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6 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEEY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75c Six months 40c Three months 25c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a stafr of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are^ J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 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It is through them that the cause of scientific, as contrasted with hap hazard, methods of agriculture can he pressed for ward most speedily and most permanently. When they are made to feel that they have an active and definite part in the affairs oi the farm and in the advancement of their country’s interests, when they are given an opportunity to win honors and to pro duce results, they will have little inclination to abandon the life to which they were horn for that of the city. The old cry of “hack to the fi rm” has been suc ceeded by a wiser slogan, that of “stay on the farm.” And this appeal is being supported by intelligent ef forts to make rural life truly attractive, or rather to bring to the front those advantages which are inherent in rural life. Among the most interesting and, perhaps, the most effective of these efforts is that represented by the Boys' Corn club movement. This enterprise has not only increased the yield and improved the quality of corn in those States where it has been inaugurated. It has also quick ened and enriched the interest of the boys in their native environment. It has proved a wonderful agency in the agricultural education and progress of the South. It is gratifying to know that this con structive movement is to be extended throughout the nation. Rural Credits. The appointment of a committee by President Wilson to co-operate with the Southern Commercial congress in a study of rural credits marks a for ward step in an enterprise of the utmost importance to America’s agricultural interests. The govern ment’s aid in this undertaking -,,-as authorized at the last session of congress in recognition of the fact that a freer and more responsive system of farm loans is essential to the country’s progress. The South is particularly concerned in this mat ter. In order that its resources, and especially those of agriculture, may be duly developed it is necessary that ample capital he available at reasonable rates of interest. There are cheering indications that this problem will be worked out in the near future. In deed, the subject of farm loans is now appealing with unusual interest to foresighted business men. Institutions to meet this vital need are being estab lished, and when the way is once opened, results will no doubt speedily follow. The South is being brought into easier and more intimate connection with the sources of capital; and as this continues its development will hasten and increase. ' There is no better guarantee for loans and invest ments than a farm well situated in this section where a wondrous combination of natural advantages makes possible the production of practically every thing needed for man’s sustenance. The commission on rural credits established jointly by the govern ment and the Southern Commercial Congress will make a thorough study of farm credit systems in Europe, where this subject has long been considered; and from the information thus gained a plan suited to American needs will doubtless be perfected. .Scholars in Chinese Politics. The idea of the scholar in politics evldenly ap peals to progressive China. There has been appointed as assistant secretary of state in the cabinet of the republic a member of the 1912 graduating class of an American university; and he has under his direc tion seven other Chinese graduates of American col leges. The United States has good reason to be proud of the part it is thus playing in the transformation of a faraway land. The Chinese have modeled their republic largely after our own and from our his tory they have drawn much Inspiration for the splen did. task upon which they have entered. It is a distinctive fact of the Chinese that their dominant statesman have been of liberal scholarship and that education and character are the standards of public fitness. The movement that overthrew the Manchu dynasty was led by men of learning, by thinkers who had traveled far seeking the ideas and the culture of the world. For such a people, there is an abundant and hopeful future. Farm Marketing. State governments, as well as the federal gov ernment, are recognizing more and more widely the’ need of business methods and facilities in the con duct of the farm. It is not enough that crops be scientifically cultivated; they must also be mar keted economically, they must be well managed from seed to harvest time, from -the soil to the con sumer, if agricultural interests are to prosper and progress. The same principles that make a factory or a bank successful must be applied to the farm. If this is to he accomplished the State and the Nation, as well as the individual planter, must do their part, especially in respect .to the sale of prod ucts. Governor McGovern, of