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'HE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1913.
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“Proscription”
A GREAT deal of speculation is being indulged
in by the newspapers, particularly those of
the re-actionary type, as to the policy of
the president in the dispensation of official patron
age. It Is urged in effect that if the president fails
to appoint those applicants for office who opposed him
in the pre-convention campaign, such a policy will
amount to proscription against all who favored an
other candidate. Moreover, it is said that the ap
pointment of original Wilson supporters to office
in preference to those who opposed him, will amount
to a sort of party reprisal, and that such action by
the president would lead to party destruction.
It Is difficult to discuss with patience such utter
nonesense as this, and it is surprising indeed that
some newspapers seem to purposely misrepresent the
attitude of the president in respect to those who are
seeking appointment to office at his hands.
The Journal has no greater authority to speak
for the president than other newspapers and we do
not attempt to indicate his intentions further than
as those intentions have been officially given out.
In the light of the president’s declaration, it is im
possible to fairly attribute to him any such purpose
as some of the newspapers are indicating. The
president has announced in positive and unequivocal
terms that there is to be no proscription against
those who happened to support other candidates.
Evei) if no such announcement had been made, such
a policy would be foolish and narrow, and we do not
believe Mr. Wilson is capable of indulging in such
folly. ■ ,
The fact that there is to he no proscription, how
ever, does not mean that all of the intermittent and
chronic office seekers in Georgia and elsewhere are
to be rewarded with the appointments which they
seek.
»
There is a policy o- proscription and we fancy it
will be rigidly adhered to.
That policy is based not upon political support or
opposition, hut upon qualification and merit. If an
applicant seeks appointment to office, the question of
whether he was a Wilson man or an anti-Wilson man
previous to the Baltimore convention will not be
considered. Indeed, it is doubtful if the president
knows or has given the slightest thought to the
question of the personal attitude of a single appli
cant towards him in the convention. If he happens
to know that any of these applicants opposed him or
were, favorable to his nomination, this knowledge
will have not-even the slightest hearing upon his
action.
The question, and the sole question to he consid
ered by the president and the members of his cab
inet in the selection of officials, as publicly stated,
is fitness for office. This, of course, involves qualifi
cation and merit. ’
It is hardly to be expected that those who by
reason of their professional relation to trade combi
nations in violation of law have disqualified them
selves for official position will he sought out by the
president and appointed, when others of equal merit
and without such disqualification are< candidates.
Neither is it likely that those who belong to the
“give ’em hell” variety of. politicians, whose chief
claim to distinction in the campaign was the circula
tion of infamous and libellous slanders against the
personal character of the president will be selected
as persons eminently qualified for official position.
Such aspirants can hardly be considered as qualified
for office because appointees sould he in sympathy,
to a reasonable extent at least, with the policies of
the administration. No man can have the proper
sympathetic relation to the administration who
notoriously and conspicuously led in the warfare
that was waged against the president here in
Georgia.
Refusal - , therefore, to even consider such appli
cants cannot, with even a semblance of fairness, be
claimed as proscription by the president.
The true statement of the matter lies in the fact
that such applicants are utterly and totally disqual
ified for holding any office under the present admin
istration because their attitude is completely out of
harmony and sympathy with the policies of the ad
ministration.
The element of personal resentment,’ we are quite
Sure, does not and cannot enter into the considera
tion of such matters. But the elements of fitness
and qualification of all office seekers enter deeply into
the consideration, and in fact constitute the abso
lute and sole test of the right of such applicants to
hold official position.
Any other rule would be most unfair to all appli
cants. If one who is in every way qualified must be
displaced for one who is wholly disqualified because
forsooth the charge of proscription might be, made
such appointments would place a premium upon un
fitness. It would amount to punishdient for polit
ical expediency of those who in all respects fulfill
the requirements for official position, and a reward
for those who are without such qualifications.
The president, we imagine, will adhere closely
to the plan that he has already indicated, of basing
his selections upon fitness for office. This is the
only intelligent and just plan that can be pursued,
and under this plan no applicant will be treated un
justly.
The sole question to be determined is fitness.
If the candidate measures up to the proper qual
ifications, he will be appointed without reference to
whether he was Wilson or anti-Wilson in the early
stages of the campaign. If he does not measure up to
these requirements, he will not receive the appoint
ment he desires even though he may have been *\
leader among the Wilson advocates.
