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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1913.
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THE SOUTH’S WONDROUS
GROWTH IN COTTON MILLS.
• As an omen of the SOutL’s industrial future,
nothing could be mere cheering than the figures
cited by President Finley, of the Southern railroad,
in his comment on cotton mill construction.
Of the thirty-seven new mills built In the United
States last year, twenty, as he showed, are In the
Southeastern States.
Of five hundred and thirty-three thousand new
spindles, four hundred and twenty-seven thousand,
or eighty per cent, are in Southeastern mills; so,
too, with sixty-six per cent of the new looms.
If the extensive additions made during the year
to mills already established were taken into ac
count, the record would loom still more impres
sively; but Mr. Finley confined his calculation to
new plants. Certainly, he seems justified in say
ing that the aggregate increase has been so great
“as practically to assure a maintenance of the record
made by the cotton producing States in the year ended
August 31, 1912, when the mills of the South con
sumed more cotton than those of all other sections
of the United States.”
■ This steady and rapid growth of the cotton mill
industry in the South is far-reaching in its eco
nomic benefits.
With a few exceptions, raw products can be
■^^ijifaetvi#&djp2Bt.-~cheaply and, in every respect,
' most advantageously, in the district where they are
grown.
The South is the natural center for this great
field of American industry. A conspiracy of circum-
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stances long kept it from being the actual center
but happily those conditions are fast being over
come.
The widower, being a man of experience, is apt
to dodge the boarding house that advertises all
the comforts of a home.
THE COURT’S DECISION
ON MARKET “CORNERS”
The decision of the United States supreme court
in the so-called Patten case enunciates a principle
of far-reaching importance to the country’s economic
interests. The court holds in effect that a “corner”
of any commodity is a restraint of interstate com
merce and may, therefore, be a violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law. The court’s decision, to be sure,
does not in any wise determine the guilt of the in;
dividuals involved in the alleged corner of cotton by
a group of financiers who were bent upon “bulling"
the price of the staple; it simply asserts that if the-
defendants did what they are charged with having
done, then they are liable to punishment under the
amti-trust act.
If this principle is so applied as to prevent that
manipulation of markets and prices which enriches
a few speculators at the expense of the people as a
whole, a vast deal of good will be accomplished.
Yet, in so far as this particular case is con
cerned, it seems evident that the department of jus
tice chose as its object lesson one of the least of
existing evils and, for some reason never yet made
clear, ignored far graver offenses.
The attorney general’s procedure against these
persons naturally, gave rise to the question as to
why he had picked out for prosecution a movement
the chief tendency of which would have been bene
ficial to cotton producers and to hundreds of thou
sands of people; and why- he had made no effort
to indict that far more culpable group of men, the
“bears,” who were conspiring by artificial means to
pull down and keep down the price of cotton.
Had the government directed its energies against
the latter class, its case would certainly be more
pointed and more impressive, and it would be more
striking still had the jugglers of food products been
selected as an example. It is such conspiracies and
manipulations that fall most heavily upon the
average consumer and unjustly advance the cost of
living. The course of the department of justice,
therefore, smacks very much of straining at gnats
and swallowing camels.
That consideration aside, however, the fact re
mains that the supreme court has established a
principle of utmost importance. Secret and artifi
cial means whereby a few men attempt to control
the price of the necessaries of life for their own
advantage are wrong, and they arq perilous to the
country’s common interests. They are wrong
economically and morally and, as the court now de
clares, they are contrary to the anti-trust law. What
ever may be the merits of the particular case on
which the decision is based—and it should be re
membered that the case Is yet to be tried on its
facts—the general principle which the court has set-
i tied should put an end to many evils in Wall street.
DISTINCTIVE PRAISE FOR
PANAMA CANAL CONFERENCE.
