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Growth of Packing Houses.
The growth of the packing bouse industry in
the South is strikingly attested by the fact that
daring the first week of August plans were an
nounced for four new enterprises of the kind, rep
resenting a total investment of half a million dol
lars. The salient features of each of them are
summed up as follows in the current issue of the
Manufacturers Record:
The Union Stockyards & Packing Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn., has incorporated with
>150,000 capital. It plans to provide for a
daily capacity of 200 hogs, 50 head of cattle
and 50 head of sheep.
The Orangpburg Packing Co., Orangeburg,
S. C., has incorporated with >IOO,OOO capital,
but has not determined details of ,its plant.
J. B. Bruce. Greenville. S. C., is chairman of a
committee organizing a >IOO,OOO company.
W. W. Greer. Wilmington, N. is organ
izing a >IOO.OOO company which proposes a
daily capacity of 150 to 200 hogs and 30 cat
tle. including provisions for adding cold-stor
age units until a capacity of 1,000 hogs is
reached.
The Waycross Packing Plant, Waycross.
Ga.. has organized with plans for building
costing >40.000 and machinery costing
>15,000.
Os interest in this connection is the news
that construction is progressing upon Ar
mour & Co.'s Jacksonville (Fla.) plant, and
that this will have a larger capacity than was
at first proposed. The original plan was for a
daily capacity or 200 cattle. 200 sheep and
500 hogs, and the latter will probably be in
creased to 1,000. The main building will be
a two-story brick structure, and its equipment
will include 30 to 50-ton daily capacity re
frigerating machine, two 100-horse-power
boilers, closed loading dock with daily ca
pacity of six to eight carloads.
There could be no better omen of the South’s
development. The packing house is both an effect
and a cause of diversified agriculture. The plant
ing of corn and forage lays a foundation for hog
and cattle raising and that, in turn, opens way for
meat-packing industries. It is equally true that
the packing house, affording as it does a ready and
dependable market for hogs and cattle, encourages
the live-stock industry and thereby encourages di
versified farming.
Cotton.
"Whether the reduction of the cotton crop
, was voluntary or involuntary the South has
reaped the benefit of the curtailment. Prices
are high and the uncomfortable surplus of the
big crop of 1914 has been worked off with
profit to those who had the patience and were
able to hold. Southern farmers have diversi
fied their crops and have learned the advantage
of not having to depend on one crop. It is to
be hoped that they will stick to diversified
farming and not go back to the old one-crop
idea which has kept them in a state of financial
servitude.”
The wisdom of these words from the New
York Commercial is particularly appreciated in the
States which have learned through hard experience
the hazards of the all-cotton system. The biggest
cotton crop the South ever raised proved the least
profitable; in some respects, indeed, it proved al
most disastrous. In the autumn and winter of
1914 millions and millions of bales of distress cot
ton went begging for a market at starvation prices.
Farmers were unable to meet their obligations, and
as a result every wheel in the South's business ma
chinery was retarded or blocked.
In the following year, when the cotton acreage
was reduced and food staples were raised in abund
ance, prosperity returned full-tided and the South
enjoyed one of the richest autumns it ever knew.
The lessons of that time should be of perma
nent value. Never again should Southern farmers
stake their hopes and fortunes entirely on a single
crop. Such a policy, besides being contrary to all
the principles of efficient agriculture, is a gamble
with fate which no thoughtful farmer will risk
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•Editorial Echoes.
The president of the southern states' woman
suffrage conference. Miss Kate Gordon, praises
President Wilson for his stand on woman suffrage
and declares her opinion that women voters will
not be deceived by Mr. Hughes' "bait of a federal
amendment as a short-cut to woman suffrage.”
Miss Gordon’s opinion illustrates the probable fact
that very many women democrats will vote the
democratic ticket and many women republicans the
republican ticket without reference to a minor dif
ference of personal opinion in regard to a question
on which the candidates agree in principle.
