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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NOKTK FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Poatofflce as Mail Matter ol the Seeond Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE cerned. A recognition of the Huerta regime would have been as ill-advised as unjust. The provisional government that was set up through the betrayal and murder of a President who had been constitu tionally elected, lacked physical as well as moral support. Huerta is despised by his own countrymen, at least by the great majority of them. He has lost I his grip upon the army, to such an extent that troops sent out to quell an uprising not infrequently go over in a body to the rebels. His sphere of influence Twelve months 76# Six months . 10c Three months ' 20° 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 stafi of dlstinguls led contributors, with strong department* of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD-- LEY, Circulation Manager. has rapidly narrowed until now according to mos accounts, it is limited to the territory immediately about the capital. The United States could as con sistently have recognized the revolutionary camps as it could have recognized the impotent Huerta regime. Forcible intervention in Mexico has been urged only by habitual jingoes or by those who have some selfish interest at stake. There are thoughtful Americans, to be sure, who feel that conditions across the Rio Grande cannot continue indefinitely as they are and that unless the Mexican people free them- The only traveling representatives we have ara 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. selves of anarchy and establish a responsible govern ment, the United States will be compelled, in behalf of civilization itself, to take a firm hand in the emergency. But those who think thus realize that NOTICE 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 please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should ba sent by postal order or registered mall. Address all orders and notloes for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga. Fifty Millions to Move the Crops. The business virtues of the Wilson administra tion are strikingly witnessed in Secretary McAdoo’s plan to transfer from the treasury to the national banks of the South and the West between twenty- five and fifty million dollars to facilitate the move ment of crops and to forestall any serious financial stringency. The Government thus comes oppor tunely to the aid of the farmers and hankers in the great agricultural sections and renders a service of which the practical value to commerce and industry at large is almost beyond reckoning. Harvests of all kinds this year will he unsually large. The monetary means for handling them must be proportionately increased. Any attempt on the part of special interests to contract the money mar- intervention would be unwise except as a last resort. If a United States army ever crosses the Southern border, it will not return for years or decades. Its presence would be a signal for a united Mexican uprising and the beginning of campaigns far more difficult and costly than those which the Philippines required. The cost would be paid not only In money and lives, but also in the interruption, if not the fail ure, of those important economic and political re forms in which this nation is now engaged. Only under the highest stress of moral responsibility could the United States afford to assume such a burden as intervention in Mexico would impose. There are hopeful omens that the flimsy Huerta rule will soon be peacefully supplanted by a new ad ministration which will be acceptable to all factions and which can hole -things together at least until the forthcoming election this autumn. A reform element in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies plans to submit to Huerta and to the revolutionists a plan whereby the former will retire and be succeeded by some non partisan provisional president. It was thus that the revolution against the elder Diaz was finlly settled; and, if an acceptable man can be found, this plan will doubtless be the simplest and salest way out of the present difficulties. Our government is evidently awaiting developments in that direction. In the meantime, President Wil son and the State department refuse to be rushed into any hasty or ill-considered action. They know more of the Mexican situation than anyone else; they are handling it to the country’s best interests; they should be unreservedly trusted by Congress and the people to work out this delicate problem. ket when money Is so urgently needed must be checkmated. Thus alone can business move prosper- The Medical Practice Bill. ously forward add the welfare of the country as a whole be conserved. This vital need the treasury department will meet by depositing additional funds djrectly with the banks in those sections where the demand for money is greatest. The Wilson-McAdoo policy is in this respect dis tinctly different from that which has heretofore pre vailed. In former years, when financial conditions began to show signs of stringency, the Government has placed its money mainly in New York banks, with the result that whatever part of such funds the South or the West received was secured only on terms made by those at the tight centers of financial control. Under this new plan, at once more practical and morq generous, Government