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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ’ ATLAKTA, GA.. 5 NORTH FOMTTH ST. > Entered at the Atlanta Postorfice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAKES B. GBAX. President and Editor- sußSCßipnoir pbxcb. Twelve months 75c Six months 40c Three months The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tues day 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 distinguished contributors, with strong depart ments 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 B. F. Bolton. C. C- Coyle, L. H. Kimbrough. Chas. H. Woodliff and L. J. Farris. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above-named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO aVwSCBXBEBS. The label need for eddreraing your paper (bows the time your subscription expiree. By renewing at least two weeks be fore tbe date on this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be rare to mention your old. as well as yoor naw address. If on a route, please give the route uumber. , We*cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittance should be sent by p oatal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notlc es for this Department to THE SSMI-VEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. Mr. Hughes' Harangue. Mr. Hughes' speech of acceptance Is remarkable in one respect: it has delighted the Democrats and disappointed the Republicans. As a keynote, it fell like the twang of a jewsharp where a trumpet blast was expected. They say that Roosevelt, listen ing from a box, grinned and applauded, but we'll wager he swore under his breath. The Old Guard clans had foregathered for an evening of inspiration. At a loss themselves for a campaign issue, they were hopeful and confident that their candidate would find one and state it stirringly. But as his speech wore on, their optimism waned and finally flickered out. If Mr. Hughes, who wants to be President, cannot find the Republicans an issue, their plight is woeful indeed. He floundered from Mexico to Europe, from Hyphenism to woman suffrage, from preparedness to what he termed “unstable” prosperity; yet, through all his thousands of words, not once did he touch bottom or present event a passable excuse for his candidacy. He prodded and criticised and complained, but his lengthy oration is void of a single constructive stroke. He wordily berated the President, but was notably silent on what he him self would have done had he been facing the dan gerous problems of the past two years instead of sitting smugly aloof. He proceeded upon tbe theory that whatever is, is wrong; but interestingly enough, be offered no plan for setting it aright. That was his attitude toward the Mexican prob lem, which the Wilson administration inherited from a Republican predecessor. It was his attitude toward the submarine issue, which the Wilson administration has settled to the credit of America and, if we are to believe dis patches from Berlin, to the discomfiture of Prus sian militarists. It was his attitude on the preparedness ques tion, which the Wilson administration has answer ed by the most far-reaching and thoroughgoing leg islation for national defense ever known or ever proposed in the history of the United States. It was his attitude on Hyphenism. which the Wilson administration has rebuked and defied but which now is openly enlisted for Mr. Hughes' sup port. On all questions of national concern, whether of foreign or domestic moment, Mr. Hughes merely echoed the principles which President Wilson long ago proclaimed and which a Democratic'Congress already has put into effect or is now bringing to pass. What Mr. Hughes says, in vague general ities. ought to be done, the Wilson administration has actually performed or is carrying forward. The fact is Mr. Hughes is a candidate without a cause. Even so, however, the Republican bosses who put him in the race were entitled to a better speech thair his vapid harangue of acceptance. The truth dawns upon them, as upon the country, that after all Mr. Hughes is far short of his reputation. Certainly, his New York speech was not that of a great Judge and statesman, but rather the drawn out plea of a pettifogging lawyer, the essay of an «>isy-chalr critic who is strong in picking flaws but impotent in creative ideas and constructive action. In Wisdom and Mercy. In commuting the sentence of Thomas Edgar Stripling, Governor Harris has exemplified the principles of wisdom and justice and moderation on which this Commonwealth is founded. If ever there was reason for executive clemency and for the employment of that mercy which is “an at tribute to God himself,” it was in the case of this broken man whose one great wrongdoing in the distant past was followed by fourteen years of a blameless and penitent life, and by other years, whose length cannot be reckoned, in prison suffer ing and despair. . Stripling's pathetic experience has been likened aptly to that of Hugo's Jean Vai Jean. Having escaped the convict's lot to which he was doomed for a homicide, committed, according tp his plea, in defense of his