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An Outrage Upon Georgia.
We print elsewhere a communication in which
the executive heads of six of the railroads* now
seeking a revision of intrastate freight rates in
Georgia assert that The Journal's criticism of the
proposed rate increases is unwarranted, because
the figures upon which it is predicated are “wholly
erroneous.”
It is not our purpose to enter into a controversy
with these gentlemen concerning matters of record.
The best evidence in the case is their own petition
on file with the State Railroad Commission. It
was from that petition, as originally presented, that
the figures on which our comments have been based
were derived. When, for example, we said that
the roads proposed to charge more for hauling a
carload of fresh meat from Moultrie to Atlanta
than is charged for hauling a carload of fresh meat
from Ohio river crossings to Atlanta, we referred
to rates which the roads, on March the seventh
last, submitted to the State Commission for its ap
proval. If they have modified their first proposal,
as regards this and other rates, they have done so
■imply because the beating light of publicity drove
them from their indefensible stand.
They now declare that they want only forty
three cents a hundred pounds on shipments of fresh
meat from Moultrie to Atlanta (an increase of ten
cents per hundred over the present rate), but this
represents a retreat from their original position,
for in a statement to The Journal on April the
eleventh last the roads said: .
“The highest possible rate that could be
found would be fifty-one cents per hundred
pounds, equal to $lO2 per car of 20,000
pounds, on fresh meat —which is the proposed
rate of the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic
railroad for the distance from Moultrie to
Atlanta.**
We dwell on these rather tedious details because
they show that the attitude of the roads is to go
as far as they dare and can in taxing Georgia indus
tries, regardless of what is reasonable and just. In
their original petition they contended that the rate
increases then asked for were the result of pains
taking and scientific thought and, moreover, were
necessary in order to harmonize intrastate with in
terstate rates. Those proposals, the carriers as
serted, represented the minimum basis on which
they could e&rn a fair profit and comply with in
terstate revisions. Yet, they now abandon, in part
at least, their first extortionate claims, and recede
to claims a bit less extortionate. That is to say, if
they cannot cut a full pound of flesh from the heart
of Georgia industries, they will magnanimously
agree to accept fifteen ounces.
The esteemed and distinguished gentlemen,
whose communication we publish elsewhere, tell us
that the rate now proposed on shipments of fresh
meat from Moultrie to Atlanta is only forty-three
cents per hundred pounds as compared with forty
eight cents per hundred pounds from Ohio river
crossings to Atlanta. Well, let us agree (if the
roads, for once, will stand pat on their figures and
not change them overnight) that forty-three cents
i*. the rate proposed. What will that mean to
Georgia .interests, if the State Commission allows
ft? It will mean that a Georgia packing industry
will have to pay eighty-six dollars for shipping a
car of meat two hundred and sixty miles within
the State, while its powerful competitors in the
West can ship the same amount of meat four hun
dred and seventy-four miles into Georgia for only
ninety-six dollars. It will mean that the Georgia
industry will have to pay ninety per cent of the
Cincinnati-to-Atlanta rate although its shipment
goes only fifty-five per cent of the Cincinnati-to-
Atlanta distance.
The audacity of such a proposal is hardly par
alleled outside the legends of Captain Kidd. Think
of the railroads charging a Georgia industry—an
infant industry in whose growth the State’s eco
nomic welfare is fundamentally involved—forty
three cents per hundred pounds for shipping meat
from Moultrie to Atlanta when the great packing
Concerns of the West can ship their products all
the way from the Ohio river to Atlanta for only
forty-eight cents per hundred pounds! Such a
hold-up would be not only injurious. It would be
insulting.