money will be direct ly available in the crop-producing quarters where it is primarily needed. It is recalled in this connection that a year ago Mr. MacVeagh, then secretary of the treasury, declined to make additional Government de posits “on the ground that the moderate federal sur plus funds at that time should be held as a reserve to be utilized at some possible critical stage.” The Wilson administration takes the wiser view that the Government should use every influence at its com mand to prevent even an incipient stringency; that a stitch in time will be worth nine when trouble is actually developing. The treasury department’s offer is particularly noteworthy for its liberal terms. "In order to make these special deposits ‘available to the banks on se curities readily within their reach,” says the official announcement, "the Secretary will accept as security prime commercial paper, in addition to Government and high class State, municipal and other bonds.” Government bonds will be accepted as security at par; other bonds at seventy-five per cent of their market value and approved commercial paper at sixty-five per cent of its face value. The deposits will be returnable in easy installments and will bear interest at the rate of two per cent per annum. This The Medical Practice bill, which has passed the State Senate by the significant vote of thirty-six to four and which is expected to come before the House for final action this week, is a measure of partic ularly vital importance to every citizen and every home in Georgia. There is, perhaps, no graver menace to a people’s welfare than an ignorant or un principled man in the role of a physician. His ca pacity for harm is almost unlimited. If he be ig norant, human life and untold suffering are his sac rifice. If he be u-pricipled, his opportunities to swindle the public are greater than those of all other fakers combined. If he be both ignorant and unprin cipled, as is sometimes the case, he . is a peril more deadly than any disease which ever scourged mankind. Georgia is today in the tragically unfortunate position of being virtually without legal protection against ignorant and unprincipled practitioners. So antiquated, Indeed, is our iaw in this regard that eighteen of the thirty-e'ght States which formerly recognized Georgia medical licenses now refuse to do so, and among these are our neighboring com monwealths Alabama and North and South Carolina. Nor is their ostracism at all surprising when we reflect that under the Georgia law there is no means of revoking a physician’s license, however unqual ified or untrustworthy he may be, and when we re flect further that our legal requirements of medical education are so lax and low as to be well-nigh ft farce. This is not to imply that the representative medical colleges i Georgia are not conducted on high standards but the ominous fact remains that unless a medical college in this State voluntarily measures up to reputable requirement^ there is no means of compelling it to Jo so. Thesp conditions are manifectly unjust and dan gerous to the public as well as a blot upon the State’s good name. The> should not be suffered to con tinue. The purpose of the pending hill is to raise the educational standard and safeguard the integrity of the medical profession. It is a bill in the in terest of human v. elf are and as such it should re ceive the vote of every member of the House who values the life and happiness of the people he represents. is said to be the first time the Government has ac cepted commercial paper as security for its deposits. Certainly, no national administration has ever be fore come so directly and so liberally to the aid of agricultural and business needs. By this seasonable plan every section of the country will profit out the South will be especially benefited. The cotton crop will be moved with expe dition so that the fresh stream- of wealth which it represents will find their way promptly into all channels of business, quickening and enriching every tide of trade. The farmer, the banker, the merchant will all be helped; and not' only these but the hun dreds of thousands 01 other men working in divers fields will be protected. Surely, the present adminis tration stands for progress; for freedom and for prac tical service. A Sane Mexican Policy. Secretary Bryan’s reassuring statement that the United States is in no way being pressed by Euro pean governments to take aggressive action in Mexico simply confirms the opinion which all sober-minded people have held. Reports that Germany, England and other foreign Pcwers had insisted upon a forth with, decisive policy at Washington and that they themselves would intervene in the affairs of the stormy republic, unless this nation did so, were dis counted from the outset as wild rumors. It is possi ble, indeed probable, that European interests have made friendly inquiry as to our attitude toward the Mexican situation but that they done more is irn credible. Carrying Education to the People There could be no surer evidence of the substan tial and far-reaching service of the Georgia College of Agriculture than the large attendance at the farmers' institutes which the College is conducting throughout the State. Up to the present time more than thirty-six thousand farmers have jeen present at these lectures and demonstrations, about twice the number recorded during the same period last year. The audiences have ranged in size from a hundred