family's honor, he fled to another State and began life anew. His wife and children joined him. He worked soberly, faithfully, honX estly, living the part of a good neighbor and a good citizen in the town of Danville, Virginia, where he settled. He earned the respect and con fidence of the community, so much so that he was made its chief of police. Then, like a lightning stab from a cloudless sky, his past fell tragically upon him. - There is no thin or mawkish sentimentality in the public conscience which has appealed for Strip ling's freedom-since he was reimprisoned. Rather, it has been the appeal of thoughtful human-heart edness. convinced that the man’s life of upright ness had atoned for his moment of impulse and that his bitter suffering had paid full expiation. Governor Harris acted not only upon his own scrutiny of the case, in which new circumstances were brought to light, but also upon the recom mendation of all the surviving members of the trial jury, ten in number, the recommendation of a great majority of the present General Assembly, a great majority of the people of Harris county and of tens of thousands of people throughout the State. And he acted with wisdom and justice no less than with mercy. A Plea Prom the Plowshares For a Highway Commission Loganville. Ga., R. F. D. No. 5. Editor The Journal: I write to indorse your stand for a State highway commission equal to our needs. We people in the coun try who are in favor of good roads are get ting tired of the way our road business is be ing run. In many counties our money is be 'ing wasted, and we are getting little or noth ing that we ought to be getting. This county, Gwinnett, has changed its commission on an average of every three years for the last ten,« and new plans are put in each time. One commission will buy mules and engines; the next will change to some other way. We are . in great need of advice and guidance from experts in road building. Too much of our money is being spent without results. We don’t mind the tax, but we want it spent judi ciously. It seems to me that this could be done by having a State commission with ex pert assistance. We are not going to let this condition of affairs continue indefinitely. I think the people are getting awfully tired of waiting for relief. Yours truly. W. A. BENNETT. This letter is particularly significant in that it reflects thoughtful opinion in the State’s rural dis tricts. The larger towns and the richer counties could get along without a State highway commis sion, because they can employ competent road en gineers and raise the funds needed for the most efficient methods and machinery. But in the aver age country district the need of State assistance and supervision is imperative. It was primarily for the benefit of those districts that the federal good roads fund, of which Georgia's share is more than two million dollars, was created; and it is pri marily for the needs of those districts that the Legislature should pass an adequate highway com mission bill. It is conservatively reckoned that eight thou sand dollars a day is spent in Georgia for road im provements; and if the State, by complying with the terms of the new- federal law, gets its patT of the national fund, the amount will be greatly in creased. How much of this outlay yields due re turns? How much is wasted through lack of skil ful service and competent administration? If there are available means whereby the money spent, and •to be spent in the future, can be made to produce' more roads and better roads, ought not the Legis lature, as a matter of common justice and common sense, to adopt such means? The answer is so obvious that rhe question seems almost idle. Yet, year after year has gone without any serviceable legislation of the kind be ing enacted; and now the State is in imminent danger of losing its two million dollar part of the federal appropriation simply for lack of a high way commission that will meet the requirements of the federa’ act. If this money, to which the people of Georgia are entitled, is lost, the rural districts will be the heaviest sufferers and the Leg islators who obstruct the passage of an adequate highway bill will be responsible. z Our Loganville correspondent states the case of the rural interests completely when he says; “We are in need of advice and guidance from experts tn road building. Too much of our money is being spent without results. We don’t mind the tax but we want it spent judi« ciously.” How can the rank and file of our counties get expert advice and guidance in these matters with out a State highway commission composed of men who have expert knowledge on road problems? How can road funds be spent judiciously without the counsel of competent engineers? A highway commission lacking these elements could not serve the needs of the counties, partic ularly the rural counties, and would not entitle the State to its share of the federal appropriation. If anyone fancies that the national Government is going to give Georgia two million dollars without ample assurance tKat it will be spent efficiently, he is much deceived. Congress has