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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913. - THE SEMI-WEEKLY 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 750 Six months 40c Three months 25c The Semi-Weekly Jotirnal 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 staff of distlnguis ied contributors, with strong department* of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfft 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- j brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. Chief Justice White and a Fallacious Cotton Tax The New York Evening Post seasonably calls at tention to the interesting fact that the fallacy and injustice of such a tax as the Senate is now asked to impose on contracts for future delivery of cotton were laid hare twenty-one years ago by a Southern senator, who is now chief justice of the United States Supreme court. In 1892 a similar scheme to tax fu tures and options i-i cotton, wheat and other commo- dites and to do so under the cover of tariff legislation was vigorously opposed by Senator Edward D. White, of Louisiana, as his title then was, who condemned the proposed measure as contrary to the Constitution and also as a 'menace to a great field of legitimate business and agricultural interests. And it was ow ing largely to his cogent analysis of the fraud and the peril of such a tax that was defeated. “His Constitutional argument twenty-one years ago," says the Post, “went to several points. The tax was di: criminatory. It singled out cer tain products and omitted -others (an injustice even more apparent in the tax now proposed.) Furthermore, it was pointed out by Senator, now Judge, White that the tax would be upon a form of contract which the Courts had held to be valid. It was not a gambling transaction that was to be penalized. State courts and Federal courts—in cluding the Supreme court—had held that con tracts for future delivery were perfectly lawful, provided that either of the parties had ‘an 5 honest intention to deliver.' But the argument upon which Mr. White in 1892 laid most stress was that the proposed tax was a fraud on its face. It pretended to u revenue measure. In reality jt was a punitive statute. And what Senator White declared that the Supreme court would do to such a bill, if it ever came before it, has great pertinence at a time when he is the presiding judge of that court.” - rus opinion was, in effect, that the Supreme court would brush such an act aside as “a flagrant and open violation of the Constitution.” The Senators of the present time will do well to t:.ke note of the view held by so i .stinguished a predecessor and to profit by the reasoning and the facts which he brought to bear upon an issue in all essentials the same as that now pending. The suggested tax of fifty cents a bale on con tracts for future delivery of cotto has bestirred Wide spread and well-warranted protest, particularly among mechants and farmers and commercial bodies in the South, whose interests are vitally concerned. Such contracts, as The journal has ireviously pointed out, are a thoroughly legitimate means for the honest dealers’s protection against ruinous losses in the con tinually fluctuating price of cotton. Without the safeguard afforded by such contracts, it is doubtful that extensive cotton business could be conducted. A tax like that proposed as a rider to the pending tariff bill would be as harmful to the farmer as to the man ufacturer and merchant, for, it would inevitably lower the price of cotton. It is unjust, uncalled for; and, as the New York Evening Post pertinently remarks: "From the folly of having temporarily approved of this tax, Democratic senators should retreat as soon and with what dignity they can.” Everybody works but father was not spoken of vacation times. A Victory for Arbitration It is a matter of keen satisfaction the country over that the employees and officials of the eastern railroads have responded to President Wilson’s time ly counsel and are now fairly on the way toward a just and quiet settlement of their differences. This course of action has not only averted a strike that would probably have imposed hardship upon both parties directly concerned and well-nigh irreparable injury upon the public, it has also ex emplified more luminously perhaps than ever before the power and the righteousness of the arbitration principle. The White House conference, made possible through the President’s initiative, brought togeth- . er the heads of the railroads and of the labor or ganization. It opened the way for the constructive influence of sober reasoning and engendered on both sides a spirit of conciliation. Especially interesting is the fact that it hastened the enactment of the Newlands-Clayton bill, provid ing for the arbitration of wage disputes in a man ner satisfactory to the roads and their employees alike. This measure, which had been pending, was rushed to passage in order to meet this particular emergency. Arbitration is the fair and economical basis on which all s^uch differences should be adjusted. It _ conserves the interests of those directly involved in an issue and, what is supremely important, it pro- 'c-cts the rights and security of the public, which ’ erwise is helpless. NOTICF TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route pl'ease give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. - Address all orders and notloes for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. I he