and fifty to two thousand people, according to the population of the district. At Talbotton, twelve hundred were present anc. at Duluth, in an entirely different part of the State, the same number. The State College of Agriculture is thus reaching the people. It is not merely an institution; it id a vital, constructive force. It is stimulating and train- i ing not only the hundreds of young men enrolled in its immediate student body but also the thousands of mature farmers who are at work in the fields. Not only does it offer the opportunities of education but it also carries those opportunities directly to the rank and file. This is true service, the sqrt of service that pro duces results for the individual and the common wealth as a whole. Surely, an institution that reaches thirty-six thousand men within a few sum mer weeks, helping them to solve their problems, en couraging them in scientific and progressive methods, organizing them in a great movement that will bless the State with more varied and abundant harvests— surely, such an institution merits the public’s heart iest approval and the Legislature’s generous support. The course thus far pursued by the administra tion has been the best possible for everyone con- Many a man’s cordial handshake is due to the fact that he needs that dollar in your pocket. Conserving the Interests Of the W. & A. Railroad. If the Legislature is to deal competently with the future interests of the Western and Atlantic rail road, it must lose no time in providing for a careful inquiry into the many far-reaching questions which this matter involves. To that end there should be created at the present session of the General Assem bly a trustworthy commission, empowered to inves tigate this vital issue in all its bearings, to work out in detail practical plans and methods and to submit as promptly as possible a report toat will af ford a basis for businesslike action. Thus only can the State be prepared for the numerous and weighty problems that must be met when the present lease of the Western and Atlantic expires a little more than six years Lence. It need scarcely be said that the duties and pow ers of such a commission should be delegated only to men who are unquestionably capable and who are also unquestionably free from the influence of any special interest. They should be men seasoned in experience and judgment and at the same time un biased by any alliance either actual or sympathetic with private railroad concerns. Otherwise, the con- mission would forfeit public confidence and in u.e very outset its usefulness would be destroyed. There should be no difficulty, however, in the Legislature safeguarding this point and in securing the appoint ment of commissioners who will be at once compe tent, open-minded and truly representative of the people’s welfare. There are three especially important questions to be determined in, dealing with the future of the Western and Atlantic. In the first place, whether the road should again be leased or should be opera ted by the State, provision must he made for its improvement and development, in order that its value to the State may continually increase. Fur thermore, the terminal areas at Atlanta and Chat tanooga should be considered with a niew to utiliz ing, more profitably than now, such land as is not es sential to railroad purposes. And perhaps most im portant of all is the question of extending the West ern and Atlantic to the sea. Each of these matters demands the painstaking consideration which only aL able commission, working along definite iines, can give. The State’s road should be worth vastly more fifty years or even ten years hence than it is today. But if that is to be assured, the road must be stead ily improved in equipment and in facilities for hand ling business. The line between Chattanooga and Atlanta should be double tracked and In every other respect the property should be kept up to the high est standard of efficiency so that its earning pow.r will constantly grot,. Any plan for the re-leasing of the road should contemplate such improvements, fo • they are no less important than the question of the rental price. Everyone who has given intelligent and disinter ested study to the Western and Atlantic terminals at Atlanta and Chattanooga seems agreed that a part of these lands could be devoted to business purposes without in any way imparing the value or the rental of the railroad itself. In Atlanta, for Instance, the State owns a large tract of central real estate now used as a switching yard. This land is far too val uable to be sacrificed to such ends when the State owns adjacent land that would serve terminal needs equally as well. It seems clear, therefore, that in re newing the Western and Atlantic lease the State should exclude from railway uses .that portion of its property which extends from the Forsyth street via duct to Central avenue. This land can be leased for business development on terms that would be highly profitable to the State; and, if similar plans are worked out for the Chattanooga terminals, the State will thus derive a revenue larger perhaps than that It now receives from the entire Western and At lantic lease. It woula have two sources of income— that from the lease of the railroad proper and that from the lease of these appurtenant lands—where It now has hut one; and this could be accomplished, as we have said, without impairing the service or reduc ing the rental of the