This proposed rate appears the more exorbitant
and discriminatory when it is noted that in Illinois
the combined cost of shipping a car of meat prod
ucts rrom farms to packing houses and from pack
ing houses back to points of origin for an average
distance of one hundred and fifty-nine miles is
$52.40, while in Georgia the combined cost, under
the proposed rates, would be $lO6. Thus the rail
roads operating in Georgia would charge, for the
same service, $53.60 more than do the railroads
in Illinois. It will be said, of course, byway of re
joinder. that the volume of such traffic in Georgia
is not sufficient to justify the western rate; and
within reasonable limits that is true. But the rail
roads do,not pause at a reasonable limit. They
propose to advance the present rate on shipments
of food animals from Georgia farms to Georgia
packing plants thirty-eight per cent and. on top of
that, to advance the present rate on shipments of
finished products from packing plants to local mar
kets upwards of one hundred per cent. Does any
one imagine that our native packing industries,
which are just beginning to prosper could survive
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1916.
| such treatment? How could they compete, even in
their home markets, with a western concern which
in i*ts own territory would have incomparably lower
rates and which would be able to send its products
into Georgia for only five cents, per hundred
pounds, more than the Georgia industries would be
charged for intrastate shipments?
Do the railroads expect to develop the State’s
resources and to upbuild their traffic by such meth
ods? Their plea, reduced ’to its essence, is that
there is not yet enough shipping of meat products
within Georgia to justify reasonable rates on such
commodities; wherefore, they propose to make
these rates so high that there can be no such
shipping at all! This is a most astonishing scheme
of efficiency. One naturally would assume that the
railroads would proceed on the idea of producing
and fostering business; but. as far as Georgia is
concerned, they now proceed on the idea of dis
couraging and exterminating business.
The only theory on which we can explain their
amazing attitude is that they expect the aggregate
increases under their proposed revision to yield
them such an enormous surplus over their present
earnings that the utter loss of one or two industries
will not matter. The increases which they propose
on fertilizer and cotton-seed meal alone would
amount to eight hundred thousand dollars a year,
according to official estimate of Hon. James D.
Price, the State Commissioner of Agriculture. The
increases on the average volume of freight moving
from twenty-one Georgia points to all other points
within the State would amount to approximately
eight hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars a
year, according to competent authorities. This es
timate is based upon a tonnage statement which
the carriers compiled at the request of the Railroad
Commission. If the Increase would amount to
nearly eight hundred and eighty-flve thousand dol
lars a year on traffic from twenty-one points, what
would it be for all the two thousand-odd points
within the State?
The bald, ugly fact is that the railroads,
under the pretense of complying with an Interstate
Commerce Commission order, are seeking to wring
from producers and shippers and consumers in
Georgia the most colossal and outrageous tax that
corporate greed ever dreamed of imposing upon
this Commonwealth. It is not their prime interest
to harmonize freight rates or remove inequalities
or conform to the spirit of the long and short haul
law. Their prime interest and ruling passion sim
ply follows the counsel of the crafty lago—“Put
money in thy purse.” Whatever their professions
may be. whatever their self-deception may be, the
fact is they are planning to destroy the State’s in
dustrial birthright for a huge mess of pottage on
which they themselves can fatten.
They admonish The Journal, with a piety wor
thy of Uriah Heep himself, that to circulate the
statement “that the railroads are proposing a bur
densome and unjust freight rate adjustment upon
Georgia shippers is calculated to Injure the State
and retard future development.” Fine criticism,
indeed, from the corporations whose palms are
itching to snatch millions in extortion from the
merchants and farmers and manufacturers of the
State! The railroads have developed a suspiciously
sudden tenderness for Georgia. They assume the
bearing of the sanctimonious pirate who went to
sea with the Ten Commandments. But none the
less they have an auspicious eye for the glittering
millions which they hope to fetch back from the
voyage.
The railroads are now confronted with a nation
wide strike. They contend that it would be incal
culably damaging to them to grant.the wage in
creases which their employes demand. For our
own part, we think that the rightful interests of
the roads in this, as in all matters, should be duly
safeguarded. But the damage which they claim
they would suffer from the proposed wage
increases is not to be compared to the damage
which Georgia would suffer from the freight rate
increases which they now propose. If the railroads
expect sympathy and justice from the public, surely
they should give a fairer measure of justice and
consideration to the public.
