined up In long rows, with two doc
tors for each row. They must walk down a narrow
lane made by rows of piping, with an interval of
twenty feet between them. As they approach the
doctors begin to size up each immigrant. First, they
survey him as a whole. If the general impression la
favorable they cast their eyes at his feet to see If
they are all right. Then comes his legs, his body,
• • •
his hands, his arms, his face, his eyes and his head.
While the immigrant has been walking the twenty
feet the doctors have asked and answered in their owa
minds several hundred questions. If the immigrant
reveals any intimation of any disease, if he has any
deformity, even down to a crooked finger, the fact i*
noticed. .
If he is so evidently a healthy person that the ex-j
aminatton Teveals no reason why he should he held,
he is passed on. But If there is the least suspicion * 1
in the. minds of the doctors that there is anything at
all wrong with him, a chalk mark is placed upon thd
lapel of his coat. After passing the surgeons wn«t
examine their health, tickets and their bodies, the lmJ
migrants next encounter the one who examines their
eye With towels and antiseptic solutions by him,
the surgeon rolls the eyelids of the immigrants bacW
on a round stick resembling a pencil. He is looking
for trachoma. Those discovered to have it are sent
away for deportation.
• • *
The line moves on past the female Inspector look
ing for prostitutes, and then past the inspectors who
ask the twenty-two questions required by law. Hers.,
is where the lies are told. Most of the Immigrants
have been coached as to what answers to give. Her<
is an old woman who says she has three sons in
America when she has but one. The more she talks
the worse she entangles, herself! Here Is & Russian
Jewish girl who has run’ away to escape persecution.
She claims a relative in New York at an address
found not to exist; she Id straightway in trouble.
• • •
. r
The surgeons mark about half of :he Immigrants
with chalk marks as they file by, and those so
marked go to another pen £or further examination.
Families are torn asunder, and no one has time or
opportunity to explain why. Mothers are Wild, think
ing that their children are lost to them forever; chil
dren are frantic, thinking they will see their parents
no more. Husbar.ds and wives are separated and for
hours they ’ now not why or how.
e • *
After the Immigrants have passed the inspectors
comes the real parting of the ways—the "stairway
of separation.” Here are three stairways, one lead
ing to the railroad room, another to the New York
room and another to the ferry. . ,
• • •
To those who have passed muster in this ordeal
the way is now open. They are inside the gate and
their troubles are over. But here is a room 1 where
those go who have been given tickets marked “P. C."
(public charge). This takes them to an iron barred
gate behind which sits an official who admits them
and has them distributed to the various detention
rooms. Sometimes 2,000 may be detained at a time.
Conditions are admittedly bad in some of theae rooms
due to overcrowding and Inadequate facilities, but all
agree that the officials and those under them do all
in their power to ameliorate these conditions.
• • •
Does the law work hardships at our •immigration
stations? Yes, everybody admits that. Sometimes
merj are turned back for trivial causes. Four Greeks
were going to Canada, via New York. The Canadian
law requires each Immigrant to have $25. They had
$24.37 each. When they found their funds short they
wanted to come into the United States, but they
could not. A child is taken down with a contagious
disease and is carried to the hospital. The mother
must wait and cannot even see her child. A man and
his son have had their money stolen from them in
the steerage; they lack $25 and must go back. And
so the sad tale goes on every day.
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But could the immigration authorities be vested
with discretion in the matter? Then 16,000 debarred
aliens a year would lay siege to their sympathies and
each would regard his own as a special case, and in-
numerble difficulties would result All authorities
agree that the system in vogue is Just about as hu
mane and as free from hardships as any system that
might be devised, and that would maintain the inter
ests of the nation as paramount to the interest of
the individual immigrant. It is, however, equally
agreed that Ellis island is often overcrowded and
needs enlargement and that many minor changes in
the immigration laws ought to be enacted.
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Sixteen thousand immigrants debarred from the
United States in a year! Half of these are debarred
because they probably would become public charges.
Some 2,300 were deported upon surgeons’ certificates
showing that they possess mental or physical de
fects which might affect their ability to earn a Hy
ing. Another 1,800 were sent back because they had
loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases, while
1,333 were denied admission because they were con
tract laborers.
Pointed Paragraphs
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A good way to have all the friends you need is
not to need any.
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The wise man puts his troub£"-4n pawn, then
proceeds to lose the ticket. \
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People who throw bouquets at themselves are
not necessarily fond of flowers.
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And sometimes a man who calls himself an art
connoisseur is considered an artless bore by his ac
quaintances.