railroad a dollar. If the Western and Atlantic railroad is to grow in influence and value it must undoubtedly he extended to the sea. Otherwise, it will remain merely a local line, limited in power and earning capacity and largely at the mercy of competing systems. If extended to the coast, thereby establishing inde pendent traffic connections between interior towns and the advantageous ocean routes to and from the east, it will be proof against combination to lessen its value and will become the permanent and natural arbiter of freight rates in Georgia. Several plans for such an extension have recently been suggested. The Atlanta, Birmingham and At lanta railroad is soon to be sold under foreclosure proceedings. If the State could acquire that line on advantageous teims, it would have ready at hand the means of linking its own road to a port. It has also been proposed that partly through the purchase of short intervening roads and partly by construct ing new lines, the State could secure an ocean out let at St. Marys. These > propositions call for thor ough inquiry. Like the question of the new lease that must soon he made and the question of the ter minal areas at Atlanta and Chattanooga, they should be submitted to the investigation of a commission especially detailed to consider this subject in all its phases. / The future of the Western and Atlantic road is the weightiest business problem Georgia has ever raced. It involves millions of dollars and the vital interests of the people. It can be solved only through careful consideration; and solved it must be in the near future. Let the Legislature look to this great task without further delay. Reviving the Dictatorship. The old Roman practice of naming a dictator in times of crucial public danger has been revived in the little republic of Venezuela. Threatened with a revolution led by the banished tyrant Castro, wh in defiance of an international mandate has secretly returned to vex his country, the Federal Council of Venezuela has authorized President Gomez to assume dictatorial powers until the brewing rebellion is crushed. The U jmez govern ment was constitutionally formed and will doubtless have the recognition and support of foreign Powers in general and of the United States in particular. Indications are that the governors of the several Venezuelan States will also stand squarely behind the government. In these circumstances, it would seem, the Castro uprising will soon be quelled. Cer tainly, that is the outcome to be hoped for. Castro is a menace to the welfare of his own country and to the peace of all Central America. The Life-Efficiency Expert BY 3JR. TRANK CRAKE. (Copyright, 1913. by Frank Crane.) I It is the day of efficiency experts. There ar® skilled men who go to the manufacturing plant or any other kind of business organization and find out vhat is the matter why the con cern is losing money, where the | waste is, what is the point of \ weakness. The trouble may lie with „the j foreman of Department B, or with the workmen in the yards, . with neglect* here or careless- j ness there. The eagle eye of i the expert sees the flaw, the boss remedies the evil, and the factory takes a sudden leap to ward 16 per cent dividends. It is a great idea. It would be a greater idea if j one knew where we could find ; an efficiency expert in living, one who could examine our bodies habits and the in sides of our minds and souls see where a screw is loose or where oil is needed, and so advise us how to readjust our lives and make living to be efficient and worth while. For the difficulty with most of us is not poor health, lack of book-learning, unprofitable business or harrassing surroundings; it is that we do not under stand the art of living. The life-efficiency expert, if there were such ex isting, might go to the foolish wife and mother who is worrying herself into her grave and give her a few hints on values, upon sacrificing the big for the small things of life, and show her how devoting some time to her health personal appearance, and the cultivation of her mind would do more good than to fritter her whole life-capital away on housecleaning and stocking darning. He might go to the commercial traveler and demon strate to him how high-balls and poker by and by always get around and clog promotion. He might go to the successful banker and make plain to him how a man may be a business success a^id yet a miserable failure as far as his own life is concerned. He might go to the lady who Is a society lady and point out why, although she reigns in the social world, she makes wreck and ruin of her domestic affairs. He might go to the embittered, to those souls who, separation and make them to see the obstacle that threatens disaster to their love, and how to remove that obstacle. He might go to the man who is a failure and direct him how to adjust himself to non-success so as to make his life even richer than success could make it. He might go to the embittered, to those souls who, scorpion-like, sting themselves with their own scorn, and give them some antidote of common sense that would bring peace between them and themselves. He might go to the headstrong, fatuous, egotistic, and unreasonable and fix the deranged machinery of their souls. He might go to the superstitious, the half-insane faddists, the prejudiced and all who have given them selves over to some hypnotic nonsense and bring them back to sanity. -iut, alas! I fear the life-efficiency