Wisconsin, has recom mended in his recent message to the Legislature the enactment of a bill establishing a State market com mission through which the farmer may he kept in formed concerning the supply, the demand and the prices of commodities and through which he may he brought into more direct contact with the con sumer. From the rural communities of Wisconsin, there has come an insistent demand for the State’s co-operation in placing farm interests on a business like basis and in protecting them against monopo listic or speculative schemes. The farmer must know his market before he can proceed intelligently. It has been estimated that of a nine-billion dollar food crop in the United States about three billions, or one-third, remains on the farm, so that the pro ducers actually sell something like six billion dollars worth. But by the time these products have reached the consumer, their cost has risen to thirteen billion dollars. This it is evident that between the producer and the consumer there now stretches a great gulf of unnecessary waste and expense. If only a fraction of this intermediate cost could be wiped out, the consumer no lees than the farmer would be benefited an* the burdensome expense of living would be appreciably reduced. When the pro ducer receives only six billions and the consumer pays thirteen billions, there is clearly some radical defect in the system of farm marketing. This dif ference of seven billion dollars arises partly of course from necessary and legitimate expenses, for instance, of transportation and of a fair profit to the distri butors. It is nonetheless evident, however, that a tremendous saving could be effected by the estab lishment of shorter and easier methods for bringing the farmer’s products to the consumer’s pantry. A market commission directed y the State or the federal government, or better still by each of them, would go far toward accomplishing this use ful end. Senator Hoke Smith’s bill creating a divis ion of markets in the United States department of agriculture is directly in line with this progressive purpose. The national government can render ines timable service by keeping the farmers continually informed concerning the demand for farm products in trade centers and the current movement of such products. A State government would promote the welfare of all its people by supplementing such an enterprise with a view toward giving the farmers of a particular section more detailed and local in formation. It will be interesting to watch th'e progress of the proposed movement in Wisconsin. If such a measure as Governor McGovern recommends is en acted, it will prove a far-reaching advantage to his State and other commonwealths will inevitably fol low the example. A Just and Generous Policy Toward Latin America. President Wilson’s statement concerning his ad ministration’s policy towarn Central and South America should allay all suspicion that this Gov ernment covets any of the rights or property of its neighboring republics and it should also serve as a timely warning to adventurers and trouble-breeders who may seek to overturn the peace and law of (.hose countries for their personal or selfish in terests. The President declares that one of the chief ob jects of his administration will be “to cultivate the friendship and deserve the confidence of our sister republics of Central and South America and to pro mote in every proper and honorable way the inter ests that are common to the people of the two con tinents.” At the same time he emphasizes the truth that “there can be no freedom without order based upon law and upon the public conscience and ap proval.” For all Latin American leaders and peo ples who recognize and conform to this essential of liberty and progress, the United States will hold the friendliest and most sympathetic regard; but for “personal intrigue and defiance of constitutional rights” it will have no toleration. Under this just and far-seeing policy, the rela tionships between our own nation and its Latin neighbors should be cordial and commonly helpful. If the United States is to enjoy profitable trade with Central and South American countries, it must as sure them that it has no selfish designs upon their territory; it must also assure them that It will not connive at schemes to overthrow tneir estab lished and constitutional governments. Upon this broad basis f fair play and genuine friendship, the commerce between North and South America should develop rapidly, If the peo ple of the latter are equally responsive and sincere. Tariff revision will be the only subject for the extra congress, showing that the Democrats are not going hack on their promises. Mr. William J. Harris For Census Director. It is announced through The Journal’s Washing ton dispatches that Secretary of Commerce Redfield has certified to the President, with his official recom mendation, the appointment of Mr. William J. Har ris, of Georgia, as director .of the United States census and that the President will send Mr. Harris’ nomination to the Senate when Congress convenes in extra session on April the seventh. It is a matter of cordial