Popular Demand For Drainage in Georgia. The reclamation of swamp and overflow lands in Georgia, far- from being a subject of purely scientific interest, is one of intensely practical concern to huh- dreds of farmers and to the communities in which they • live. From Whitfield county, for instance, there has come an insistent appeal for the govern ment’s aid in making drainage surveys of the country about Coahulla creek some miles east of Dalton. Thi stream overflows in such a way as to inundate or render useless thousands of acres along its banks. Land that is naturally very fertile is thus being kept from cultivation and its owners are suffering a loss which, indirectly at least, is reflected upon the entire community. This is but one among many instances in every part of Georgia showing the demand for an adequate reclamation policy on the part of the State. Few in dividuals are able to solve such problems with their personal resources. Indeed, drainage enterprises are essentially public in their nature and require public initiative and support. The federal government has offered to spend five thousand dollars annually for a period of five years in making drainage surveys throughout Georgia, if the State will appropriate a corresponding amount. This is an opportunity which the present Legislature should seize, for, it opens the way to the reclamation and the increased tax value of a vast area of land which is now yielding practically no retui^ either to its individual owners or to the public treasury. The people, am particularly the farmers, have awakened to the vital need and value of such drain age, realizing that it will release thousands of acres for agricultural -evelopmenc and will also protect the community’s health against malaria and other diseases. This truth has taken a firm hold on the popular mind in north Georgia as well as in south Georgia; it appeal; to merchants and manufacturers as well as to farmers. Few acts of the General Assembly would eUcit approval so widespread as one that would make possible the carrying out of a State wide program of swamp and overflowed land reclam ation. President Wilson gained twelve pounds on his vacation, but even so he isn’t a Taft in size. The woman who marries a man to reform him has no time to waste improving her complexion. Many a man who has been selfish all his life has nothing to show at the final round-up except the ill will of his neighbors. A Land of the Unexpected. The ghost of Elsinore was not more fitful or per turbed than the inconstant spirit of the Balkan con test: “’Tis here, ’tis there, ’tis gone,” and anon it reappears in some unexpected quarter to bestir new plots in that troublous land and to vex with new problems all the nations of Europe. From its out break nearly a year ago, the peninsula war has been a hurrying series of surprises. Thousands of lives have been sacrificed and vast areas of fertile country have been desolate;' yet, today the situation is more uncertain and perplexing than over. Few men believed at the beginning of this war that the little Balkan States, however, stanchly they might fight together would be able to overthrow Turk ish rule in Southeastern Europe. The Moslem army, famed for its vigor and discipline, was expected to crush its enemy in the first few battles; and, that failing, it was considered a matter of course that the larger Powers would never permit the dismember ment of the Turkish empire and the consequent rise of a strong Slavic confederation. But the successes of the Allies were as numerous as they were rapid, so that within comparatively a few months Turkey had been brought to humble appeals for peace and the Powers were preparing to accept a new map and a new era. But scarcely had the new boundaries been tenta tively decided upon than the Allies fell out with one another. Bulgaria sought to impose terms of her own upon her joint-laborers Servia and Greece; the latter resented and then resisted such a program and soon the peninsula was trembling again with the clash of battle. The result is that today we find the Turks militant and ready at a moment’s oppor tunity to snatch back the lands they had surrendered. The Balkan alliance seems hopelessly broken. Bulga ria has fallen from her rapidly won pre-emienee to a position of pitiful inferiority. None of the Balkan States is able unaided to retain the fruits of the com mon victory against the Turk. The great Powers thus far show a disposition to let the smaller ountries fight out their differences. Austria and Germany are eager that such a policy prevail, for, they are naturally alarmed at the pros pect of a strong Slavic union on their flank. Indeed, with the possible exception of Russia, the Powers seem to be of the opinion that the most satisfactory condition which can obtain in the Balkans is that which existed prior to the recent war, when the bal ance of power lay ,n the hands of Turkey, a govern ment which because of it very weakness was unlikely to breed international trouble. It is scarcely credible, however, that Turkey will be permitted to re-invest any considerable portion of the territory she has lost, even should she be phys ically capable of doing so. While t. e Balkan States are now relatively weak and are divided, their rights and interests nevetheless command consideration. Russia is peculiarly concerned in the fortunes of her Slav neighbors and present omens indicate that, she will throw her in-uence to the side of peace. In such a movement she would doubtless