In Boston a photographer surreptitiously snap
ped a young blonde. The young blonde called him
an impudent mammothrept. He had strength
enough left to grope for a dictionary, which in
formed him that in the young blonde’s eyes he was
"a child reared by its grandmother; a spoiled
child.” If he were to pack that word up carefully
and take it down to Oyster Bay, he might be able
to sell it for its weight in gold.—New York Evening
Post.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
The People of Georgia
Should Watch and Think
When a railway corporation which its notorious
for political stratagems and spoils and which is
obviously bent upon ruling or ruinirg the Western
and Atlantic Road has three candidates running
for three offices ci vital import to the State, it is
time for the people of Georgia to watch and
think.
A trusted attorney of this corpnrV’i’i if now
a candidate for Governor.
A dependable ally of this corporation is now a
candidate for Comptroller General.
A willing friend of this corporation is now a
candidate for Railroad Commiss’oner.
Os all the ambitious schemes ever spun by
commercial Bourbonism, this is the most audacious
and far-reaching; for it aims at the state’s ex
executive power through the Governorship, the
State's taxing power through the Comptroller
Generalship, and the State's rate-fixing power over
railroads through a Railroad Commissionership.
With these three offices in charge of its own faith
ful servants, this corporation would hold the in
terests of Georgia in the hollow of its itching
palm. Its plans to parallel the Western and At
lantic Railroad would go glibly forward. Its
fight against the extension of the Western and
Atlantic to the sea would be reinforced in high
places. Its fixed purpose to dominate or else de
stroy the State's most valuable property would be
heartened as never before. It could throw off its
mask and freely resume its natural attitude —“the
public be damned!”
In other States and other times this railroad
corporation has relied, for political power, mostly
upon free passes—of which it distributed some
twenty-three thousand in a single year—and upon
minor influences, such as jurors, inferior court
judges, legislative candidates and ordinary lobby
ists. But its stake in Georgia at this time is es
pecially great; wherefore, it needs a higher order
of assistance. It is playing for a piece of railroad
property which is now owned by the people, which
is worth today between sixteen and twenty mil
lion dollars and will be worth incomparably more
if duly protected and developed, which is the bed
rock of the State's credit resources and a main
stay of its public school fund —a priceless heritage
of the Commonwealth. Bent upon exploiting such
treasure, is it to be wondered that this corporation
can be satisfied with nothing less than the Gov
ernorship, the Comptroller Generalship and a
Railroad Commissionership?
It was grievously offended when the Legislature
passed the anti-parallelling act. It has challenged
the constitutionality of the law. which is designed
simply to safeguard the interests of the public
against the greed of private privilege; and having
failed in the courts, it has turned to gubernatorial
politics. For our own part, we have no criticism
whatever of any employe or agent of this corpora
tion who works openly and candidly in its behalf.
Its counsel, its representatives and its friends
have an unquestionable right to render profes
sional service and draw professional pay. But —
When one of its counsel is put into the race
for Governor, when one of its allies is put into the
race for Comptroller General, when one of its
friends is put into the race for a seat on the Rail
road Commission, it is time indeed for the people
of Georgia to take serious thought.
Shall the Western and Atlantic Railroad be
preserved as the people’s possession, or delivered
to the special interests that covet it?
Shall the laws enacted to protect this great
property be administered by a Governor who be
lieves in them, or by one who was employed to
defeat them?
Shall the Comptrollership be left in the hands
of an official who through thirty-eight years of
competent service has stood unflinchingly for the
rights of the State, or shall this responsible office
be turned over to the candidate of a law-defying
corporation?
Shall Georgia remain a self-governing Com
monwealth, or shall it become the gull and prey
of a railroad that despises public opinion, that
mocks the law’ of State and nation alike, that
browbeats where it cannot bribe, and sticks dog
gedly to the old order when corrupt business and
corrupt went hand in hand?
One need only turn to the records of federal
inquiries into the affairs of this corporation to
find evidence of its political activities in other
Southern States. And one need only glance at the
current campaign in this State to see that the
same corporation is subtly and ambitiously at
work in Georgia. Do the people realize the game
that is afoot? Do they grasp the full significance
of the interests and the principles at* stake? It
behooves them, for their own welfare, to think
carefully, watch keenly, and search well the
motives and alliances of all candidates who seek
their suffrage.