satisfaction to the en tire State that so important a trust and so distinc tive an honor are to be conferred upon a Georgian. Mr. Harris is pre-eminntely qualified for the census directorship. His business ability and attainments together with his familiarity with public life and his genius for organization will make him a credit to t*his responsible post. Incidentally, It Is of in terest to note that Mr. Harris was one of the “orig inal” Wilson men in the South and that he rendered valiant service not only in the pre-convention con test but also duri..g the regular campaign. He is now chairman of the State Democratic executive committee and has served with distinction in the State senate. He has the congratulations and good wishes of all Georgia. The Weakness of Cursing By Dr. Frank Crane We may be permitted to doubt whether it has ever done much good to tell men how bad they are. Scolding, fault-finding, satire, irony, lampooning, exposing, cursing and condemn ing are all interesting and easy. Everybody seems born with a knack for this sort of thing. But the whole business is a business of weakness, not of strength. Swearing is a symptom of a lack of proper vocabulary. A man is profane because he has not the power to express his feelings with satisfactory force in good English. A woman scolds because she doesn’t know enough to get her own way by diplomacy and love. It is the woman who is impotent to control her child that hectors him. It is the consciousness of her lack of proper influence over her husband that causes her to nag him. Complaint is the language of failure. It is the utterance of self-pity, and self-pity, is the effort of a contemptible spirit to attract attention. The only trade in which a failure can be success ful is fault-finding. In that occupation the les3 your ability the sharper your triumph. There are two kinds of critics, interpretative and destructive. The former seek to help the reader un derstand the author; such are rare, some of tliem are great. The latter seem to regard every work as a challenge, they attack it with all the airs and poses of jealous egotism; such are plentiful, all of them are small. Th© glibness of cursing is fatal. There are two kinds of prophets and preachers. One kind berate the people for their wickedness; the other helps the people to discover their goodness. The former draws crowds. The latter helps along. Jeremiah has a deal more to say in the Bible than Jesus. Jeremiah was the forerunner of downfall, Jesus the redeemer of the world. The majesty of Jesus lay in his amazing power of seeing good in everybody—except Pharisees. To my mind there was nothing recorded ’hat Jesus ever did that is greater than his action toward the wcunan taken in adultery, where He simply declined to curse her (what an opportunity the orthodox moralist thinks He missed!), and said: “Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.” Says Goethe: ‘“When I have called bad bad, how much is gained by that? The man who would work aright must not deal in censure, must not trouble himself about what is bad,, but show and do what is good.” * Listen to the Dictagraph Speaking of modern duplicity; they do say that the gold bricks they used to sell were much more neatly made than those now on the market. • * * Some men get careless about money matters be cause their wives don’t criticize them any differently for losing a thousand dollars than for forgetting to wind the clock. * • * “I am a Socialist and I want everybody to divide his possessions with me.” “So am I; and I am will ing to make good. All I possess is mortgaged prop erty and a dyspeptic tendency ” V V • Things might be worse in every way! When the old mule, with might and main, kicks up, be patient as you say, “Thank Heaven he’s not an aeroplane!” Pointed Paragraphs For our part, we are content to feel that the rain fall has done its t orst. The weather last Sunday really suggested Easter advanced on the calendar a whole week. ■ What Texas wants to do is to keep the Mexican boll weevil from crossing the border. Huerta probably wonders how long it will be- before he becomes an ex-president. No dollar diplomacy for us. The old shirt sleeve style is good enough for Uncle Sam. Now that so many world problems are in a fair way of being solved, we have a new one before us. It is What to wear on Easter Sunday. President Wilson has also assured the great body of American people that he will be friendly to baseball. The Extra Session. I President Wilson’s brief and formal pronounce ment calling an extra session of congress for April the seventh does not indicate the particular legisla tion to be considered. It is commonly understood, however, that the chief, if not the only, task then to be undertaken will be that of tariff revision. Mr. Wilson stated immediately after his election that he would convene a special session of congress for this purpose. The party’s prime pledge is a readjust ment of the existing tariff schedules. That is what the country demands and what business interests, great and small, expect. The sooner this work is completed, the better will it he for everyone con cerned. For