be supported by England and France. , Certainly, It is to the interest of the Balkan States and to the larger cause of ogress and civili zation that the differences among Bulgaria, Greece and Servia be composed in order that they may pro ceed to the great tasks of development and emancipa tion which lie before them. Turkey has proved her self unworthy of place or power in the affairs of Europe. The people and the countries that have been freed from her withering influence should re main so. It’s easy to fool the man who thinks he knows it all. Fortunately for the summer girl the hammock cannot talk. The vagrant straw hat shows which way the wind blows. The young man who is looking for promotion should consult a promoter. Aeroplanes will be more of a success when the aviators are able to control the weather. Most of us would accept the burden of enough wealth to draw down a big income tax. The Man of the World BY DR. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright, 1913. by Frank Crane.) The Man of the World Is the noxious triumph of the disease called civilization. Fvolhtion wears him as a little poison flower in its buttonhole. He is exquisite in is dress and in his food. Is not ihe meat more than life, and rai ment than the body? He is so completely the crea ture of fashion that he is creator of fashion. He is utterly sophisticated. He is considered interesting because nothing any more interests him. The two things that make life worth living and the two things he considers most ridiculous— wonder and enthusiasm. He is proud of his ignorance of till that is useful and of his fa miliarity with all that is use less. He knows the flavors and smells of expensive cigars and the bouquets of wines, but would consider it a disgrace to know a hickory tree from an elm, and a calamity to know how to run a locomotive. To him true and loyal love is a joke, and all virtue hypocrisy. Love, which alone is the fountain of youth, is dried up in him. The bats and lizards of lust' inhabit his heart. His heart is a thousand years old. He is farthest removed from that childishness which makes sound souls, and his keenest pleasures are Mephistophelian. His religion is a witty pessimism. The most enjoyable things to him are subtle sins. He attracts women as a serpent lures birds, by the fascination which anything utterly cruel possesses. He has a certain tranquility of soul, for he is never worried by temptation, he always yields. He is a weasel before whose assurance lions trem ble. Anything important he studiously neglects, and is serious only in trifles. If he has a wife she detests him; if he has a mis tress she fears him; if he has children they hate him; if he has a mother she is ashamed of him. He moves in the narrowest of provincial worlds, the/smart set. He lives in terrible isolation, for where there is no loyalty there are no friends. He has no inseparable companion but himself, and himself he hates. When he dies he will be no different from when he is alive; he will b e dirt then as now. The only change will be that he will cease to wear a polished shirt. His epitaph shall be the words of Margarete; “Es steht ihm an der Stirn geschrieben, Dass er nlcht mag eine Seele lieben.” (It stands writtten upon his brow That he could not love a human soul.) An Acquired Habit of Unfairness (Albany Herald.) The fact that Congressman Bell had his nomina tion of Editor Hardy for the Gainesville postmaster ship turned down, plus the other fact that Senator Hoke Smith, for good reasons of his own, declined when called upon by the congressman to go to his rescue, does not, when fairly interpreted and taken into con sideration with some other well known facts necessa rily impU, as some of the factional organs are assert ing -With great show of indignation and resentment, that “no Underwood man need apply" for appointment to a federal office in Georgia. it is perfectly natural that Congressman Bell should feel a little sore over having his nominee for the post mastership at his home town‘turned down, but it must be admitted that h. was unfortunate, to say the hast of it, in his selection of one for either Senator Smith to indorse or President Wilson to appoint, assuming that they are both “just human” and have loyal friends who have some claim on their good office* to serve. Congressman Bell’s “statement” which ’-e gave out to the press made tne assertion that some “hidden in fluence” seemed to be at work in Washington to deny any patronage to any in Georgia who had not sup ported President Wilson in the primary, and this as sertion was made in a way to create the impression that that “hidden influence” was tucked away some where in the person of Senator Smith. What a big man the political enemies of Hoke Smith make him out to be, and how they do magnify his power and influence when Jt suits their purposes to do so! Certain newspapers and politicians in their power to belittle and discredit him ever since he has been in politics now seem to be engaged in an effort to have it appear that he is all-powerful, exercising an Irre sistible influence in Washington, and that he is, there fore, responsible for the defeat of every man in Georgia who apnies for a federal job and fails to get it. But some newspapers and politicians in Georgia seem to have acquired the habit of being unfair to Hoke Smith, and they just can’t shake it off or live it down. Protection That Is Sorely Needed. OUrtTRY T1MELV OME T0PIC3 V'Comocva Brians, uairam SPLIT-UP SKIRTS. If