expert would starve. For the last place we look for the thing that is the matter with us is within ourselves. The uni versal infatuation of the human iace is that it is outer things and other folks that always are to blame. What the fool human being wants is for some body to change circumstances, not himself. "The Peace of the Sussex Man" Much interest has recently been manifested in the discovery, by Mr. Charles Dawson, of part of the skull and mandible of an ancient man, near Pilt Down com mon, Sussex, England. Workmen first found an ob- ject resembling a coeoanut, which curiosity led them to break in pieces, and, being unable to aolve the mys tery, they cast the pieces aside. Later a number of worked flints were found and laid out by the roadside. Mr. Dawson happening along saw these and was told of the coeoanut. He recovered the fragments and pieced them together to find that they formed the left half of a human skull. Subsequent search suc ceeded in bringing to light a fragment of the tooth of a mastodon; various fragments of the teeth of a pre historic elephant, together with those of a hippopota mus, a heaver, and an extinct horse; a bit of a large deer’s antler; and, finally, a fossilized jawbone which is presumed to belong to the small skull. . . . The place of this ancient ancestor In the roots of our family tree may be determined by a study of certain geological and anthropological factors. . . . The incompleteness of the Sussex skull renders estimates of the cranial capacity difficult, but it undoubtedly falls between slxty-two and sixty-seven cubic inches. Prof. Keith attempts to reconstruct the whole head of the Heidelberg man on the basis of facts revealed by the mandible, and concludes that the cranial ca pacity was not less than one thousand three hundred cubic centimeters, or about seventy-eight cubic Inches. Allowing fer all possible Inaccuracies in these figures, the man of Sussex shows smaller cranial capacity than that of any other European remains thus far discov ered. In this respect he also represents a more prim itive type of man than any existing race.—Frederick A. Hodge, in the August number of the North Ameri can Review. Quips and Quiddities “I say, mamma,’ said little Tommy, “is it true that when you first met papa you had fallen into the water and he jumped in and saved you?” “Quite true, my dear,” replied mamma, with a smile. “Then I wonder if that's why papa won’t allow me to learn how to swim.’’ • • • A young woman from the east was conversing with a Kentuckian about tobacco and tobacco raising. She was very pretty and a good conversationalist and the young man from Kentucky was vastly inter ested in her until she gave him a su.dden shock by an nouncing: “I should love to see a tobacco field, especially when it is just plugging out.’’—Rational Food Maga-’ zine. | Pointed Paragraphs Even an empty nead may contain a lot of useless information. * * * It is easier to make friends than it is to hold them. • • • Even the silent man is unable to keep his ignor ance under cover. * • • Anyway, no man ever has occasion to apologize for doing his duty. • e • Ordinarily a woman manages to hold her own— with the exception of her tongue THE NEW RURAL SCHOOL IV.—A STUDY OF CORN. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Conservative, full-grown farmers who have sneered' at book farmers have been taught by the Boys’ Corn| clubs that it pays to mix a little knowledge in with . the dirt when growing corn—that' it increases the yield for one acre from, say, twenty bushels' to two hundred and twenty. N T ow, even the most conservative farm er, even one whose conservatism is so grounded in kindred ignor ance that he is unable to readj and write,^does know how to add and subtract. He does know the difference between twenty bush els and forty bushels and eiahiy bushels of corn to the acre. It has long been held to be desira ble to teach farmers’ children how to “read and write and cipher,” why not also teach them how to grow corn? And why not do it at the same time they are learning these other things? • o • In the three preceding articles on the experimental rural school at Rock Hill, S. C., it has been shown how reading and writing and numbers are taught as an incident to practical everyday affairs, playing and gardening and cooking. To show how well done is the main work, the gardening, the teaching of the science of agriculture, it is better to take a single plant—corn—and see what the new rural school did with it. For this study of corn we will take the school in its second year, when its pupils were more in num ber. when they were actually farm children, brought in every day by a wagon from their homos, and taken back in the same way at night. There will be more of this second year’s work in later articles. For the 1 present, to the study of corn: « • • It began in the winter, began with a study of the' birthplace and the home of the corn—the soil. We children felt the soil and when the teacher asked us about it, we said It was moist. Then she asked us how much water there was in it. That was a puzzler for a moment, but one of us had the wit to suggest weighing it wet and then drying it out and weighing it again. We took three pounds, and when we had thoroughly dried it, it weighed but two and three- fourths of a pound. And the very smallest and young est of us knew that a quarter of a pound of water had been driven out. The teacher told us it had evap orated, and that