In the East and the North as well as the South,
the formation of the Southern Panama Canal Con
ference has been warmly commended as an exam
ple of commercial energy and foresight The Wash
ington Post refers to the enterprise as “filling one
of the country’s real needs” and adds:
‘‘Other sections should form similar organ
izations to prepare for the reaping of the canal’s
coming harvest of trade. There is not a city
in the United States that could not improve its
commercial opportunities by sending a few ex
perts into South America to study the situation
with a view to improving our opportunities
after the opening of the Canal. There should
be more organizations like the Southern Pan
ama Canal Conference, devoting themselves to
the work of developing trade relationships with
South America. The passing of resolutions will
not bring a dollar’s worth of trade to the United
States. What is needed is action—the sending
of agents, advertising, the' establishment of
American banks and steamer lines; in a word a
duplication of the methods Europe is putting
into effect."
For months and even years past, the nations of
the Old World have been systematically making ready
for the opening of the canal, and for the fields and
currents of commerce that will be released. They
have sent their embassies and experts into the canal
country and all contguous regions. They have
been busy arranging banking facilities, in studying
the needs, the tastes and in cultivating the good
will of the people with whom the new trade will be
carried on.
The South is to be congratulated on the fact that
it has taken a definite and aggressive step in this
direction through the movement that was recently
projected at the convention held in Atlanta. It re
mains, however, to make the Southern Panama
Canal Conference a dynamic and practical force. If
it is to accomplish the results for which it was de
signed, it must have the businesslike support of
merchants and manufacturers, boards of trade,
chambers of commerce, railway companies and all
other commercial interests throughout the section.
The Atlanta meeting simply provided the means
and machinery by which the all-important task of
preparing for the canal may be performed. It is
from the business leaders in every Sta,te and city
in the South that the motive power must come.
Certainly, this great and seasonable enterprise
should not be suffered to lag or languish for lack
of due encouragement and co-operation. Its follow
ing should increase by scores and hundreds and its
plans should be put into force without delay.
The Art of Superiority
By Dr. Frank Crane
ISN’T IT TIME TO RECOGNIZE
THE YOUNG CHINESE REPUBLIC?
Senator Bacon’s resolution calling for recogni
tion of the Chinese republic by the United States
will doubtless commend itself to the best judgment
as well as the best sentiment of congress and the
people. In all likelihood, too, it will pass the house
and the senate, though common opinion seems to be
that It would, in that event, meet President Taft’s
veto.
The republic of China, young though it be, has
been squarely upon its feet for nearly, a twelve-
month; -Certainly the Manchu regime is dead and
done for. Whatever intercourse, diplomatic or com
mercial, we may have with China must be conducted
through the republican government—the only gov
ernment now established in what was formerly the
empire.
While the republic has had, and will continue to
have, Its vexing problems and perhaps divers adver
sities, it is nevertheless proceeding with its tasks in
a businesslike and thoroughly responsible manner.
The country Is not less, but more, peaceful than it
was under the old order. The people, taken as a
whole, are more contented and they are faring bet
ter in their social and economic life. The stimulus
of freedom, so long withheld, is making itself felt.
The movement that climaxed in the overthrow of
the dynasty was evidently ndt a blind or destruc
tive impulse, but an earnest ideal which had long
been gathering power and which will lead steadily
forward and upward.
Of the stability of the new government, the New
York Evening Post aptly remarks: “So well thought
of is the republic that the leading European nations
and the United States are fairly forcing their money
upon it, which hardly looks as if anarchy were ex
pected tomorrow. The burden of proof why the
republic should not be recognized is plainly upon
those who would deny it acceptance among the na
tions of the earth.”
The republic has modeled its laws and is shaping
its political ideals after those of the United States.
It is to this nation in times gone by that China has
looked for sympathy in her problems and hardships;
and the United States has the credit of having done
more than any other world power to safeguard
China against dismemberment by European greed.
For these reasons, China regards America with a
feeling of the most cordial friendship, and what
asset could be worth more to us when the great
East begins in earnest its great commercial devel
opment? -
A recognition of the young republic by the
United States at this time would cement forever
that kindly and valuable sentiment. Such a policy
could lose us nothing; it would assure us much for
the future.