our fashionables feel obliged to wear dress skirts so narrow and skimpy that they are in constant dan ger of falling or being tripped up, then I can see a rea son for slitting the skirt to the knees to promote loco motion. As we are living in an athletic age for young women, they surely need to be loose and easy when they are chasing a golf ball or racing over tennis lawns. But why should this necessity be upon them? Why not w’ear enough cloth to move about easily or otherwise wear bloomers? When I saw the lay figures of women in New York’s fine stores with anklets of gold set with jewels or bril liants, I understood there was no intention of hiding the jewelry. The anklets were worn to be seen, or they would have been made into armlets, rather than to be worn on the lower limbs. c We may expect with the slit skirt to be favored with elaborate garter adornments, and then there will be only a short step to a danseuse costume in full. I never could see why it was considered stylish to take all coverings from a fashionable lauy’s shoulders and arms. The strap across the top of the arm is no sleeve, but an appendage to hold up the meager waist arrangements. I see these almost nude busts even at winter receptions, where the ultra-fashionable are to be seen. A man with his body uncoveVed would not be allowed in a ball room at all, and while he may wear knee pants »n royal assemblages tne chap who would bare his knees and uncover his shoulders and arms at an American dance party would have what might be grossly called “a — of a time” while wa? thus “displaying his charms.” Do you see the point? And we are informed that our gayest young wom en, when they uncover their shoulders and arms while exhibiting the contour of their thinly veiled legs are “displaying their charms.” Are we going away from or are we retrograding into bai baric habits and cus toms? * * • BLIND BEGGARS ON THE STREET. One of the hottest days of last week, as I crossed the Whitehall street viaduct, I found a blind elderly woman with a basket and a few pencils and shoe strings therein. The woman was squatted on the hard hot floor of the viaduct trying to keep in the narrow shadow cast by tad parapet. Just a little further I came upon an aged man with his little basket and some trifles. The woman was asleep apparently, but the man was awake and looking miserably in the tor rid heat that prevailed. ■When I reached home I found a circular letter that set me to thinking about what the state owes to its dependants, thos e who are afflicted with blindness and are unable to follow any sort of business to make a livelihood. The circular tells in plainer words than I am capable of writing the difficulties that pertain and the conditions that prevail. Macon Ga., July 4, 1913. That old blind man on the street corner begging— np asylum for him. He is no ward of the great state^ of Georgia. In the greatest government the ’world ever saw only four states provide for the old blind. English laws are based on the Bible. We read that only three classes were allowed to eat the shew bread, they were the priesthood and their families, the lame and the blind. The purpose of government should be to protect the weak. (2) Blind Bartemius called pleadingly unto the Master and was -ealed. Blind Homer wrote the Epic poems. Blind Milton dictated the writing of “Para dise Lost.” When shall we realize Paradise regained? The incumbent Oklahoma statesman is said to be the brainiest man, in congress, but God endows but few With capacities like these, else, we sighted, why don’t you be Jeffersons, Lincolns, or belong to the House of Fame? Who will let the people know? Who will be our champion? We must find them! Make it popular, then the politicians are ever ready to love the “dear people.” We don’t want to beg on te stretts, sell pen cils or discourse plaintive tunes. Sympathy becomes monotonous. Many blind will join our ranks—you may be one. • 9 HOME-MADE FEY FAFER—WHO KNOWS ABOUT IT? Dallas, Ga., July 10, 1913. Dpar Mrs. Felton; Having seen a recipe in The Journal for making home-made fly paper and having lost paper it was in I decided I would write you about It and get you to have it republished. I put up the paper, but can’t find it. Yours truly, MRS. J. A. BROWN. Route 7, Box 21. SINCERITY. Give me the everyday sort of a man— The feller who laughs when he’s glad. Give me the open-faced, big-hearted man— The feller who weeps when he’s sad. , Give me the man who says just what he thinks— The feller who’s word is pure gold, Give me the man who can always be found— The feller who’s not bought and sold. Innocent Moses Primrose who bartered away a good horse for a bushel of worthless green specta cles with tortoise shell rims was no more gullible than many honest folk of the present time who fall into the wiles of our “Quick-Rich Wallingfords.” In deed, it has been conservatively reckoned that the people of Georgia blandly surrender five million dol lars a year to the promoters of flimsy or fraudulent investment schemes. It is not to be inferred that the persons thus deceived are unusually simple or venturesome, for, in this as in other instances the Tempter often appears in a guise so angel-like as to dupe the very elect. The shrewdest business men are not infrequently the easiest prey to wild-cat de vices; even J. Pierpont Morgan, seasoned and mas terful financier though he was, is said to have pur chased stock in a number of visionary cohcerns. The public needs protection against such snares, especially