But we repeat that no man who is utterly out of
harmony with the administration, whether by reason
of professional or political affiliations, can possibly
nieasure up to that degree of fitness which is to be
the test. And no man, though he may be otherwise
qualified, who has by his conduct demonstrated that
he is utterly out of harmony and sympathy with the
administration’s policies has a right to expect even
slight consideration at the hands of the president.
Railroads As Developers
Of Farming Interests.
The fact that industrial and commercial interests
are lending their active support to the State’s agri
cultural development is one of the most cheering
omens of Georgia’s progress. Business leaders
realize that after all the soil is the basis of com
mon prosperity; that good crops mean good times,
that well conducted farms mean widespread thrift
and the quickening of all the springs of enterprise.
Hence we find today that chambers of commerce,
hoards of trade, hankers’ associations, manufactur
ers and railroads are all interesting themselves in
the cause of progressive and scientific agriculture.
The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad fur
nishes a recent instance in point. The passenger de
partment of this transportation company has just
offered a number of inviting prizes to stimulate the
work of the hoys’ corn clubs that they organized in
its territory. Most of the prizes consist of free
scholarships to the State College of Agriculture, but
there are others In the form of farm implements,
live stock, money and books on farming. These
prizes will quicken the interest and ambition of
hundreds of boys. They will prove a definite incen
tive to good farming; and the benefits .that will ac
crue to the various counties will return in abund
ance to the railroad itself.
It is very gratifying to see that the railroads of
Georgia and of the South are awakening to their
duty and their opportunity in this connection. They
have at their disposal effective and far-reaching
means for upbuilding the territory they traverse and
for attracting desirable settlers to the South’s idle
lands. Their activity in this field of enterprise is
hpartily to be commended.
A Story-^and Its Moral
To the State of Georgia.
In a Georgia city there lived not long ago a
widow and her two children—a hoy of sixteen and
his sister, two years younger. The mother, forced
to work for bread, was kept from home and the
children, thus neglected in their tormative years, fell
prey to wayward tendencies. The boy, upon his first
appearance in court, was sent to a reformatory
where he is being educated in a useful trade and
whence he will come forth equipped for good and
useful citizenship. But the girl’s story is trag
ically different. She was first expelled from school.
A few weeks later she was arrested one night in
evil company and on .being convicted was given the
alternative of paying a fine of twenty-five dollars or
of going to the stockade among calloused criminals.
The fine was paid from her mother’s scant earnings
but the girl remained without protection or guid
ance; and after several other offenses, she was sept
to a town some forty miles away where, it was ex
pected, she would find a home among relatives. It
so fell out, however, that when she arrived her kip
had moved away. And now, for the lack of timely,
intelligent help, for the lack of a haven which the
State should provide, this blossoming life is swept
utterly and, perhaps, hopelessly adrift.
This story is but one among hundreds that con-
tinualy cry out to the heart and conscience of this
commonwealth. Surely, the State of Georgia will
no longer withhold the hand of guidance and rescue
from such appeals. We have provided for the train
ing of wayward boys, and every dollar thus invested
is yielding abundant returns; but the State has no
institution whatsoever for the aid or reform of the
wayward girl. By this type of girl, is not meant
the incorrigible outcast but one whose moral sense
has weakened either through an unwholesome
environment or lack of home training or some neg
lected defect, one whose life needs only to be nur
tured and given the right soil to grow in, in order
thpt it may be good and useful.
A movement is now afoot, led by the Atlanta
branch of the oouthern Association of College
Women and heartily indorsed by court officials and
thoughtful citizens throughout the State, to secure
at the next session of the Legislature the enactment
of a bill providing for the establishment of a re
form school for such girls.
• A worthier endeavor could not be conceived. It u
earnestly to be hoped that the Geenral Assembly will
respond to this appeal, not simply as a matter of
sentiment hut for the sake of the State’s social wel
fare, for the sake of social justice and humanity.
Vital Statistics.
A movement to establish a statewide system of
vital statistics for Georgia will he started by the
Ninth District Medical Society at its ipeeting this
month in Gainesville. Pew enterprises could hear
more directly on the State’s social and sanitary
progress. Not only physicians but the public gener
ally should support this timely undertaking to the
end that it may be favorably received and acted upon
at the next session of the Legislature.
Complete and authentic records on births, deaths,
marriages and other subjects included in the general
term’ of “vital statistics” should be 'kept by every
county and compiled by a State bureau.
Until this is done, it will be impossiole for health
reforms or social reforms to proceed upon a thor
oughly intelligent and effective basis.