This rate case is soon to be heard by the Georgia
Railroad Commission. The hearing ought to be a
brief one: just long enough, indeed, for a statement
of the proposition; and that statement should suffice
to put an immediate and everlasting end to such a
stupendous plan of pillage as the railroads are seek
ing to carry out. If there is any power or any
patriotism in our government, it should be exerted
fully and forthwith to protect the people of Geor
gia from the unspeakable injury which threaten
them through the railroads’ incontinent greed.
Why not Hyphenated Hughes?
A Wise and Courageous Veto.
In vetoing the Primary Election bill Governor
Harris showed a wise and courageous patriotism
which should be, and will be, applauded through
out the State. In sustaining the Governor’s veto
by an overwhelming majority the House of Repre
sentatives vindicated his position and served the
cause of free and honest government.
Though this measure had some merits scattered
among its numerous ills, it was essentially per
nicious. Had it become a law, it would have been
possible for a candidate having only a minority of
the popular vote to be nominated over the ma
jority’s will. It would have been possible, more
over, for a handfull of voters in one county to nul
lify the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in
other counties and in the State at large. It would
have blotted out the great bulwark and tradition
of Democracy, that every citizen’s vote should
count the same.
Aside from these basic evils, the bill was pecu
liarly unfair at this time in that it proposed to
change established rules in the midst of a cam
paign which had been laid out by all the candi
dates in accordance with regulations prescribed by
the State Democratic Executive committee last
spring. On this point alone, even had it been other
wise praiseworthy, the bill deserved condemnation
as a piece of political chicanery.
The fairness and courage of the Governor’s
course is shown by the fact that he did not delay
his veto until the Legislature adjourned, as he
could have done, but exercised his veto power
promptly in order that the House might have the
opportunity of sustaining or reversing him. He
was sustained by a vote of eighty-one to forty-six.
Thus popular rights have been protected and the
principles of Democracy preserved.
Having been a lender most of his life. John
Bull now becomes a borrower.
The legislature figured that Georgians had
better learn the counties they have before culti
vating new ones.
An Epochal Measure
Os National Defense.
The final passage of the Navy bill, which will
make the United States second in sea power to
England only, is the most far-reaching stroke for
national preparedness and defense in the history
of American legislation. The main significance of
this measure does not lie in the vast sum it appro
priates. amounting to three hundred and fifteen
million, eight hundred thousand dollars, nor in the
brave array of new vessels, numbering one hundred
and fifty-seven, for which it provides. Its main
significance lies in the fact that it bespeaks a
quickened consciousness of the nation's needs and
a thoughtful, determined purpose to supply them.
Six months ago the United States was not only
unprepared for threatened emergencies but was
also befogged as to how and when it should take
up the task of preparation. Extremists were clam
oring, on the one hand, for rank militarism ana,
on the other hand, for silly pacification. Congress
was divided well-nigh hopelessly, it seemed —one
faction demanding exorbitant increases in the army
and fleet, and the other mulishly opposing any in
crease at all. Into this befuddled state of affairs,
came the President’s masterful influence. He ap
pealed to the country in behalf of an adequate pro
gram of defense, and the country’s response left no
doubt concerning its opinion and wish. He ap
pealed to Congress, on non-partisan grounds, and
gradually both groups of extremists saw the light.
It required a peculiar degree of patience and in
sight and tactful persistence to work the problem
through; but all these Mr. Wilson brought to bear,
and the result is that America is now ready to be
gin actual work on plans of defense which are equal
to her needs and worthy of her character.
The value of the Administration’s achievement
cannot be overgauged. The shortcomings and
perils which the army and navy bills will remove
were a menace to the country’s basic interests.