When I was a boy I was once walking along with
my brother James. Suddenly he straightened up and
said: “That’s Chick Sterne coming. He’s the pitcher
for the Modocs. Watch me speak
to him,” the Modocs being the
most famous baseball nine in our
parts.
Then as the Great One passed
by, my brother said, oh, so care
lessly:
“Hullo, Chick!” And Chick
said “Hullo!”
James thereupon rose incon
ceivably in my estimation.
Later in life X learned that the
trick was very common, the trick
of being familiar with celebri
ties.
It is one of the best ways to
impose upon people and make
them think you are somewhat.
It is distilled sweetness to the
• breast to he able, when a noted
person’s name is mentioned, to .cay: “Oh, yes! I
know him.”
It is still better If you have some little scandal or
intimate fact to relate, and you need not be particular
about the truth.
When the name of a famous author occurs In con
versation, say: "He doesn't live with his wife, you
know. He eats with his knife. He smokes fifty
cigars a day,” or some such matter.
Always speak a trifle deprecatingly of great folks.
Enthusiasm is bad form. It betrays unsophisticated
ness.
Say that it’s too bad about Taft; that Wilson, of
course, will make a mess of things, and that you know
for a fact that Roosevelt slapped his mother's wrist.
Giver out the impression that all fame and posi
tion are to you an amusing deception; that you have
private information that the senator bought his seat*
that the grand opera favorite owes her prominence
to devices that may not be named, -and that every
body, except you, is a humbug.
If you can mahage to get acquainted with the
street car conductor and greet him familiarly it will
cause all the other passengers to look up to you.
If a preacher makes a deep Impression, go up to
him and give him to understand, in a good naturea
way, that you are familiar with hiq secret.
Never credit anybody with being sincere. Always
show that you grasp their little game.
Thus you will become expert in the cheap and
nasty art of superiority. Your vanity will be increased
and everybody will secretly detest you.
A rabbi once passed the hat to raise money to buy
coal for the synagogue for the coming winter. All
gave except Mr. Moses, his wealthiest member. The
next day the rabbi, passing Moses’ store, asked him
why he had refused to subscribe.
“Ah!” said the shrewd Mr. Moses. “You are all
* right. It was a great scheme. I was the only one
who was on. You was raising money to buy coal,
and the synagogue is not heated with coal. It Is heated
with steam! I was the only one who was on!”
Saving and Investing Talks
SAVINGS BANK LIFE INSURANCE.
BY JOHN M. OSXISON.
Some results of the Massachusetts law which for
several years has permitted the savings banks to is
sue life insurance were made public recently. They
seem so encouraging that they
ought to be put into the hands
of buyers of life insurance
everywhere as a check against
charges made by private compa
nies.
It is not possible in a small
space to give more than a short
summary of the results of opera
tion. But I can say,
First, that to policy holders
who have held their policies for
more than four years, the cost is
34 per cent less than the cost of
similar policies in privately man
aged companies. It is 44 per
cent less than the cost in the
private companies before 1907, the year in which the
private companies reduced their rates.
Second, the saving to th e savings bank policy hold
er comes, not in the reduction of the premium rate
(the law has the largest possible respect for the mor
tality tables and reserve requirements), so much as
in the more liberal annual dividends declared on the
policies. Here are the figures:
On policies for which the holder pays in monthly
installments, and which have been in force one year,
the dividend equals one month’s payment, or 8 1-3 per
cent of the annual premium charge; on those in force
two years, 12 1-2 per cent; on those in force three
years, nearly 14 per cent; on those in force four
'years, 16 2-3 per cent, and on policies in force five
years, 20 per cent of the year’s premiums.
Third, three savings banks which have written
most of the policies have reported substantial sur
pluses on this branch of their business after paying
all claims, dividends, and providing the full legal re
serves. After four years, for instance, one reports
a surplus on a very moderate volume of business of
$16,683.47. The plan has justified itself.