Before we can know where to turn or in what
direction to move, we must know definitely where we
are. There are divers problems which cannot be
solved or approached except through the aid of vital
statistics.
Georgia is now almost entirely without this
means of information and guidance. The deficiency
should be supplied.
Woman likes to exercise her sense of humor
when the joke is on some man.
A male never realizes how insignificant he is
until he attends a suffragette meeting.
Europe’s Unbalanced Power.
With a settlement of the Balkan war at hand, the
composure and restraint which Europe has shown
during that conflict is perceptibly shaken. When
fighting in the peninsula began, there was wide
spread anxiety that the larger Powers would he
drawn into the struggle. That fear has been belied
but it is now followed by an equally grave appre
hension concerning the international balance of
power, which the result of the Balkan war will
seriously menace, if it does not upset.
■ So long as Turkey, an unaggressive and almost
impotent government, held the key to southeastern
Europe, there was no occasion for alarm among the
greater nations. The Turkish regime, barbarous
though it was, served to allay or at least to keep
quiescent the suspicions and jealousies of the large
Powers. But when Turkey falls, as undoubtedly
she will, and her territory is given to more ambi
tious hands, when the forceful Balkan States, with
their Slav lineage and sympathy, supplant the weak
Moslem rule, then the latent jealousies and sus
picions will break out anew.
The Balkan allies have succeeded against all ex
pectation in merging their individual differences and
interests. They now constitute what is a confed
eracy in effect and what may become a confederacy
in name and continuous purpose. “A new Slav
power,” as the New York Sun remarks, “arises in
the southeastern corner of Europe, strengthening
the hands of Russia and weakening appreciably the
influence of Austria-Hungary. Thus the Triple Al
liance and the Triple Entente no longer hold the
scales of power in Europe evenly balanced; the
weight has gone down on the side of the Entente.”
Hence we find Germany attempting to raise some
two hundred and fifty million dollars for military
purposes and to increase its army to a peace footing
of eight hundred thousand men. France, as a coun
ter-move, has lengthened the term of required mil
itary service from two years to three and is prepar
ing to increase its army to seven hundred and fifty
thousand. England is rather complacent over the
situation. Germany, in view of its large army ex
penditures, has slackened its navy program, so that
the English maritime power will remain supreme
and unchallenged. Russia is apparently in an ag
gressive mood. Austria-Hungary is awake to its
threatened influence. The entire continent is in a
temper of uncertainty and a buzz of preparation for
the dubious future.
That there will he any open break or disturbance
among the powers, however, is not to be predicted.
It may be that the Balkan problem which has been
evaded so long will prove easier in its solution than
seemed ppssible. If the nations have preserved
peace through the trying period of the war against
Turkey, when all outward circumstances seemed to
threaten an upheaval, they should be able to do so
after th,e Balkan conflict is over.
The very seriousness of the situation will make
for prudent counsel. It is an interesting and rather
unexpected fact that the relationships between Eng
land and Germany have grown more amicable dur
ing the progress of the Balkan war than they have
been for years past.
Utilizing the Canal.
Mr. John Barrett, director general of the Pan-
American Union sounds a timely note of admoni
tion when he declares that in their pride and satis
faction over having built the Panama canal the peo
ple of *he United States sould not overlook or defer
the practical steps necessary to utilize it to their full
advantage when it is completed. The end of the
Government’s task in constructing this great water
way will mark the begining of the individual city’s
and merchant’s and manufacturer’s task in turning
it to definite commercial account.
The Panama canal is the greatest engineering
achievement in the world’s history. It is one of the
wonders of civilization. Its potential influence upon
trade and development is almost illimitable. Into
its construction have gone some four hundred mil
lion dolars and a priceless store of energy and
genius. It stands as the greatest single tribute to
the creative power of this nation.
These, however, are general and obvious truths.
The matter of particular importance is this: What
will the canal mean to the country’s practical inter
ests? What will it mean to the industry and com
merce of our cities? What will it mean to the
South which stands on the very threshold of the new
trade era that will be ushered in?
These are questions which the Government can
not answer. They must be answered by individual
enterprise and initiative. We must make ready for
the opening of the canal if we are to reap its bene
fits. We must follow the example of European in
terests that have been astir for several years past,
building ships, studying the needs and tastes of
South American markets, cultivating the good will
of South American trade. It is gratifying to know
that a movement to this end has been inaugurated
in the Southern Panama Canal Conference, which
was formed last autumn at a meeting of Southern
business men in Atlanta. It is through such efforts
that the canal will become a practical and contin
uous benefit as well as a marvelous achievement.