With a population of more than one hundred and
o’is and an area nearly as great as that
of all Europe, the United States had an armj 7
smaller than Portugal’s. With an unequaled ex
tent of coast line and an unequaled number of ex
posed harbors, the United States had a navy which
ranked only third or fourth among first-class Pow
ers. It was unprepared to defend its outlying pos
sessions in the Atlantic and Pacific or to fulfill Its
responsibilities under the Monroe doctrine or even
to safeguard its own shores against invasion.
These conditions had existed for years past.
Republican administrations successively failed to
provide adequate relief or even to take serious
thought of what ought to be done. Circumstances,
it is true, did not become crucial until the Euro
pean situation developed them. But the important
fact is that when they did become crucial, the Wil
son Administration proved equal to the occasion.
Mr. Hughes has striven vainly to make a campaign
issue of preparedness. Democratic statesmanship
has done incomparably more for the cause of na
tional defense in six short months than the Re
publican party ever proposed doing through all its
decades of government control.
Mr. Hughes prattles glibly of the value of
“deeds rather than words.” What deed of the Taft
administration or the Roosevelt administration or
any Republican administration within the last forty
years can compare in scope or value with the na
tional defense measures which the Wilson adminis
tration has produced? Under the three-year build
ing program which the Navy bill provides, the
United States will acquire a fleet that will be strong
enough to protect American interests and uphold
American principles, strong enough to impress any
hostile or envious Power that might be disposed to
Invade American rights, strong enough to make
American ideals of justice and peace felt and
respected the world around.
The man who gave his wife 80 cents a month
probably audited her accounts to boot.
No, those reports about Tybee being under
water seem to be entirely wrong.
“A Sectional Party. 1 '
Mr. Hughes is peeved because the chairman
ships of most of the important committees in Con
gress are held by Southern Democrats. This proves,
he declares, that the Democratic party is distinctly
a sectional party and, therefore, unfit for the broad
responsibilities of the nation.
It is true that Southern Democrats head most
of the important committees in the Senate and the
House. Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, is
chairman of the Finance committee, Senator
Smith, of Georgia, is chairman of the committee
on Education and Labor, Senator Martin, of Vir
ginia, is chairman of the Appropriations commit
tee. In the House, Mr. Kitchin, of North Carolina,
heads the Ways and Means committee; Mr. Spark
man, of Florida, the Rivfers and Harbors commit
tee; and so the record runs, the examples here
given being only a few among many.
But this in no wise indicates that the Democratic
party is sectional. Southern Democrats are at the
head of these committees, not because they are
from the South, but because, as the New York
World observes, “southern Democrats are usually
men of longer service than northern Democrats.”
“If the .Republicans were to gain control
of the House of Representatives by a majority
of five, every committee would have a Re
publican Chairman and practically every one
of the men so honored would be from a
district north of the Ohio river. In all the
vast region south of Mason and Dixon’s line
and south of lowa and Kansas the Repub
lican representation in the present House
does not exceed fifteen. There are one hun
dred Democratic Congressmen from the States
north of this territory, and like Mr. Fitz
gerald of Brooklyn, who is Chairman of the
great Committee on Appropriations, most of
them might have chairmanships if it were not
the habit of Northern constitutencies to
change their Representatives much oftener
than is the case at the South.”
The fact is the Democratic party is the one
great national party, because while it draws its
strength from both the North and the South, the
Republican party is virtually without a standing
in the South.
The allies are illustrating a new variety of
shell game.
The war is blamed for everything from hard
times to rain.
WASHINGTON, D. C., —. — —There is a woman
in Ohio who is earning her living by raising
dish cloths. Not long ago she invested 10
cents in some seed and started growing the luffa plant
which flourished easily and required but little attention.
The experiment was such a financial success that she
bought more seed, and now she has a small farm of
luffa, which is a thick, spongy gourd in great demand
for dish cloths and bath sponges. Last year, she sold
over a thousand to one garage company alone, to be
used in washing muddy automobiles.