safeguarded this fund with divers requirements, the most im portant of which is that a State, in order to be eli gible to federal aid for road improvement, shall es tablish a highway department which shall be a highway department in fact and deed as well as *in name. This department, the law stipulates, must make all surveys, plans and specifications which may be required. It must be able to give the federal authorities, notably the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury, a satisfactory account of all road work that is pro jected or accomplished. A commission incapable of these duties would not be acceptable under the terms of the national law. There has been much needless debate on the personnel of the State highway commission. If the purpose for which such a commission is needed and the duties it will be called upon to discharge are understood, the question of who should com pose it is very easy to answer. Certainly, if it is to be a commission for service instead of mere poli tics, its members should include the heads of the departments of engineering at the State University and the Georgia School of Technology, the State geologist and the chairman of the State Prison Commission —the last named because of the essen tial bearing of convict labor on road building. President Matheson, of the Tech, aptly observed, in addressing the Senate committee on this sub ject, that it would be a great mistake "not to util ize our expert assistance already in the State's employment.” ' These men.” he added, “have spent many years in the development of road work, and logically it would seem that the State should jump for their services.” By settling the highway commission issue promptly and reasonably the Legislature will give Georgia a clear title to two million dollars of road Improvement funds and will open the way to a golden era of development and prosperity. But should the Legislature fail to act promptly and adequately on this peculiarly urgent matter, the State will lose a priceless opportunity and the peo ple. especially those of the rural districts, will be done an unpardonable Injury. Dog days at least don't have anything expected of them. The fact that Villa is seen in so many Mexican towns at once may be due to the fact that he is a candidate for something. Hughes declares for a policy of “consistency and firmness” toward Mexico. Does a man have to be a Republican candidate to express a view like that? THE ATL ANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. AUGUST +, 1916 The Farm Loan Board. The President has lost no time in designating the members of the Farm Loan Board which is to supervise the new rural credits system. His appointments strike the country as being admira ble. Three of the men. observes the Evening Post, were bred on the farm and are still closely in touch with farm interests, while “the chief qualification of each of them is expertness in one or more of the economic and financial problems which the Board will have tp meet.” Herbert Quick, of West Virginia, whose in cisive articles on current topics frequently appear in The Journal, is an authority on all the broader aspects of rural credits; he probably will become the head of the Board. George W. Norris, of Pennsylvania, was chosen because he combines with his general fitness tor the position long expe rience in the bond marKet; and “the success of the system will depend much on the placing of its bonds.” Judge Charles E- Lobdell, of Kansas, besides being an able lawyer, has been president of a group of banks dealing extensively irl farm loans. William A. Smith, of lowa, now in the fed eral Department of Agriculture, is a specialist on farm practice. These four men will constitute the Farm Loan Board under whose direction twelve regional land banks will be established. Their prompt appoint ment makes it possible to inaugurate the rural credits system without delay. Following the establishment of the banks, the way will be clear to organize farm loan associations by farmers ’wishing to obtain loans. Thus the credit facilities, lack of which has been so heavy a handicap to America’s agricultural progress, will soon be supplied. The Compulsory Education Bill The compulsory school attendance bill recently passed by the House of Representatives has evoked highly favorable comment from educators who are in touch with the State’s practical conditions and needs. The consensus of opinion seems to be that while the bill is markedly lenient it is capable of accomplishing a vast deal of good and ought to be pressed promptly to enactment. According to reliable estimates, the proposed law would put into the schools during the next year or two some thirty thousand children who now are wholly deprived of education. That is an end worth striving for. This conservative, constructive measure ought to be placed upon the statute books without delay. No Fair Man Need Hesitate The bill before the Georgia legislature to allow the voters an opportunity to express their preference at the ballot box in the matter of exemptions of educa tional endowments should get the sanction of that body. No fair