The Georgia Drainage Congress
The annual meeting of the Georgia Drainage
Congress which is to be held at Savannah next April
the second, merits and will doubtless receive the en
tire State’s cordial interest. The reclamation of
swamp and overflow lands is no longer a matter of
scientific theory or of merely individual concern in
this commonwealth; it involves the practical wel
fare of all the people. It has, been demonstrated
that these lands can he converted from useless and
disease-breeding wastes into productive farms. It
has been proved that they can he made to yield the
State’s treasury a handsome tax revenue. Indeed,
the reclamation movement is fairly under way and
its profitable results are already apparent. It re
mains for the Legislature to encourage and support
this good work, in order that its full benefits may
follow.
One of the purposes of the Drainage Congress is
to secure more adequate laws to this, effect. Several
seasons ago, the General Assembly authorized the in
corporation of drainage districts. That was a prac
tical step in the right direction and it has enabled
local enterprise to accomplish gratifying results. A
number of Georgia counties have undertaken the
drainage of their low river lands or swamp lands.
Thousands of acres are being transformed from ma
larial marshes into fertile, hibitable soil.
It is important that every possible encourage
ment be given this progressive and constructive
cause. The incoming Legislature can render no serv
ice more substantial than to amplify and perfect
drainage laws and to place the organized resources
of the State behind this useful endeavor. It is to be
hoped that the approaching congress will be largely
attended and that its plans will be wholly successful.
The Theater and Morals
By Dr. Frank Crane
There are a good many people yet who think that
an actor is usually a man of loose morals.
And there is no do.ubt that conditions of life behind
the scenes are not as a rhle con
ducive to the development>of the
best qualities of character.
The reason of this is a peculiar
and most human one. The por
tion of society that calls itself
“the best” (those organized in
churches for the moral uplift of
mankind) unfortunately fell into
the grievous error of stigma
tizing as bad a calling which in
itself is just as good as selling
dry goods and , might be made
just as helpful as preaching.
Get to the botttom of the mat
ter and you will admit, if you be
clear-minded, that acting is one
of the natural functions of men
and women. It is the first pro
fession of every child. The
baby’s first occupation is “playing” mother or father
or grocer or teamster or preacher.
Acting ought to be as honorable as preaching or
writing. It is a normal form of the interpretation
of life.
How did it come to have a bad name? Simply be
cause it gives pleasure. I do not like to say any hard
words i against Puritanism, because we owe to it many
a debt for its stanch righteousness and its deep sense
of human responsibility; but along with the angels
of Puritanism “Satan came also”; and the Satan was
a deep suspicion toward plain human happiness.
The stage fell under the ban of the church, and it
was a sad thing for both. For the theater did become
bad, according to the well known law that if you
continually call any class of people bad they tend to
become so.
.and the church was injured because, having taken
a false position, it felt bound to stick to it. There
is no consistency so terrible as the consistency of
those whose profession it is to be good.
Fortunately the theater is outgrowing its anath
ema. Some church circles still glower, but for the
most part society has come to recognize the inherent
worthiness of the profession of acting.
Mrs. James puts it justly, and not too strong, when
she says: “When conventional law \or public opinion
denounces as inexpedient what they cannot prove to
be wrong, stigmatize what they allow, take delight in
what they affect to condemn, what wonder that from
such barbarous, such senseless inconsistency, should
spring a whole heap of abuses and mistakes! As to
the idea that acting, as a profession, is incompatible
with female virtue and modesty, it is not merely an
insult to the estimable women who hav© adorned and
still adorn the stage, but to all womankind. It makes
me blush with indignation.”
The office seeker would also like to know, exactly
where he is at.
The Mexican troops were driven into Texas, but
Texas has been in such close touch with Mexico
from time to time that the experience was probably
not very novel.-.*
Colonel Roosevelt’s autobiography will sound
something like ancient history.
Aerogram^ From Antiquity
BY EDWARD J. COSTELLO
DOWNPATRICK IN ULSTER, Ireland, March 17
(A. D. 1185.)—The body of Patricius Succat, better
known as St. Patrick, the revered patron of Ireland,
was found here today, buried beneath the church bear
ing his name. It was transferred to another part of
the same building. The discovery was quite by acci
dent, some workmen having made it, but it is said
there can be no question as to the remains being those
of the great apostle. Just how they came in the
church is a mystery, moreover, for report had it that
St. Patrick was buried at Saul, near here, after his
death, in the latter years of the fifth century.