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This world doesn’t love a lover as much as it
hates a quitter.
PROGRESS OF GEORGIA BANKS.
Reports from the State Treasurer and Secretary
of State show that the year 1912 was a period of
marked stability and progress for Georgia hanks
and kindred institutions.
Within the twelvemonth, charters were issued
for fifty-two new State banks and for five new trust
companies, thus bringing the total number of such
enterprises up to seven hundred and two.
The net increase in banking capital for the year
amounted to nearly three and a half million dollars.
The resources of the banks aggregated a little
less than one hundred and forty-four million dol
lars, of which one hundred and nine millions were
loans and discounts. There was an increase of nine
teen million dollars in loans.
Whatever depression parts of the State may feel
from short crops is manifestly incidental; at bot
tom, .business conditions in Georgia are sounder
than they have been for many a year.
The resources of the State are calling steadily
for new capital, are bringir £ new investments and
are developing larger and more extensive facilities
of finance.
The increase in the number of hanks has not
been limited to any one section of the State; it
reveals a spirit of confidence and a stir of progress
throughout the commonwealth.
CRUCIAL CONDITIONS IN MEXICO.
It is reported that within the past few months
some thirty thousand Mexicans have left their trou
blous land to seek security and a livelihood in the
United States. Man after man, family after family,
they are crossing the border, unable to endure any
longer the hardships and dangers of a disorder that
is little short of anarchy. Even among those who
make a trade of fighting, many have become weary
of the fruitless strife, while farmers and laborers
with any sense of thrift have begun to realize that
under present conditions the country affords them
no opportunity to get along.
If this state of affairs continues, it is hard to see
how anything is left for Mexico except economic as
well as political ruin. With industry disheartened,
production checked, capital frightened and jeopard
ized, with homes imperiled and the rights of prop
erty and life continually at hazard, what hope is
there of progress or stability?
This native emigration is paralleled by an even
larger exodus of foreign residents. More than a year
ago, foreigners with business or investments in Mex
ico began sending their families across the border
and today only those who are compelled by circum
stances remain: Fat from mending, conditions
seem to be growing more and more ragged. The so-
called rebellion, which is in fact little more than
organized pillage, goes on; marauding gangs con
tinue to destroy property and to make life a matter
of chance. The Madero government, though giving
every pledge of a purpose to put down the disorder,
has so far proved utterly unable to do so.
European governments are becoming very impa
tient over the disregard of the interest: and safety
of their citizens who are in Mexico. Whatever power
and efficiency the Madero government may possess
should be exerted to the utmost without delay; else-
wise there Is no predicting what may happen.
^OUAITRY
YlMElX
IjOME topics
Co/ipocrEP.wjii^wKJrtuc^
Few people are satisfied; they eithet* get too
much or not enough.
STRAINING AT GNATS AND SWALLOWING
CAMELS.
(Philadelphia Record.) •
All housekeepers know how to make mince
pies* without meat, and perhaps the pure food au
thorities would not interfere with them even if
they sold the pies. But the authorities insist that
mincemeat which contains no meat is fraudulent,
and have seized the filling for several thousand
pies. Of course, commercial fraud ought not to
be condoned, but would these same pure food au
thorities seize sweetmeats which contained no
meat of sweetbreads which contained no bread?
I wonder if the pure food faddists will throw away
the mincemeat that contains no meat?
For my own. part, I would prefer mince pies that
have no beef suet in them, and^I am sure nice butter
will do for the grease part of mince pies.
The pure food law is all right in the right place,
but there should be no nonsense in its workings. It
was intended to prohibit impure and unwholesome
things from the markets. Thtit is all right and
proper, and welcome to clean-minded people, but It
does look as if the rejection of an immense quantity
of a pie mixture because it contained no meat was an
act of silly overdoing.
What about a “welsh rarebit” that contains no
rabbit or a mock turtle soup that is all mockery?