in Georgia, which now has no law to this effect and which naturally, therefore, has become an inviting field for all manner of financial adventures. In justice to honest business interests, if not as a shield to the rank and file of the unwary, an ade quate law of this kind should be enacted. Georgia, like the South at large, is developing by leaps and bounds. Scores of thoroughly safe and legitimate enterprises call for promotion. But if irresponsible or merely bubblin,. affairs are permitted to continue unchecked, rightful and trustworthy undertakings will fall under the shadow of suspicion; and further more properly conducted interests will suffer at the hands of unscrupulous rivalry. A measure popularly known as “the Blue Sky bill” is now before the Legislature, having been fav orably reported by the House committee to which it was referred. Its purpose is to prevent such condi tions as those" we have described. Its enactment and enforcement will mean a saving of hundreds of thousands or, perhaps, millions of dollars annually to the people of this State and the protection of legitimate interests. This bill has the hearty in dorsement of business men and commercial bodies throughout the State. It is in line with the progres sive action of other Legislatures in various parts of the Union. Let it be made a law at the present ses sion of our General Assembly. \ Give me the man who stands up to the rack-— The feller whose spirit ne’er bends, Give me the man who is there with the goods— The feller who stands by his friends. He may not be cultured or dandy in dress, His learnin’ may be purty slim, But if he has got the red blood in his veins, You can bank your last dollar on him. Give me the man who has hit all the bumpn— The feller who’s traveled with truth; Who knows what true pain and true anguish <-an jyiean. And is not discouraged, forsooth. x He may be a rougnneck and cuss just a bit, And be some uncouth in his tone; But after the judgment, I’ve got an idea You’ll find him quite close to the throne. —Brooklyn Eagle. 7 he Sense in Cursing . Two men entered a train at a small station out west and took seats facing an elderly man. Thfey fell to telling hunting stories with great animation and many oaths. Noticing that the old man was an interested listen er, one of the men spoke to him and asked whether he, too, were not a hunter, with a story or two worth hearing. The old man thought he could tell one and this is what he said: “One day I thought I would go hunting; so I took my tin pan tinder oox gun and went up into a tin pan tinder box woods on the side of a tin pan tinder box mountain, and I waited a tin pan tinder box long time; and then I saw a tin pan tinder box fine buck coming toward me, so I put my old tin pan tinder box gun to my shoulder and fired. And that tin pan tinder box buck fell right in its tin pan tinder box tracks; and it was the finest tin pan tinder box buck I ever, killed.” After a pause he said, “How do you like my story?” “Oh, the story is, all right, but I don’t see what all that ‘tin pan tinder box’ has to do with it.” “Well,” replied the old man, “that is just my way of swearing.” “I don’t see much sense in swearing that way,” said the other, with manifest disgust. To which the old man responded-: “There Is as much sense in my way of swearing as there is in yours, young man.”—Youth’s Companion. Christian Endeavor Work By hrederic J Haskin Nearly 5,000,000 young people will be represented in the twenty-sixth annnual international convention which will meet in Los Angeles beginning July 9. England and all her colonial possessions, as well as each of the large countries in which English speaking missionaries are engaged, will be in some way repre sented at tnis mammoth convention wh ch will demon strate an unparalleled growth in Christian developmnt among the young people of/the English speaking world. * * * The first Christian Endeavor society was organized in the Congregational church of Portland, Me., in 1881, by Rev. F. E. Clark, D. D., who had the honor of being elected the president of the World’s Union of Christian Endeavor at the triennial conference h Ad in Washing ton in 1S96. Twenty-five years ago, in April, 1888, Dr. .Clark, spurred by the wonderful enthusiasm with which the Christian Endeavor movement had spread over his own country, set forth to England in “‘the first serious effort to plant Christian Endeavor in a foreign land.” His reception there and tne tnousands of Christian Endeavor societies which sprang up in England as the result of his visit were beyond his highest expectations. Despite the fact that the Christian Endeavor organizations are supposedly confined to evangelical churches and that the English government in the British empire has been second only in growth to that .of the United States. . t has been cariied to South Africa, to India and to Australia, as well as to Canada, where its growth came naturally from proximity to Maine where the first society was qrganized. • • • The Christian Endeavor movement seems almost limitless in scope. The distinctive feature is its work among the young people, leading them to consecrate their -lives to active work for God. A weekly prayer meeting whi !h each one pledges him or herself to at tend unless unavoidably detained, and the consecration meetings at which special efforts have been made to ascertain if the members have been faithful to their pledge, tend to keep up a live interest in the spiritual work of the organization. ... There