The Peach Season.
Georgia's peach shipments this summer are ac
counted the most profitable the State ever has
known. Though the crop was short, prices were
good and the marketing service was highly effi
cient. Approximately a thousand more cars were
shipped in 1915, but prices then averaged eighty
seven cents a crate as compared with a dollar and
sixty cents this season. The value of the sum
mer's exports is estimated at between two and a
half and three million dollars.
This record appears the more remarkable when
it is remembered that continuous rains caused the
fruit to ripen ahead of time and that the July
floods disorganized traffic in a critical period. For
a while the situation seemed desperate. But thanks
to the energy and resourcefulness of the Georgia
Fruit Exchange, these emergencies were mastered
and the growers were saved irreparable loss. A
more striking instance of the value of organized
methods of marketing could not be found. Prob
lems that would have been hopeless to the indi
vidual grower were solved easily by the Exchange.
The fact that of all the peach States Georgia has
earned the richest and steadiest returns is due
largely to an efficient system of marketing the
fruit.
When such methods are applied to food crops
generally, there will be no need of urging farm di
versification. There could be no surer incentive
to the raising of grain, potatoes, peas, hogs and
cattle and other staples of the kind than a market
ing system whereby they would find ready sales.
The home demand for such products is far greater
than the foreign demand for peaches. Georgia
spends millions upon millions of dollars in import
ing, at high prices and from distant points, neces
saries which its own soil can produce in abundance.
Adequate marketing service is thus the key to one
of our greatest needs and greatest opportunities.
Learn From the Cat
HATS are much like people, they have an ad
mixture of good qualities and qualities that
are not so good. Also, like people, they
differ markedly from one another.
But all cats —at least, all cats that I have ever
seen —possess one characteristic in common. And
it is a characteristic which it were to be wished
all human beings possessed in like degree.
This characteristic is avoidance of unnecessarv
w’orry. So far as worry is concerned a cat, in
deed, is philosophic to an extent comparatively
few of us attain.
In my own home there has been for a year an
energetic young tomcat, black and white, short,
broad, husky. This little cat, Peter, is perpetually
eager to be on the go.
He is a fresh air enthusiast, outdoors at every
opportunity. Naturally he has had some exciting
adventures, particularly with dogs.
Somehow Peter always manages to escape a
pursuing dog. He may have to dash madly,
scramble undignifiedly. But always he is able to
perch somewhere —on fence top, or tree branch—
out of the dog’s reach.
Does he, having made his escape, sit fussing
and fuming over the close call he has had? Not
at all.
The moment he knows he is safe he becomes
placid, calm, care-free. Meditatively he gazes at
the disappointed dog yelping and gyrating beneath
him.
In the house he displays the same philosophic
spirit.
He has learned what the dinner-gong means,
and at the first sound he hastens to the dining
room, where he knows he has a saucer on the
hearth.
He is too early. The saucer is empty. Very
well, he can wait. He may perhaps walk leisurely
around the room two or three times. But he re
fuses to indulge In worry.
Instead he presently leaps upon a window sill
to watch what is happening outdoors. Or he may
curl up for a little nap—until he hears some one
pick up his saucer, when he is all attention once
more.
Whatever else he does, he avoids the error
of fretfulness.
Peter is not an exceptional cat. I have noticed
similar behavior in other cats that I have ob
served at all closely.
And it has dawned upon me that if cats, as is
said, have nine lives, they owe about eight of
these lives to their freedom from useless worry.
Contrast their behavior with that of many men
and women worrying all day.
Some people actually seem to be looking aB
the time for excuses to worry. If they can’t find
real excuses, they invent a few. And this kind of
inventing is the easiest in the world.
Do their worrying ways help them one lota?
Are they thereby made happier, more energetic,
more successful?
' It is the other way about. Worry means un
happiness, weakness, failure. Always it is de
vitalizing not energizing.