Ireland was not the birthplace of its famous pat
ron but many countries claim that distinction. The
most authentic story seems to be that he was born
in the village called Bonaven Taberniae, probably the
town of Kilpatrick, at the mouth of the river Clyde,
in Scotland, between Dumbarton and Glasgow. He
called himself both a Briton and a Roman, and it was
said his father was of good family, named Calphur-
nius. Some writers called his mother Conchessa, and
said she was niece, to St. Martin of Tours.
When he was about sixteen years old, according to
writers of the time, St. Patrick was carried off from
the farm where he was at work, by pirates, and sold
into slavery in Ireland. There his master employed
him as a swineherd on the well known mountain of
Sleamish, in th© county of Antrim, where he was
obliged to tend his flocks in hunger and nakedness,
amid snow, rain and ice. Here he passed seven years,
acquired a knowledge of th© Irish language, and made
himself acquainted with the manners, habits and cus
toms of the people. He escaped froip captivity, final
ly, and traveled into Gaul and Italy, and was succes
sively ordained deacon, priest and bishop, and then
once more, with the authority of Pope Celestine, he re
turned to Ireland to preach the gospel.
The crincipal enemies that St. Patrick found to the
introduction of Christianity in Ireland were the Druid-
ical priests of th e more ancient faith. Their obstinate
antagonsm was very great, but the apostle devoted
himself entirely to their salvation. In this disposi
tion he traveled over the whole island, penetrating
into the remotest corners, and such was the fruit of
his preachings and sufferings that he baptized an in
finite number of people. He ordained clergymen
everywhere. He converted and baptized the kings of
Dublin and Munster, and the £even sons of the king
of Connaught, with the greatest-part of their subjects,
and, before his death, almost everybody on the island.
After he h'd spent about twenty years in this mission
ary work he is said to have fixed his see at Armagh,
about 454.
A popular legend has it that St. Patrick drove the
venomous snakes from the island. Another is to the
effect that when preaching the doctrine of the Trinity
to the pagan Irish he used the shamrock, bearing three
leaves upon one stem, as a symbol of the great mys
tery.
Listen to the Dictagraph
A man does wonder if he knows all about his own
business. Every druggist sells a lot of things whose
names he isn’t sure he knows how to pronounce.
“Be careful, son,” remarked Grandpa Mintlicker,
“about bragging of your family tree. Too much pride
in the past is liable to be construed as an apology
for the present.”
A man’s willingness to get up early depends al
most entirely on whether he is going to work or going
fishing.
“Some day,” remarked the nice old gentleman, “you
may he president of the United States.” “Mebbe,”
replied the son of the very big business man, “but if
they want me they will have to raise the salary.”
' V ' ’
Plant Magic or Science?
By Frederic J. Haskin
The old song writer who called for “a cherry with*
out a stone” can now procure it. The fair lady who
sighed for rose^j without thorns and the small boy
who wished for thornless blackberry bushes are *nof
making unreasonable demands because these objects
are now easily obtainable. They have . been brought
about through the magiclike science of one man and
are trivial matters compared with the many greater
attainments in plant ‘development arid production he
has been able to bring about. Whether or not Lu
ther Burbank is going to fulfill all of the expecta
tions of those who are depending upon his ability to
make the desert yield a heavy addition to the food
supply of the worlA, there is no disputing the many
wonderful things he already has done while working
quietly and patiently upon his little experiment farm
in California. An apple that is sweet on one side
and sour on the other, with the color of the skin di
viding it into even halves of yellow and red; new wal
nut trees \vhich have the possibility of multiplying
the lumber production of the country; flowers and
fruits of new colors "and increased size, are only a
few of the many attainments of this maji who has re
ceived worldwide renown as the “plant wizard.”
• • •
No scientist ever received during his life time more
positive and gratifying recognition of his work from
the general public as well as from scientific societies
than has Mr. Burbank within the past fifteen years.
Before that time his work was paved with difficulties
as great as those experienced by most other scien
tists. He suffered privations of many kinds, and
even now is accused by some persons of being a mere
charlatan, who, by an adept use of printers' ink, has
achieved undue credit for his work. These detractors
are comparatively few, however, and the Scientific
men are disposed to credit most of the things he
claims, while thousands of enthusiastic admirers are
perhaps exaggerating his attainments and giving him
credit for work partially accomplished by other plant
breeders.
v . • .