man need to hesitate to put this ques tion before the intelligent white voters of Wherein could be the objections? Take the voters o Ben Hill county, for instance. We have no private college in this county, none that is endowed by church or Individual, and there are a great many counties in the state in a similar position. The voters in these counties especially can be relied upon to vote upon this question without bias, and if a constitutional majority vote with the friends or foes of this amendment the real choice of the voters will have been ascertained. Since there is no extra expense to the state in having this measure included in the amendments to be voted on at the next regular election, why hesitate in putting the matter before the electorate? The Leader- Enterprise favors the exemption clause, for the reason that the great work done by these colleges and schools all over the state, many of which could not be carried on without such endowments, is an asset to Georgia whose real value is beyond computation. Georgia cannot hamper the education of her chil dren, the future men .and women upon whom we rely for developing the resources and continue the uplift of its citizens.—The Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise. Quips and Quiddities A young doctor recently took his best girl to the opera. The curtain was late in rising and the young lady complained of feeling faint. The doctor smiled sweetly upon her and took something out of his vest pocket. ‘‘Here,” he whispered, “keep this in your mouth. Don't swallow it.” Shyly the girl placed the object upon her tongue and" rolled it over and over, but it would not dissolve. She felt better, however. So she took the tablet from her mouth and slipped it in her glove, as she was cu rious to examine, when she got once more into the light, this tasteless little substance which had given her such relief. When the happy couple were once more outside the opera house the girl stopped under a large lamp. “That thing you gave me made me feel ever so much better,” she cooed, gratefully, wrestling with her glove. Suddenly she bent over something white and round in her palm. She looked up at his face. "Dud-dud-Dick!” she stammered in a choking voice, “why it’s nothing but a pearl shirt button!” A few months ago a lady living in the Midlands engaged a new servant, and having views on the ques tion ’of “followers,” she expounded them to the girl upon arrival. “Mind you, Jane,” she said, seriously. “I will have no loafers about the place. You quite understand?" "Yes. ma’am," replied Jane. Within the short period of a week, however, the lady had grounds for suspecting that her orders had been disobeyed, and Jane was promptly Interrogated. “Did I not make It a stipulation of your engage ment that no followers were to be allowed?” “No, ma'am. You said 'loafers.' ” "Well, you may have it that-way If you wish. You were talking to a man for ten minutes at the area gate last night.” “Yes, ma’am. That’s my chap!” said Jane, unblush ingly. “How dare you disobey my express orders In this way?” “I ain’t disobeyed ’em. ma'am!” persisted Jane. "George—that's my young man—is a baker, sure enough, but ’e ain't a loafer. 'E s a biscuit hand, ’e is.” * • • The reading class was in session and the word "furlough” occurred. Miss Jones, the teacher, asked if any little girl or boy knew the meaning of the word. One small hand was raised. "Furlough means a mule,” said the child. "Oh. no. it doesn’t,” said the teacher. "Yes, ma'am,” insisted the little girl. "I have the book at home that says so.” Miss Jones told the child to bring the book to school The next morning the child came armed with a book and triumphantly showed a picture of an American soldier riding a mule, under which was the caption; "Going home on his furlough." J A well known business man in Lawrence, Mass., once had a customer who contracted a debt that ran along unpaid for a year or more, and even several let ters failed to bring about a settlement. One day. while glancing over the religious notices in a loAJ paper, the business man saw something that gave him a new idea. He went to his desk and wrote the following note to the debtor: "My Dear Sir—l see in the local press that you are to deliver an address on Friday evening before the Y. M. C. A. on ’The Sinner’s Unbalanced Account.’ I inclose yours, as yet unbalanced, and trust that I may have the pleasure of attending your lecture.” MR. T. A. WILLIAMS, a Washington neurolo gist. once delivered an address to a class of trained nurses, pointing out the special requirements for successfully nursing nervous pa tients. Much of what he had to say bears so di rectly on nursing in general, and is so applicable by all who have to care for the sick, that I have thought it worth while to condense for ready ref erence some of his recommendations: Every nurse should cultivate that fine instinct which puts us in another's place, makes us see with another's eyes, and so prevents us from rudely trampling upon another’s feelings. , » Sh,e should know a great deal about the prepa ration of food and especially how to make it ap