To chronic worriers, therefore, I suggest, learn
from the cat. Take a cat into your home and let
that cat be to you not merely a family pet, but a
good example.
(Copyright, 1916, by The Associated Newspapers.)
Quips and Quiddities
It was the annual reunion of all the members of the
Globe Trotters’ club. Speeches had been made by every
body who was anybody; this and that proposition had
been seconded by so-and-so, and all the usual business
inevitable at such a gathering had been waded through.
Then the chairman rose to his feet, holding in his hand
a handsome watch.
“Gentlemen,” he said impressively, “byway of a
novelty the club will present this watch to the member
who tells us all the most palpable He.”
Then the contest started. All sorts of yarns were
narrated, describing sundry wildly impossible adven
tures, and then it was the turn of Jigson, a gentleman
with a mania for angling.
“Gentlemen,” he said, apologetically, "I trust that
you will allow me to refrain from entering this pecu
liar contest.”
“Why?” they all cried.
"On principle,” replied Jigson, proudly. "I have no
inclination to tell lies.
Then everybody yelled. “You’ve won!”
And he had.
• a •
“Why is it,” asked the inquisitive husband, "that
you never ask any one if your hat is on straight, as I
so often hear other women do?”
“Well, if you must know,” replied his wife, “it is
because I love you so much. «
“But I fail to see what your love for me has to do
with it.”
“Why, just think how it would disgrace you if I
were to call any one’s attention to the only hat I have
had in three years.”
And that’s why on the very next occasion she went
out she appeared in the latest creation of the milliner’s
art.
• • ♦
A countryman visiting Dublin for the first time
took a seat in a tram. Being next to a pompous
looking swell, he commenced conversation in a rather
free and easy style. At length the mighty one said:
"My good man, reserve your conversation for one
of your own equals. I’d have you know I’m aK. C.”
At this the countryman stood up with outstretched
hands, exclaiming: "Shake hands, namesake; I’m a
Casey myself.”
The Georgia Land Congress.
Georgia has more land. than any other State
east of the Mississippi. It is five times bigger
than Belgium, whose population before the war
was seven and a half millions. It is nearly five
times bigger than Holland, whose population is six
millions, it is as big as England and Wales com
ftined, whose population is thirty-five millions.
Within the bounds of this Commonwealth we have
upwards of fifty-nine thousand square miles of
land, of which only thirty-two per cent is in cul
tivation.
Imagine a tithe of these idle acres converted
to agricultural or industrial uses. What marvels of
new’ wealth could be produced! What wonders of
material and human progress could be achieved!
The State could sustain five times its present num
ber of inhabitants, and still have room a-plenty
for several of the kingdoms of Europe. We have
not only the land, but the soil and climate and all
other natural resources which form the bases of
prosperity. Every food staple that can be grown
in America can be grown in Georgia, and almost
every means of livelihood to be found elsewhere
can be found or developed here.
How to turn these vast potentialities to more
profitable account will be the subject of the Land
Owners’ Congress which is to be held at Waycross
on August the seventeenth. This enterprise is sup
ported by representative men in various parts of
the State, men of business wisdom and public
spirit who realize that if even a fair portion of
Georgia’s idle lands are developed, an era of pros
perity such as we have scarcely dreamed of will
ensue.
The subject calls for careful thought and for
concerted plans of action. Hasty or reckless
schemes w’ould do infinitly more harm* than good.
But a practical, conservative conference like that
to be held at Waycross this month can point the
way to sound policies and fruitful results. It is
to be hoped, therefore, that every land-owning cit
izen who is at all interested in this field of enter
prise. either from a standpoint of his own welfare
or that of the State, will avail himself of the op
portunities which the forthcoming congress affords.
There are mans earnest souls occupied in try
ing to do people good.
There are nine million societies, more or less,
organized to improve and to ameliorate.
There are preachers, missionaries, evangelists,
reformers, exhorters, viewers-with-pride, and point
ers-with-alarm without number wrestling with sin
ners.