several months past the ways and means committee of the house has been diligently engaged in the preliminaries of tariff revision. The various interests likely to be affected by a change in the present duties have been given ,a hearing. The out lines of the hills to be presented are now being drawn and by April the seventh the committee will be ready to report. Thus the processes of revision, which are neces sarily complex, have been greatly simplified and measures looking to genuine tariff reform can he pressed through the extra session without tedious delay. The advantage of a session where the tariff alone will be considered is obvious. This issue, which was paramount in the last campaign and for which the people have so long demanded a square settle ment, merits undivided attention. It must be settled in the consumer’s interest, yet with a prudent re gard for the great economic fabric with which it is interwoven. There should not, and will not, be any revolutionary course in this matter, but at the same time revision should be “steadily and unhesitatingly downward.” It is a significant fact the country's business awaits the Democratic tariff revision with thorough confidence and composure. There is a nationwide conviction that the -wrongs of the tariff must be righted in order that we may have true prosperity; and a nationwide assurance that the administration’s steps toward this end will he well and wisely con sidered. GUITRY T0PIOD Concerts Enrons. v: hjeltoa SMILE. Like bread without the spreading 1 , Like a puddin’ without sauce, Like a mattress without beddin’, Like a cart without a hoss, Like a door without a latchstring-, Like a fence without a stile, Like a dry and barren creek bed, Is a face without a smile! Like a house* without a dooryard, Like a yard without a flower, Like a clock without a mainspring, That will never tell the hour; A thing that sort o’ makes yo’ feel A hunger all the while— Oh, th e saddest sight that ever was Is a face without a smile! The face of man was built fer smile, An’ thereby is he blest Above the critters of the field. The birds an’ all the rest; He’s just a little lower Than the angels in the skies, An’ the reason is that he can smile; Therein his glory lies! So smile, an’ don’t forgit to smile, And* smile, an’ smile ag’in; ’Twill loosen up the cords o’ care, An’ ease the weight o’ sin; ’Twill help yo* on the longest road, An’ cheer yo’ mile by mile; An’ so, whatever is your lot, Jes’ smile, an’ smile, an’ smile. —Augustin W. Breeden in the National Magazine. There is a big volume of philosophy in these lines above quoted. i*.nd why not smile? The good Lord has been too good to you to carry a grouch, even if you are little and unknown. You owe that smile to your family and your wife will lose her worries if she can se you smile. I don't mean you must laugh at her, or laugh at anybody who is worried or w’ o has made mistakes. It is a long step between friendly smile and a boisterous hors e laugh. It is the kind, encouraging smile that I am persuading you to encourage and per fect in your daily life. Be good to yourself while you are being good to others and make your way in peace and comfort by aid of the smile. THE TYRANNY OF PARTY POLITICS. I verily believe that our new congressmen, when they are asking votes, are generally honest and be lieve what they say when they tell the voters that they will vote against extravagance and try to con duct public business according to common sens e and an eye to the people’s interests. They stay in that mind until they start to Wash ington City, but then there is a new story to be heard and to be told. They are then, as they tell you, obliged to do what the caucus says do, and the time was when railroad magnates put in enough men to rule the caucus. I hear it said very frequently that Standard Oil and the steel trust have been rul ing the caucus. I have been too far away to see the grip of the “octopus.” We were promised economy with a big E to it two years ago, when a Democratic house was elected in 1910 They were going to put a check on extravagance, and do it with a “big stick.” I have no doubt but they felt that way until they got to Washington City. Then it became a horse of an other color. The house c_ representatives, controlled absolutely by Democrats, passed a pension bill last week, .taking $200,000,000 out of the tax payers’ money. The report of the committee was brought in by a Georgia mejnber who said he was opposed to it per se, but his party said “pass it,” and he would vote with his party. He * ad promised to vote down extravagance, and h e was sent • - Washington to vote down such outrageous extravagance; he pledged him self to his constituents to vote it down, and yet when the time came to stand to his pledges he chose to fol low his party, and thus explained his failure to vote down the bill which, by head and shoulders, far above any other pension grab ever known to the United States. I presume he does not expect to run again for the same office and hopes to get a plum from some other tree, but his duty to party has been a most expensive affair to the people of this country. ONE WHO LOVES NATURE. Madison, Ga., Mar. 10, 1913. Mrs. W. H. Felton: Dear Madam:—Would you be so kind as to tell me some houses that buy and sell butterflies and moths? I am crazy about such things. I love nature. I love the woods. I certainly would appreciate it if you can tell me where to find a house that handles such things. Sincerely, H. W. ATKINSON. Aerograms From Antiquity BY EDWARD J. COSTELLO PARIS, March 18 (A. D. 1662).