was a good, new word. • • • Then she showed us something else. She put the same dried dirt in an iron vessel and set it on the stove and let it get red-hot. When it was cold again we weighed it, and we saw it. had lost some more weight. Was that water, too? No, the water had all gone* before. So the teacher told us about humus, that it was “organic matter” in the soil, tiny tyits of leaves and sticks, and so on. We guessed that it was the humus that had been burned out of the soil, and wo now knew that the soil in our garden had water in it and organic matter in it. But there was more. • • * The teacher asked us to look closely and we saw sand. How like little rooks the grains of sand are! How were the little rocks made? We rub two rocks together over a piece of white paper and we see—sand is made by rubbing rocks. Do we think this could happen naturally? Rocks rolling down hill, rocks roll ing on the bottom of a stream, would be rubbed. We put some stones into a pickle Jar, and pour in water. It was almost cl e ar in the jar. And then we shook the bottle hard, and let it settle. Which falls first? Silt, sand or gravel? Then we went to the mouth of a little steam just after a rain and there we found silt, then sand, then gravel, then the stones, Just as in the^ bottle. It was lots of fun, and we learned a great deaL • • • Then we took four lamp chimneys and fastened them in a frame, and tied netting under the bottom of each. Into one we put garden soil, into another aand, another clay and into the last one gravel. We poured •in water and watched which on© held it longest. And then we did the same thing with new soils, and put the ends in water to see which would soak it up the quickest. Now, we already knew that corn must hav© water, and must have it all the time in the soil, and in this way we le&rnod all about what too much sand or too much clay would do for our garden. • • • We put grains of corn between damp sheets of blot ting paper, and put some in a warm and some \rt a cold place. We knew it was a joke when the teacher told us to put some grains in damp sawdust and some in dry sawdust to see which would come up first, for we knew that in the dry it never would. We*put some grains in & tin can filled with soil that had holes punched in the bottom, and some in a can of soil with out any holes. We put some grains in damp paper in the air and some in a tight box. • • • The grains of corn that were cold, that were dry, that were too much soaked in the can without holes, that had no air, all did not sprout—“germinate” the teacher taught us to say. But those that had mois ture, and heat, and air, and not too much moisture, all began to grow. We took some ears of corn and tested them for seed—planting five grains from each ear and numbering the ear so that we could see what ears would give the best seed. We will remember that we must do this wnenever w© plant corn, so as to get the best seed. • • • And when the little grains we are watching begin to grow! What fun it is to mark the tip of the root and the tip of jthe stalk with a tiny pen-and-ink mark and then to see next morning how both have glown. As the grains that were in the blotting paper grew we drew pictures each day, showing the .bursting grain, the tiny root and stalk, the radicle and plumule. • • » Spring came and we began to think of our corn in the garden. We must plant far enough apart so as to give our corn air and sun, but we don’t have to plant as far apart a» on the farm because we will cultivate our corn by hand and not with mules. We mark off the hills one and a half x«-et apart and make them in rows two feet apart. We are going to put five grains in each hill, for it is easier to pull up a stalk than to replant. And then, how many hills in your row? And how many grains will it take? • • • When *our corn is about six inches high we give it some nitrate of soda fertilizer, for corn must have food and this kind of food is not in our soil. We find cut all about when to cultivate the corn, and how to k *,ep a dust mulch on top of the ground to keep the uv,der part of the soil from drying out too quickly, and many, many tilings. / » m • • We have enemies. Smut appears. We burn the in fected stalk to keep It from sheading. Weeds and grass come up. We study all the different kinds of weeds and find out how many, many seed they have and how necessary it is to dig them up by the roots and get rid of them altogether. We know now that We must cultivate our corn for three reasons—to loosen the soil so that the corn can get its food and drink, to keep a dust mulch so that the water will not all evaporate, and to kill the weeds and grass that other wise would steal the food and water from our corn. * • V Then we find that weeds are of some good after all. They make a lazy farmer cultivate his corn when if there were no weeds he might not take the trouble to do it just for the sake of making a dust mulch. The easiest way to manage a husband is to select one that doesn’t need much managing. • * * In case you fail to put your best foot forward when you have a chance, you may feel like using it to kick yourself later. Our corn is in bloom. It has flowers. 4 We find out that the tassel is one part of the flower and that the silk is another part, and that without both parts there will be no corn. There is yellow dust on the tassel pollen, the teachers tells us. And a grain of that must fall on every single tiny silk to make a sin gle grain of corn.