petizing as well as wholesome, and to serve it with neatness and taste. She should avoid such possible sources of an noyance to her paient as wearing squeaky shoes, sitting in a chair that squeaks, slamming doors, whispering, walking on tip-toe. Many patients have special dislikes. Some of these are very trivial, but the nurse cannot be too alert to observe them and act accordingly. For instance, the arrangement of the food and dishes on a tray may offend, so the nurse should carefully observe the patient’s bxpression when the first meals are brought. Water trickling from a glass may annoy. The window shade may cause an unpleasant glare or make the room too dim. To such patients the personal questions which often occur during unskilful attempts at con versation are particularly obnoxious. So also is the handling of the patient’s belong ings by the nurse. Who knows how many ex aggerated sentimental memories may not be asso- BURSTING THE OU TGROWN SHELL BT DR. FRANK ORANE Every advance of the human race is accom panied with disaster. A plant can grow sweetly, but mankind has to break something at every stage of its progress. Humanity is a growing organism, as an oak tree. It is coming up from acorn to sapling, and then to sturdy wood. « The race grows from institution to institution. First the family, then the tribe, then the nation, then humanity. At every change there is a lot of violence, passion and martyrdom. The tribes never coagulated into the nation without fighting » time first. And it seems the nations cannot develop the world state, with a sense of humanity instead of the combative sense of patriotism, without a \ast amount of slaughter and destruction. Getting together is the supreme task of man kind. It cannot be accomplished except by much killing. The path to universal brotherhoodl is b. wav of universal hate. The prelude to the millen nlum is wars and rumors of wars. Why, no one k homvs The psychological explanation of the Present war epoch is that the world is getting too big for its clothes. Our world-consciousness has gone be yond our political means of expression. M e are iiving in a world made up of nations. But nations are an anachronism. They belong to a past age of concerted activity. . We have outgrown the nation idea. And we have not yet formed a new idea wherewith clothe ourselves. . - Prof. Krehbiel, in a recent number of vey, ably points out how the nation has lost its meaning. (1) A nation is no longer a unit; for instance, there is no natural boundary New YORK, N. Y.. July 11.—Not long ago there appeared the advertisement of a certain '«»*■** able professor, who for the sum of one dollar agreed to tell people the occupations best fitted to them, to remove all evil influences and to reveal the names of their enemies. This advertisement was care fully clipped from the papers by a small, dark-haired woman with hazel eyes in a downtown office and past ed into a large book which stood on the top of a roll top desk, after which she noted an address on a tiny leather notebook. At the same time, in another section of the city, an Immigrant woman who was the proud proprietor of a small grocery store, clipped the same advertisement from the paper and stuffed it hurriedly into her handbag as her husband came into the store on the way to his mornings work. A month later the immigrant woman was shown into the downtown office of the city’s detective headquarters and introduced by the Inspector to Mrs. Isabella Good win detective, a small, dark-haired woman with keen hazel eyes. Seated in a small straight backed chair the immigrant woman told the story of a swindle, the pathos of which was not lost in its revelation of ignorance and superstition. The woman detective sat silent, occasionally taking notes and asking questions when the thread of the story became difficult to fol low. a . The immigrant woman and her husband na“ beeji ad mitted at Ellis Island five years before. The hus band. who was by trade a marble rubber, had secured a place In a small town in Pennsylvania, where he had been paid $lO a week. . For this he polished marble un der water, which, in winter, when there was ice, caused his feet to crack open and bleed, and his wife kept house. After a year of this they had accumulated monev enough to take them to New York, where the husband obtained a job at $25 a week. This was. in deed, a luxurious salary, but instead of increasing their standard of living, the immigrant woman still lived as frugally ae possible and saved money. When they had $1,500 in bank they bought a grocery store, while the husband still kept on with his work. The business was profitable, and soon the immigrant woman found she had paid the small mortgage on the store and had $3,500 in bank. She was on the verge of buying a chicken farm, selling her store and moving into the country, when the professor’s alluring ad vertisement attracted her attention and she determined to seek his advice. For the sum of $25 the professor removed an evil influence which was hovering over the immigrant wom an, told the names of several remote persons who were jealous of her, and advised