All forms of industry are booming these days
in the United States of America, but the uplift
business is still several laps ahead.
It seems ungracious to say a word to any en
thusiastic person who is engaged in so laudable an
enterprise as that of rescuing the perishing, feed
ing the hungry, and healing the sick.
And yet, when you take time to think right
through to the bottom of things, you must come to
the conclusion that there is but one real, radical
and effective way to help your fellow men, and
that is the way called justice.
If I want to redeem the world I can come near
er my object, and do less harm, by being just to
ward myself and just toward everybody else, than
by "doing good” to people.
The only untainted charity is justice.
Often our ostensible charities serve but to ob
scure and palliate great evils. •
Conventional charity drops pennies in the beg
gar’s cup, carries bread to the starving, distributes
clothing to the naked. Real charity, which is jus
tice, sets about removing the conditions that make
beggary, starvation, and nakedness.
Conventional charity plays Lady Bountiful; jus
tice tries to establish such laws as shall give em
ployment to all, so that they need no bounty.
Charity makes the Old Man of the Sea feed
sugar plums to the poor devil he is riding and
choking; justice would make him get off his vic
tim’s back.
HERE are two kinds of wealth. There is
T wealth of pelf and there is wealth of self.
Not everybody can amass the former. But
everybody can gain the w’ealth of a well-rounded,
well cultivated personality. And of the two this is
infinitely the more important kind of wealth.
Yet for one man who tries to gain inner wealth,
there are a hundred who strive feverishly for
wealth that is external.
Os the hundred, scarcely one can become what
the world calls wealthy. And of the successful one
it may truly be said that his external wealth will
profit him little, unless with it he has gained inner
wealth.
As evidence of this, witness the fate that over
takes many successful men cf business when, having
retired from business life, they start to enjoy the
leisure their gold has given them.
They become lestless, uneasy, nervous. Often
they become physically broken, and perish within a
year or two of their retirement.
“How sad and strange it is,” people then say,
“that a man should have to die as soon as he is in
a position to get a great deal out of life.”
It certainly is sad. But it is not at all strange.
The explanation is really simple.
The restlessness, uneasiness, nervousness, and
breakdowns are all due to the fact that when these
men have retired from business, they have noth
ing within themselves to fall back on for active
mental occupation.
They are rich in gold, but they are poor in
inner resources. Their one real interest has been
In the conduct of business affairs, in money mak
ing.
They have never cultivated an interest in litera
ture, in art, in music, in philosophy, in any of the
things that really count in enlarging a man’s per-
W ASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—If you want to travel In
China and ge the benefit of old-time local color
and quaint customs, the time for your voyage
is growing short. If you delay, you may find the
Chinese coolie dressed in the latest American-made
hand-me-downs, his shaggy ponies harnessed with
American harness, his thatched hut papered with the
last design in wall paper and adorned with chromes
and lithographs struck off in U. S. A. We have just
put into effect a parcel post agreement with the Chinese
republic. Four hundred million people are added to the
mail order market of the United States. Anything that
can be put in eleven-pound packages can be shipped to
any part of China for 12 cents a pound.
• • •
This is likely to prove an Important step for both
countries in many ways. For China it means that she
is able to trade in the world’s biggest mall order mar
ket under conditions practically as favorable as those
of American citizens living in remote states. For the
United States it means a chanoe to attack the Chinese
market problem from a new angle. China is recognized
as the greatest market in the world in many ways. The
field is practically undeveloped. The country is densely
populated and by no means poor. The people are not a
manufacturing people; they are a typical buying, nation.
They are just beginning to ask for the products of
western manufacture. It has long been clear that
China represents a good American opportunity.
• • •
The chief drawback has been the uncertainty of
local conditions. Americans have been slow to put
their money in China, outside a few big treaty ports,
because a disturbance of some sort or another was
always likely to arise which would mean a heavy loss.
But if the market can be served by mail to any
great extent, with stock and plant safe on American
soil, and no risk necessary in China except a catalogue
printed in Chinese, there would seem to be a chance for
the enterprising exporter.