Burbank’s work is based entirely upon scientific
principles. He has no secrets and each of his results
he is able to demonstrate in a thoroughly lucid man
ner. While he has been pronounced the greatest plant
breeder the world has ever produced, he Introduced
no special Innovations in t..e methods discovered by Dr.
Joachim Camerius, of Leipsic, who demonstrated the
sexuality of plants. in 1691. It was the recognition
of this principle which made possible the process of
hybridization. The first plant hybrid was produced in
1719 by Thomas Fairchild, an English gardener, who
crossed the sweetwllliam with the carnation. Another
Englishman. Thomas Henry Knight, has been called
the father of plant breeding. His work extended until
1838, and was based upon the scientific principles rec
ognized J>y Darwin and his followers. In all thrf
achievements of Luther Burbank there has been no
radical departure from the method3 of these earlier
men. Burbank’s genius lies in his wonderful patience
and the magnitude of his experiments. The breeding
of plants like the breeding of animals is dependent
upon crossing, or the securing of new individual prog
eny from parents of distinct species. Mutations or
changed forms spring up generally from unknown
causes as, for instance, wnen a colored flower yields
white blossoms. These mutations can be produced at
will by a careful study of their products as Luther
Burbank demonstrated when, by taking a yellow poppy
upon which he noticed some crimson lines, he in
creased its red in other generations, by selection, until
he has now been able to produce a field of crimson
popppies In place of the golden Eschscholtzla which
grows wild in such luxuriance in California.
...
It is doubtful if any scientist ever has given to
the world products of greater practical value than are
some of those which are credited to Luther Burbank.*
His first effort was towards the improvement of the
potato; to secure this he made his first great sacri
fices. Thirty-five years ago potatoes were round,
comparatively small and most of them red-skinned.
Now these old-fashioned potatoes are difficult to
find. The whole world raises the Burbank potato
which is long in shape, white skinned and several
times the size of the old-fashioned tuber. In his work
for the improvement of the potato Burbank accom
plished three things of universal benefit: He in
creased its size; multiplied the number which could
be produced In a single hiil, and improved the quality
and flavor. According to an estimate made by the
department of agriculture the Burbank improved po
tato is adding more thin . $17,000,000 annually to the
output of the country. It Is as well known abroad as
at home, and a careful estimate gives the sum of
$600,000,000 as the value which it has added during
thirty years to the farm incomes of the world.
...
So great has been the decrease in the production
of walnut trees that their extinction seems threatened
and the supply of black walnut lumber Is practically
exhausted. Now Burbank Is offering to the lumber
men a new walnut tree which possesses wonderful
advantages over the old. The old black walnut tree
was slow of growth. It took at least twenty years
under good conditions to produce a tree twenty-five
feet high and eighteen inches in circumference. The
new Burbank walnut tree in seventeen years will reach
a height of eighty feet and a circumference of eighty
inches. At a cost of $2 a tree for planting, this new
walnut in ten years will yield a lumber value of $3,000
an acre. It is a fine grained, hard wood capable of
taking a high polish in finishing. It is lighter in
shade than the old walnut', more nearly resembling
mahogany.
• * •
The results which Burbank obtains have been brought
about by the large number of plants he has under ob
servation in making a study, permitting him a wide
range of selection. Instead of having a few square
feet of ground or a new plant in pots, he uses acres
of ground, if necessary, in making a single test. In
stead of half a dozen or 5,000 plants in making a giv
en test, he may have a millllon, all of them similar.
Out of this million he may, perhaps, save only one
in the last sifting, but that one will be the best of all,
The rest are all likely to be destroyed by huge bon
fires which clear the ground for other plants.
HOO’S H O O
BY JOHN V7. CARET.
Who makes the little journeys to the Homes of
Famous Men? Who sent a note to Garcia that im
mortalized his pen? Who saves the wrapping paper
from his sausage
and his beans,
and uses it for
pages for his
books and maga
zines? Who bites
the edges of the
sheets on which
he prints his
dope, and binds
’em with a safety
pin or ties ’em
with, a rope?
Who says, "Now,
Ali Baba, boy,
they aren’t much
for looks, and
yet the ginks
will f aU for
them, because
they’re marked
‘d e luxe’”?
Whose" yen, at
that, entitle* him
to give the world
the ha? Elbertus Hubbard, Roycroft Shop—for
short. His Nobs, the Fra.