her not to buy the chicken farm. Instead, he explained, she should by all means invest her money in stocks, as the stars showed that this would be her most successful line, and he re lated numerous instances of individuals who had in vested in various stocks under his direction, who were now riding in motor cars and sending their children to college. The woman had finally been convinced, and she re solved to mortgage the grocery store to obtain more money for investment so that in the end she could surprise her husband with the enormous returns of her thrift. For this money the professor presented her with impressive looking documents bearing gold seals, desezibing mining stock which had never been heard of by anyone but the professor. Then suddenly and inconspicuously the professor left town. The rest was up to Mrs. Isabella Goodwin, woman detective. In order that the professor might not learn that the police were on the case, Mrs. Goodwin disguised herself as a maid and entered the employ of neighbors of the seer. She then discovered that the professor had employed a doctor constantly while in the city, and finally obtained the name of the doctor. Here she found that the professor had been suffering from can cer of the stomach, in which case he could not have gotten far away. His plan would be to stick to the large cities, where there were specialists and plenty of medicine. Mrs. Goodwin objects to the publication of some of her methods in detecting and capturing a criminal, since in her profession the penetration of a disguise or makeup and the discovery or the crook that he is being pursued may mean the absolute fail ure of a .case and possibly a cut throat. It is. there fore, merely necessary to say that a week later the professor was apprehended and subsequently died in prison. As for the victims of the swindle, although they lost the greater part of their savings, they are re covering rapidlj’ and are now on the road to wealth again. Mrs. Goodwin considers this one of the most inter esting cases in her career on the New York detective SICK ROOM HINTS BY H. ADDINGTON BKUCB. WOMEN DE TECTIVES BT HIDXIIC I. MAIXIM. - •“* ciated with the patient’s possessions? Remember that self-assertiveness is most un tranquillizing, and the attitude of condescension to one’s work is more obnoxious still. Any appearance of strenuousness must bo avoided; unusual incidents should appear to be taken as they come, and should not be punctuat ed by astonishment or perturbation. For example, a nurse sometimes wishes to see the doctor alone, sometimes she does not. An anxious patient will at once notice a difference in the routine, and may conjure up all sorts of ter rors in consequence of a nurse leaving the room to speak to the doctor upoh his departure. . Hence the nurse should make a practice of * always leaving the room along with the doctor at the conclusion of his visit. The nurse, too, muSt think of little comforts, such as a relay of hot towels for which the pa- > tient may not think of asking, a pad under the back, the right p’acing of a light, etc. What is read aloud to a patient must be select ed with great discrimination. Ask the doctor’s ad vice as to books or other reading matter that should be avoided. Be particularly careful neither by word nor act to intensify the patient’s nervousness and anxiety about the outcome of the illness. These hints by no means embody the whole philosophy of successful nursing. But their ob servance may mean the difference between success and failure, and will certainly do much to rob the sick-room of its terrors. Therefore it will not be amiss to clip out this list of recommendations and keep it available for use when illness is in the home. (Copyright, 1916, by H. A. Bruce.) i between the United States and Canada, between Germany and Russia, etc. (2) A nation is no longer a racial unit; Great Britain and the United States are substantially the same race. (3) It is no longer a unit in language; see Austria and Switzer land. (4) Nor a religious unit. (5) Nor an economic or commercial unit, since trade is world wide. A nation is not a personality; it is a beehive. He shows indeed that nationalism is no more nor less than a religion. It exists simply because we believe it to exist. We believe this because our fathers believed it, and we have not yet learned a better faith. Its basis is tradition, lack of imagina tion, and lack of vision. A singular evidence of our crass stupidity is an incident that occurred recently in New York. A radical preacher burned the American flag, along with those of other nations, to symbolize the supremacy of the international idea. His act was not wrong; it was worse; it was foolish. Because r I hold the state supreme above the claims of my family I don’t need to kick my sister nor insult my mother. And I can follow humanity and still love and reverence my country. Yet here is the one big idea that can relieve the world of the curse of war, the idea of humanity as above the nation, and not one newspaper or mag azine of general circulation that I know of is en thusiastically recommending it; all are in the blind