An immense number of smaJl articles, both cheap
and expensive, can be ordered and shipped outright
under the eleven-pound limit system. But Mr. R* L.
Maddox, our superintendent of foreign mails, believes
that the most important results of the new parcel post
convention will in the long run be indirect rather than
direct. The convention gives American goods a chance
to establish themselves in popular favor in China.
Every article with the “Made in U. S. A.” stamp that is
ordered at a fair price, that is up to £atalogue descrip
tion and satisfactory in quality, means a strong adver
tisement for all American goods. And this widespread
advertisement among the masses is what the goods of
any nation needs before they can take a real hold in a
foreign country.
After any given American firm has rendered satis
factory service with the class of goods that are shipped
in parcel post packages, it has a certain right to look
for mail orders of a larger sort that will be shipped
by freight. Nowadays everything from a fish hook to
an automobile or a portable house can be bought by
mail: and it is just under such conditions as prevail in
China, where the local dealer who carries automobiles
or portable houses in stock is conspicuous by his
absence, that the mail order catalogue is in its element.
Os course, there was always the possibility of selling
goods in China by mail, the order to be shipped by
freight. But shipping cheap trifles by freight is hardly
practicable, and it is from just such small beginnings
that confidence and larger orders must grow. The new
convention gives America a chance to sell a large
variety of goods to China strictly by mail, aqd on such
a foundation an important commercial structure may
be built.
It will come as something of a surprise to many
people that the postoffice system in China is sufficiently
efficient and well organized to handle a country-wide
parcel post. As a matter of fact, there are considerable
and populous Chinese districts untapped by railroad
lines, but the network of rivers in the Flowery King
dom gives an excellent basis for communication, and
one that is liberally made use of. The importance of
water routes in China is shown by the article in the
convention which provides for the present parcels
destined for points which are not reached by steam
transport must not be over one cubit foot in volume.
JUSTICE
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
GET INNER WEALTH
BY H. ADDINGTON BBUCB.
PARCEL POST TO CHINA
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
Conventional charity piously accepts things as
they are, and helps the unfortunate; justice goes to
the legislature and changes things.
Charity swats the fly; justice takes away the
dung heaps that breed flies.
Charity gives quinine in the malarial tropics;
justice drains the swamps.
Charity sends surgeons and ambulances and
trained nurses to the war; justice struggles to se
cure that internationalism that will prevent war.
Charity works among slum wrecks; justice
dreams and plans that there be no more slums.
Charity scrapes the soil’s surface; justice sub
soils.
Charity is affected by symptoms; justice by
causes.
Charity assumes evil institutions and customs
to be a part of “Divine Providence,” and tearfully
works away at taking care of the wreckage; justice
regards injustice everywhere, custom buttressed
and respectable or not, as the work of the devil,
and vigorously attacks it. •
Charity is timid and is alw’ays passing the col
lection box; justice is unafraid and asks no alms,
no patrons, no benevolent support.
“It is presumed,” says Henry Seton Merriman,
"that the majority of people are willing enough
to seek the happiness of others; which desire leads
the individual to interfere with his neighbor’s af
fairs, while it burdens society with a thousand as
sociations for the welfare of mankind or the rais
ing of the masses.”
The best part of the human race does not
want help, nor favor, nor charity; it w’ants a fair
chance and a square deal. \ ,
Charity is man’s kindness.
Justice is God’s.
(Copyright, 1916, by Dr. Crane.)
sonallty and in making it possible for him to enjoy
life under all circumstances.
Leisure therefore brings to them only boredom
They feel miserable, but they do not know’ why.
They do not for a moment suspect that the
trouble is w’holly with themoelves, with the poverty
of their personality.
This same phenomenon of boredom, unhappi
ness, and ill-health resulting from inner poverty is
constantly in evidence around us. Very rich men
who have retired from business are by no means
the only ones to manifest it.
Observe any man, and note carefully how he.
passes his time when not actively occupied in the
mental or manual labor by w’hich he gains his liveli
hood.