—A modern transit system was established formally here today, when seven lines of vehicles called “omnibuses” were opened for the benefit of lawyers, doctors “and others of the indigent class.” These “carryalls” for the easy trans portation of the people to and from the suburbs are with the authority of his majesty, King Louis XIV, who permitted the organization of a rapid transit com pany with the Duke de Roanes at its head. Much royal ceremony marked the inauguration of the serv ice this morning at 7 o’clock, when the vehicles began their daily trips. The royal dedree under which the company ope rates provides that the seven coaches, each containing eight seats and no place for straphangers, shall run at fixed hours, full or empty, between the extreme quarters of Paris. This service is stated to be “for the benefit of a great number of persons ill-provided for, as persons engaged in lawsuits, their lawyers, in firm people, and their leeches, and others, who have not the means to ride in chaise or carriage, which cannot be hired under a pistole or .a couple of crowns a day.” Before the coaches started this morning, two com missaries of the Chatelet in legal robes, four guards of the grand provost, half a score of the city archers and as many cavalry, drew up in front of the assem bled people. The commissary delivered a splendid adress upon the advantages of the new omnibus sys tem, exhorted the riders to observe good order, and then, turning to the coachmen, covered the body of each with a long blue frock, with the arms of the king and the city showily embroidered on the front. Thus handsomely decorated, the coachmen drove off, their vehicles jammed to the S. R. O. point. But through out today a provost guard rode in each - carriage to maintain the peace and dignity of the kingdom, and infantry and cavalry, here and there, proceeded along the requisite lines to keep them clear. For the fifst few hours it seemed as if the whole of Paris was striving to ride in the omnibuses. All along the streets crowds collected and impatient citi zens signalled the coachmen, only to see them slip by at full speed. Although Intended for the poorer classes, the wealthy people of the city seemed in en tire possession of the vehicles today. It is expected that as soon as th© novelty wears off the transit lines will become popular with the masses. One suggestion which came during the day was that coachmen be required to stop at street corners on sig nal, anu to permit passengers to at least enjoy the privilege of balancing themselves on straps. This somewhat original plan was communicated to the Duke de Roanes, who said if the people only would be pa- Marking the Alaskan Boundary By Frederic J. Flaskin When the United States purchased Alaska from Russia it was believed that there never could arise between it and Great Britain a dispute over the boundary between the territory and British Columbia. The boundary was fixed under a treaty, made in 1825, between Russia and Great Britain, one end oflt to consist of the 141st meridian, and the other end to be constituted by a line drawn across the summit of several mountain peaks, from Mount St. Elias to and through the Portland canal. So sure were those interested that the boundary was plainly fixed that Charles Sumner declared:* "I am glad to begin with what Is clear and beyond question. I refer to the boundaries fixed by the treaty/* • • • Concerning the 800-mlle stretch from the Arctic ocean southward, with the boundary consisting of the 141st meridian, there could be no dispute which could not be solved by careful measurements, but southward of that the other 600-mile stretch Is made up of an ir regular boundary separating the Alaskan panhandle from the territory of British Columbia. As far back as 1878 a dispute between England and the United States arose, and a modus vivendi with reference to the Stikine river was entered into, and a similar agree ment composed for the time being the differences that arose in 1899 relating to th© country at the head of the Lynn canal. • • • Negotiations for th- permanent settlement of the disputed boundaries were entered into shortly there after, and these resulted In the negotiation of a treaty in 1904, creating the tribunal of London, com posed of six eminent jurists, three irom each coun try, which was to hear the evidence in the case and to settle the controversy once and for all. This tribunal heard the evidence, reached its decision, and a com mission to carry out its views was appointed, all within eight months after the signing of the treaty. The tribunal determined which mountain peaks wer© referred to in the treaty of 1825, and marked them on a map for the use of the