W© have so many fads and faddists nowadays that
tne county is overrun with so-called officials who
“strain at gnats and swallow camels.”
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NO TURKEY TROTS OR BUNNY HUGS IN THE
, WHITE HOUSE.
The country is to be congratulated if Mrs. Presi
dent Wilson declares for sane and sensible dancing in
the White House.
I think she is wise to draw a line on turkey trots,
because the turkey that trots was always an un
graceful bird, and the bunny hug, I guess (I never
saw a bunny hug) are like those oldtime waltz hugs,
except a little more so.
I never could understand why nice and 'sensible
women found it agreeable to take all their clothes
off about the neck and shoulders, especially in cold
weather, until I saw these waltzing men hugging the
dancers in great big dancing halls.
Then I could understand they were simply pleas
ing these men who did the hugging.
I shall continue to say that Mrs. President Wil
son is a wise woman to cut out turkey trots and
bunny hugs.
As for the grizzly bear dances, I presume they
only belong to aboriginal peoples, not to select Wash
ington society.
...
THE TRIAL OF THE DYNAMITERS.
Fifty years from now there will be much more
said about this Indianapolis trial than is spoken now.
These dynamiters were guilty beyond the shade of a
doubt, but public pressure was strong to defeat the
trial, and protect the criminals.
Still, the court held on and the jury said “Guilty,"
and the offenders went to Leavenworth prison. What
the next step will be we must wait to see. It was a
sad thing that these daring criminals belonged to
large organized labor associations, and particularly
unfortunate that these murders (for they were mur
ders) should have been committed by leading men in
some of these oganizations. It gives organized or
union labor a “black eye.” Every reflecting mind la
convinced that there Is a coming crisis in antagonism
between labor and capital; perhaps this trial may be
deemed one of the crises, and we may dare to hopo
that dynamiting will be in disfavor henceforth and
forever as a means of settling disputes between em
ployers and the employed.
I have a great deal of sympathy for the wage,
earning people who see no hope for pay that Is suffi
cient to Keep a shelter and food for their dependent
ones unless they unite to compel a living wage, but
whenever murder comes In as a remedy the reinedy
becomes more ihtolerable than the evil complained of.
And it was particularly sad that a United States sen
ator, greedy for money, actually left his place of duty
to go to Indianapolis to denounce the court proceed
ings and defend the dynamiters. And this United
States senator was a candidate for the vice presidency
on the Democratic ticket before the Baltimore conven
tion!
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THE DOG QUESTION IN ALABAMA.
Alabama, like Georgia, seems to be affected with
the dog question. (I suppose Georgia is to be con
stantly afflicted unless the grade of intelligence la
raised kmong our legislators.)
In the Montgomery Advertiser I notice a long edi
torial on the subject, in which it is stated that the
number of sheep in that state had decreased more
than 50 per cent in the last two years. On April 15,
1910, they had only 109,000 sheep in their limits, while
in 1900 they had 229,000. During 1909 the fleeces on
their reduced number sold for $85,000, but in 1911 the
number was still rapidly decreasing.
To quote the editor: “There we have it, the ste&dy
decrease of an industry i n the state of Alabama that
was even in late years productive. Sheep and worth
less dogs cannot be grown in the same territory. Sheep
are useful to the physical wants of man. ' Man is
nourished by their.flesh and clothed by thedr fleece.
“But what are the dogs good for?
“They are nothing but a heavy and useless tax on
man even if they never destroyed his sheep and other
property.
“In Alabama we stand for the flop-eared hound
and the onery cur. The men who own dogs can out>-
vote the men who own sheep, therefore, down with the
sheep.”
This is as true as gospel. In Georgia it is this
dog vote which controls our very ‘.‘onery” legislators.
I supposed there would be some consideration for
poultry raisers, but the dog vote in Georgia out
weighs all the farmers’ wives.
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WHO WANTS THE INDIAN COINS?
Elberton, Ga., R. F. D. No. 11, Jan. 1, 1913.