In order to determine whether he is rich or
poor in inner resources, you have only to reckon
the extent to which he is dependent on other peo
ple for his enjoyment, and on non-intellectual
recreations. /
Now apply this test to your own case. Ask
whether you are happy or discontened when you
have only yourself as a source of enjoyment.
If the latter, you may be*sure that you are
lacking in inner wealth. If the former, you are
heartily to be congratulated.
And if you find yourself lacking in inner
wealth —what then? Must you remain lacking?
Not at all. At any age of life you can begin
amassing inner wealth by developing intellectual
interests. That is all you need do. *
Add immaterial interests to your material in
terests. Take up with enthusiasm some develop
mental study—the study of nature, art, literature,
whatever you please.
Thus you will grow’ in inner wealth, the
that is most worth while.
(Copyright, 1916, by the Associated Newspapers.)
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
But to all principal points—a list of several hundred—
packages may be considerably larger.
• • b
The confidence placed in China, by the United States
in the matter of the parcel post is only a continuance
of the same sentiment that we showed two years ago
in letting the Chinese office handle our letter mall with
out hesitation as soon as China entered the Universal
Postal union, on September 1, 1914. Up to that time
postal union mail had been handled through the inter
mediary of the services maintained m China by other
countries.
• e e
The ratification of parcel post conventions has
always proved a valuable aid in promoting commerce .
and good understanding between two countries. By a
coincidence, the agreement between China and the
United States went into effect just twelve years to the
day after a similar agreement between this country
and Japan began to operate. The opportunity to ship
to Japan has been freely used, but much larger results
may be looked for in China, because Japan is, /?o far
as she’can be, a manufacturing nation who prefers to
export rather than import manufactured products.
China, on the other hand, is frankly a buyer nation.
• • •
One of the most important recent parcel post con
ventions was that which we arranged with the Argen
tine republic about a year ago. There has been a
noticeable stimulus to our export trade with Argentina
as a result. We have now parcel post conventions in
operation with every country in South and Central
America except Paraguay, which has no seacoast, and
must therefore be reached by transportation belonging
to other nations. None the less, postoffice officials
believe that there is a prospect of concluding an agree
ment eventually with Paraguay also.
« • •
Under international parcel post conventions It is
possible to ship any package within the size limit, up to
eleven pounds in weight, for a flat* rate of 12 cents a
pound to any part of the world where a convention
obtains. The rate is the same to Guatemala and China.
• • •
Several other parcel post conventions have been rat
ified recently, including those with Greece and Liberia,
as well as with a number of British colonies. It is
interesting to note that our’ first parcel post convention
was with the British colony of Jamaica, which went
into effect on October 1, 1887.
• • •
From this it is obvious that we had foreign parcel
post long before we had a domestic system; and, in fact,
for many years it was possible to send a heavy package
by mail from New York to London or Berlin, but not
from New York to Brooklyn. In many countries for
eign parcel post has antedated domestic; Mnd in almost
every case the foreign conventions have resulted even
tually ip the establishment of a domestic system.
The multiplication of international parcel post sys
tems is going on steadily, and points clearly to the day
when the whole world will be so linked together. The
war has proved something of a setback but there are
excellent prospects that the United States will conclude
such agreements in the near future with Spain, Por
tugal and Russia. With most, of the principal Euro
pean countries they are already in force.
The most important conventions from the economic
point of view are those which link us with buyer
nations like Argentina and China. They are valuable
aids in the war for trade which we shall have to wage
with redoubled vigor after the other war in Europe is
over.
t
A minister meeting a parishioner of his who had
been quite recently married, and about whose domestic
happiness terrible stories were rife, saluted him and
said:
“Well, John, and how is all goin" on?”
“Oh, happy enough." returned John.
“I’m glad to hear it. You know there were rumors
of rows or ”
“Rows?” said John. “Oh. yes, there are plenty of
rows; whenever she sees me she catches the first, thing
at hand, a dish or anything, and fires it at me. If
she hits me, she’s happy; if she doesn't, I am. Oh,
we’re getting on fine.”