welter of nationalism, and the only man to make the big Idea lurid before the public is an enthusiast who shocks and offends our sensibilities. Still, perhaps that is the way. You remember Walter Pater’s word: “The path to perfection lies through a series of disgusts.” (Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane.) force, perhaps because of its human element*. For, de-| spite her facility in handing people over to the law, Mrs. Goodwin is a humanitarian. Twenty years ago she herself felt the pinoh of adversity when she was left with four children to support. She secured a po sition as police matron, but her natural ability for detective work was soon evidenced and she was given her first case. In New York it is Illegal to gamble on horse races. Os course, there are races, and it is well known that individuals bet on them, but no organized booking and gambling is permitted. Hence when It became known at headquarters that a number of women were meeting in the back room of a liquor store for the purpose of placing money on the races, a woman detective was required to get the evidence. Mrs. Goodwin became a regular member of the meet ings, where no one suspected her profession, and finally turned the whole establishment over to the police. The majority of cases handled by women detectives in New York deal with petty swindles, such as the arrest of alleged physicians practicing without certifi cates, fortune tellers, mediums, small thieves, etc., which are of a less dangerous order. For most of the larger crimes, dealing with murders, thefts, black mail, kidnapping and smuggling men are used. It is estimated that nearly ninety-five per cent of the crimes committed In New York are the work of foreigners, y and for this reason it Is necessary to maintain men of several nationalities on the detective staff. For ex ample, almost every kidnapping case is perpetrated by Italians against their own people in this country, so that it is necessary to have an Italian detective handle the affair. If a German is the principal factor in a case, then a German detective covers It, and the same Is true of Spaniards, Norwegians, Swedes and every other nationality. Women are employed to ob tain evidence Tn offices, boarding houses and apart ments, but when there is grave and apparent danger connected with the case it is given to a man. Thus when a $25,000 robbery occurred one day and Mrs. Goodwin was called to cover the case, she was agreeably surprised, since it was her ambition to work on bigger things. A bank clerk and a messenger, car rying a bag containing $25,000 in a taxicab, were at tacked and the money taken away from them. A glimpse of a disappearing taxicab speeding In the other direction w*as the only clue turned In at detective head- ( quarters. The detective authorities, however, had oc casion to suspect two men of the theft—men who were already well known and much desired at headquarters , for various other crimes. It was also Known that these men frequented a boarding house in a downtown street, where they planned their crimes with two women of equally desperate character. It became Mrs. Good win's task, therefore, to gain access to this boarding house and to secure evidence that these men had com mitted the taxicab crime. Dressed In untidy clothes, with her hair screwed In a knot and speaking with an unmistakable Irish brogue, she obtained employment in the boarding house as a maid. Seeing in the new maid nothing but a slovenly, good-natured Irish woman of Incredible stupidity, the women in the case allowed her to enter their room, run errands for them, and otherwise gain all the nec essary evidence to convict the four of them. The de tective came out of this house, however, with a well developed case of nerves, since It was inhabited by crooks of the most dangerous sort, who. If they had once suspected her mission, wrould have immediately killed her. Afraid to sleep at night when her disguise might be discovered. Mrs. Goodwin kept awake by drinking great quantities of black coffee and relieved the nervous tedium by planning where to send her daughter to school. f For her valuable assistance In this case she was made detective sergeant, and her future as a woman detective was assured. She can-probably tell you more about the underworld than any other woman in New York, with all its horrors, its peculiar social strata and its occasional elements of pathos. There is one popu lar fallacy, which the New York detective force would fain correct, and that is the assertion as to there being honor among thieves. They do not believe that there is a single crook who will not turn state’s evidence aga'nst another to save himself. There are now’ five women detectives on the New York detective staff, and they have had exceptionally few failures. The profession is gradually widening for women. The only difficulty in securing the femi nine force lies in the fact that It takes a woman of stony forbearance and an unusual appreciation of the public good not to fee! sorry for the average crook and let him go. with several suggestions for leading i a better and a nobler life.