is m lack of practical work also. The Chris tian Endeavor society usually is responsible for the social life of the church. It has committees to look after the interests of strangers, not only those com ing to the church but also those who come to the community and are not in attendance upon any church. In many ton ns its strongest influence has grow out of its efforts to aid strangers. The aid may take any practical fo:m Sometimes a committee will procure employment for any one in need. A practical aid committee of Christian Endeavor society in a town where a grtat industrial strike was in progress was able to do much to alleviate the suffering of th® strikers’ families by securing temporary work of many kinds that did not interfere with any of the pro visions made by the union which had ordered th® strike. ... In large cities much social settlement work is done under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor socie ties. In many instances the entire relief work of the church is dispensed through a committee of the Chris tian Endeavor society, the young people in this way being given practical experience in aiding those in need. In many towns a civic committee of an Endeav or society has grown into a village improvement club which has taken up clean streets, public library, pure water, a curfew law and numberless other civic move ments which have tended toward the practical better ment of i he community. All of these activities If properly conducted are simply demonstrations of the applied Christianity which is the basis of the Chris tian Endeavor movement. ... The growtli of the Christian Endeavor work has been largely aided by the amount of literature which was issued even in the early days of the movement. Live periodicals devoted to the extension of Christian Endeavor activities supplied also with interesting arti cles upon v&rous subjects apt to interest young peo ple, together with many well written books on many subjects, are being constantly issued for the benefit of workers in Christian societies. No other religious or humanitarian movement ever has been aided from its earliest beginning by so large and varied a supply of literature often supplied directly for the movement from the pens of the ablest writers. ... Music always has been a strong feature in ‘ Chris tian Endeavor work. In most societies a song serv ice precedes each Sunday evening meeting. The pub lication of the first Christian Endeavor hymn book nearly twenty-five years ago mide special provision for Christian Endeavor music which must have spirit, rhythm and melody to be really attractive to young people. Many of the songs and tunes written for that first hymn book were contributed gratis. It was felt that the selec tion of the music had much to do with the attractiveness of the Christian Endeavor meet ings, as ,t introduced a livelier spirit than was to be found in most of the regular hymns of the church to which the society belonged. The selection of music pleasing to young people, at the same time dignified and in keeping with the highest religious feeling has not been ar. easy task. The degree of excellence which has been attained by Christian Endeavor music will be demonstrated throughout the great convention by the choruses, anthems, and other special selections, in addition to the splendid congregational singing which will be heard at each session. This music has been supplied not only through American societies but throughout the world. At one of the meetings of the Los Angeles convention a song service will be given by the Chinese, the Japanese and the Hawaiian dele gations. Social purity work will rceive a strong forward im petus from the convention as in most of the societies special committees for this work lately have sprung into active service. There will be separate confer ences upon this subject for women and girls and for men and boys In which specialists will give advice as to the best methods of increasing interest in the pre vention of the social evil. The consideration of what the Christian Endeavor movement has done and can do for the spread of the peace propaganda will occupy one meeting and there will be a strong Influence to ward the lessening of race prejudice evidenced throughout the convention. Several prominent colored bishops and clergymen are included in the list 02 speakers. • • • One reason for the success of the Christian En deavor movement from Its beginning was the organ ized efforts to make'the weekly meetings of interest to the members. With this in v 4 ew a systematic pro gram has b«-en arranged by means of which even the inexperienced leader could not fail to secure th co-op eration of the attendants. A topic or subject is pre pared for each meeting and suggestive outlines of the leader’s talks are provided. Recitations are some times given to lend variety. Each meeting has some distinctive ftature carefully prepared and its details worked out by a committee of the United society which publishes it each week in order that all of the societies may have the same subject each week. Usually a monthly or quarterly topic card is provided by each society. Quips and Quiddi ies _j v One of the us»iers approached a man who appeared to be annoying those about him. “Don’c you like the show?” “Yes, Indeed!’* “Then, why do you persist In hissing the perform ers?” “Why, m-man alive, I w-wasn’t h-hissing! I w-was s-s-simply s-s-s-saying to S-s-s-sammie that the s-s-s-singing is s-s-s-superb.”—Magazine of Fun,