Dear Mrs. Felton:
I have been thinking of writing to you for quite
a while. I have two pieces of money that I want to
get some information from you as to their value. One
piece is Indian money, I suppose. It is. a little bit
^larger than ^.n oldtime 1 cent, made of copper, has no
number, date or writing on it; just has a picture of a
chief engraved on one side with a tomahawk also. And
on the other there is a squaw engraved with some
kind of weapon, looks something like a pistol case;
just the head of the chief and squaw engraved. I
have also a 1 cent (the oldtime 1 cent) dated 1822. I
s-w in the Happy Hours magazine an advertisement
for old coins. Yours truly,
MRS. R. L. THURMOND.
Why Fret?
(American Magazine.)
“Are the trains too slow for you? Caesar, with all
of his court, never ‘exceeded’ the speed limit.
“Are your wages too small? In Europe people are
content with making a living. ,
“Are the lights too dim? David wrote his psalms
by the light of a smoky torch.
“Are you ugly? Cleopatra, though homely, be
witched two emperors.
“Are you cold? The soldiers of Valley Forge
walked barefoot on the Ice and snow.
“Are you hungry? The children of India are
starving for want of a crust of bread.
“Are you tired? Why fret about it? Jacob was
tired when he dreamed of th e angels of Heaven.
“Are you sick? Suppose you had lived 2,000 years
ago, when sickness was fatal.
“Are you poor? The Saviour of Men was not
wealthy.
“Cheer up! Praise God that you. live in the midst
of His blessings.”
IMMIGRATION
IX.—IMMIGRANT HOMES AND. AID SOCIETIES
BY FREDERIC 3. BASKIN.
Immigrants arriving in this country usually expect;
to go to some relative or friend or to hav*5 some rel
ative or friend to meet them upon arrival. But it'
frequently happens that these
relatives or friends fail to meet
them or to send funds for the
continuation of their journey.
In such event tjie letter of the
, law would require the immi
grants to be deported, since,
being penniless, they are likely
to become public charges. But
where there are trustworthy
persons or organizations who
will undertake to care for them
until they find employment or
are brought Into touch with
their relatives or friends, the,
immigrants may be discharged
to them after five days’ de-j
tention. The immigrant, un.der
these conditions, is given his
preference of being discharged
to the agents of the homes and'
•aid societies or of being de
ported. Usually he takes the chance to be thus dis-‘
charged.
• • •
In order to afford such immigrants the opportu
nity of landing and to assist other Immigrants to,
avoid the- hundred and one dangers of being turned'
adrift in a big city vrhere no one else tries to pro
tect them from the innumerable scoundrels who would 1
rob them and lean them into vice, many churches andi
philanthropic organizations have established these
immigrant aid societies and homes for the care of th»i
Immigrants uxitil such time as they can get along
th-mselves.
„ • • • i
* Some of the societies receive annual appropriations’
from various European governments for their serv-i
ices to the immigrants from those countries. Others
are supported by people of certain races for'the bene
fit of immigrants of their own nationality. In onei
year nearly 16,000 immigrants were dischr&ged a<|
Ellis island to homes and add societies. The law does
not recognize the missionaries who represent these 1
organizations, but at each port the commissioner of
immigration gladly co-operates with those whose
places are carefully conducted. Each home or soci
ety must file application for the privilege of having (
immigrants discharged to it, and its duly accredited
agents ar© given annual passes to the Immigration
station.
* • • » |
These societies and homes, when properly con
ducted, undoubtedly do an infinite amount of good.:
Particularly are -they of immeasurable benefit to the
w.omen and girls who come friendless to America.