commission upon which devolved the physical task of fixing the bound ary in accordance with the findings of the tribunal. The commission consisted of O. H. Tittman, of the United States coast and geodetic survey, and W. E. King, representing the English government: They had to identify the peaks fixed by the tribunal of London, and mark each, turning point in the line with stone monuments wherever possible. There was one stretch of 120 miles that was fixed by the tribunal only within certain limits, and the commission was authorized definitely to fix the exact boundary In this stretch. Before the discovery of gold in Alaska few people bothered their heads about boundaries in what seemed to be desolate region where all the land in dispute was not worth the money and pains it would cost to settle the argument. But when the rush to the Klon dike began th© Canadian government constructed a telegraph overland to Dawson, while the United States laid a cable from Seattle to Sitka, and a telegraph line to- Valdez and Fort Egbert. It was then that Alaska became worth considering, and the United States and Grea* Britain pointed to different mountain peaks as those referred to in the treaty of 1825, with the result that the treaty creating the tribunal of| London followed apace. * • • • The real work of marking the Alaskan boundary, under the direction of the Alaskan boundary commis sion, fell upon the shoulders of Thomas Riggs, Jr., the American engineer in charge, and his associates, while Canada had a similar party In the field working In conjunction with them. Mr. Riggs was no “new” man when he went to Alaska to help tie a ground boundary to th© stars, and to fix it so permanently and so definitely that even though mountains were to remove themselves into the sea and valleys were to rise up into hills, that boundary would still be fixed. He had “hit the trail” when gold was discovered in Alaska, and had wrestled with the transportation problems upon whose solution depends the opening up of this virgin empire of natural wealth. • • • The work of marking the Alaskan boundary will have cost the United States approximately $750,000 when it is finished next . ear. It represents some of the best boundary work in th© world, and the 600-mile section of it reaching from Mount St. Ellas to the Arctic ocean, is the world’s longest exactly surveyed straight line. The southern part of this line had to be run across mountains covered with perpetual snows and over glaciers of eternal ice. But as the work progressed northward the elevation became lower, and from the White river to the Arctic there is a brief summer season fre© from ice and cold, and a region where game on the land and game in the water abound in profusion—white sheep in unnumbered thousands, wide-antlered moose, caribou and bear—- and where, in the words of Mr. Riggs, greyling are not caught with hook and line, but are kicked out of the water. • • • i The boundary is being marked by clearing off all timber for a distance of ten feet on either side. At points always within sight of on© another aluminum- bronze monuments are set up to locate the exact posi tion of the line. At important river crossings and along highways of travel these monuments are five feet high, and are embedded in a ton of concrete; at less important points monuments three feet high, planted in 1,500-pound concrete bases, are set up. These points are geodetically determined, or located by the stars. They will serve as the basis of all fu ture surveys m • • • While the line was being run the-topographers wer# at work with their plrne-tables, plotting the country around. They climbed up to the tops of mountain peaks where they could get a good view of the sur rounding country, and recorded on their plane-table sheets the elevations, the drainage, and even the char acter of the timber. A line of precise levels was run by which the elevation above the sea of any given point could b e determined. The resulting maps are said to be about the best example of the surveyor’s art that have been made on any boundary. * • • The difficulty of mnning such a long line was per haps greater than any encountered in recent history. For over 200 miles across perpetual snow and primeval glaciers, the supplies of the surveying party had to be carried on the backs of horses .Two miles an hour and six hours a day represented good progress. Upon one occasion It took the pack train twenty-three days to travel less than 200 miles, and of the seventy-five horses with which it started, only forty-iour reached their destination. * * * In the summer the mosqutoies were often so bad that mosquito netting and bandana handkerchiefs were a necessity, and the horses had to be covered from head to tail and from ear to hoof before they could graze In the open. But in winter huge fires had to be built to thaw out things, the packers’ fingers were frozen and hardship and danger were the rule, and comfort and peace the exception. tient, he could guarantee that the era of the strap hanger woul<’ roll around in due time. Which is taken to mean that here in Paris the manager vf tran sit is very wide awake.