But investigations have revealed the fact that many,
of them are not properly conducted, and that the very,
conditions they seek to remedy are promoted by therm,
• • •
The immigration commission a few years ago Ini
vestigated the whole question of these societies and
homes with great care. It sent women agents inter-j
ested in social settlement work into the field, dis
guised as immigrants and as foreigners seeking work,
with some others as applicants for immigrant help
of various kinds. The results of their investigations!
were a revelation to many. At some ports it was
found that the commissioners were' indifferent to th«l
qualifications of the -representatives of the various
homes and societies; at others they seldom investl-j
gated the character of the homes and societies mak
ing application for permission to do the work; while 1
at a few they wer© as careful as the limited powers
of investigation permitted them to be, and y©t at all*
the pprts there were Missionaries whose motive wasj
“revenue only.” There were homes and societies
which did not properly safeguard the Interests of the*
immigrants because of carelessness in placing them,
and even ‘‘homes’’ where an absolutely immoral at-i
mosphere was encountered.
...
Missionaries and home and society agents assist
arriving immigrants in various ways. They write 1
letters for them, help them to get Into communication
with friends and relatives, trace lost baggage, escort 1
them to their destinations, send their names and ad
dresses to those who can look after thorn if they are!
going to other cities, appear before the hoards of,
special .Inquiry In their behalf, and make their appeals
to the secretary of commerce and labor In the event
It appears that the decision of the commissioner
ought to be altered, when they do all these things,
In the true missionary spirit they are rendering au
Invaluable service to the Immigrant But unfor-i
tunately, soriie of them do not In spite of the waton-
fulness of the immigration authorities some of thesal
missionaries disgrace their profession in many ways.
Some have been known to come to the stations drunk.,
some take money for their services and transform
themselves In petty attorneys, while others have been)
known to take advantage of helpless women. But
for the most part, the Immigration missionary la,
upright and worthy.
...
Some of the homes to which the missionaries send,
immigrants are all that could he desired. The aur-|
roundings are clean and wholesome, the moral atmos
phere Is excellent, the food Is good, and the chargesl
are no greater than the pocketbook of the Immigrant
will allow. Often they charge only 60 cents a dayl
for hoard and lodging, and even less when It la by the
week. But more important, In such places the mana -'
gers are very careful that the women and girls shall,
be placed where there Is a good moral atmosphere.
None of them Is allowed to go to places which cannot,
give satisfactory references, and a card Index with a
follow-up system keeps the home In close touch wlthi
the Immigrants placed until they, become firmly es
tablished.
...
Other homes are us careful about the conditions!
with which the Inmates are surrounded while they re
main there, but are distinctly careless in the matteT|
of placing the women. They would not wittingly
send a girl out to act as a servant in a disorderly
house, and yet by failure to Investigate requests for
help, frequently they do so. Still other homes do;
not hesitate to send girls to such places, even after
It was explained to them that such was the nature
of the places. Of forty-four homes investigated half,
of them did not draw the line on sending girls as
servants in such houses. The missionaries made lit-,
tie better showing than the homes In this regard.’
Twenty-one were asked for servants for disorderly,
houses; eleven supplied them. Only three refused
point blank to do so.
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Some of the aid societies refer Immigrants to em
ployment agencies. Of taventy-two such agencies that
were licensed, only fi\W failed to furnish servants|
for applicants from disorderly houses. Practically
every unlicensed employment agency unhesitatingly!
furnished such help.
...
In some of the homes men connected with their,
executive staffs were guilty of immoral advances’
towards the investigators as well as toward other in-,
mates. The method of the investigatldn usually was 1
for one investigator to get admitted to the home and,
to stay here for several days. Then another Invest!-1
gator would come and apply for a girl, explaining that
she was wanted as a servant to tend the door In a
manicure establishment that was enjoying police pro
tection, and which was run in connecting with a lodg
ing house for transients. Then the first investiga
tor would usually be called in and asked If she wanted
tile Job. She was usually admonished that If she
took it she should Just close her eyes to what went
on. It was while the boarding Investigators were
staying at the homes that improper advances were
made. In one Instance an attempt to commit a crim
inal assault upon one of the Investigators was made.
Pointed Paragraphs
Few people live to reach the age of discretion.
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Many a titled foreigner marries ai) American
meal ticket.