• • •
The dish cloth is not the only use which can be
made of the luffa gourd. Cut into strips, It makes a
sort of lace straw used in the millinery business, and
is admirably adapted to the making of flower baskets
for which there is a large market, especially around
Easter. Yet, in spite of its utilitarian value and the
fact that it will grow in almost any part of the United
States, few persons are engaged In raising it, and this
woman probably never would have thought of it had
she not been in need of outdoor employment because
she had tuberculosis.
• • •
There are many outdoor occupations practicable for
the tuberculosis patient. If ic is only driving a ma
chine, running a street car, policing traffic or acting as
"bait” in a* sightseeing car, the tubercular is better off
in his own native surroundings than those afflicted,
who without sufficient funds, rush to Colorado, and
the southwest where many of them become dependent
on charity.
• • •
There Is no doubt but that the western climate has
tremendous health-giving qualities, but it cannot do
battle against the disease when accompanied by home
sickness, lack of employment and consequent lack of
proper food. Some enterprising persons in the incipient
stage, it is true, have found congenial occupation dur
ing their sojourn in the tubercular colonies. A number
of women, for example, have opened outdoor boarding
houses. One woman who went to Arizona four years
ago to be cured of tuberculosis, lived in a tent, prepar
ing her own food as best she could. As she grew
stronger she took a couple of boarders, serving the
meals in her own small habitat. Gradually the fame
of her cooking spread until now she has a large tent
accommodating forty boarders, with a small adjoining
tent containing the kitchen. Here she has two oil
stoves, one of which is equipped with an oven, and
employs a Mexican girl to help her with the cooking.
• • •
Work for the tubercular patient must of necessity
be light and of an intermittent nature, so that he may
discontinue it in case of hemorrhage or other incapac
ity. The majority of physicians advocate chicken-rais
ing as a practical occupation for the average Tubercular
patient, requiring little original investment and a mini
mum of physical exertion. TJie work of mixing the
daily food supply, setting the hens, gathering the eggs
and disposing of the young chickens is not apt to make
any great demands on the vitality The patient should
live in a shack or tent even more accessible to the open
air than is the shelter of his chickens, and eat many
fresh eggs.
• • •
Many poultry establishments, originally undertaken
by tuberculars as a means of bare existence, have be
come prosperous business ventures. In Tucson the tu
ber< ular poultry raisers have formed an association
which holds its meeting in the rooms of the chamber
of commerce, subscribes for numerous poultry journals
and gives advice to beginners. It has a monopoly on
the fresh egg and poultry industry of Tucson.
• • •
Flower raising, too, is an attractive and remunera
tive employment for the invalid whose cure is the open
air. In southern California the amateur flower garden
has becojne an institution among tubercular patients,
who sell flower decorations to the pooular restaurants.
In fact, the amateur garden is springing into existence
in all parts of the country, so that a new profession
has been created—that of the garden specialist. There
is a tremendous popular interest in gardening. The
women’s clubs have taken it up and are holding regular
classes in which they employ the specialist to lecture
and certain towns have established community classes
It is a mighty good rule to say of any man
behind his back only what you would say to his
face.
Most of the exaggerated abuse, the unjust
criticism, and the hostile denunciation in this
world is due to the fact that the victim is not
present.
The trouble with muckraking is that the muck
raker is talking to a third party, the public, while
the party of the second part, the accused, is out
of hearing.
I always have felt an uneasy feeling when read
ing diatribes against Rockefeller, Carnegie, et
al.; not that these gentlemen need my sympathy
and are not amply fortified by fortune against
the wi}lps of the envious, but that I instinctively
rebel on principle against hanging any man un
less he is among those present.
There may be times when you are convinced
that Jones needs his face slapped and Smith
ought to be kicked, and perhaps these punish
ments ought of right to be inflicted, but it is a
good plan to wait until Jones and Smith are there.
Preachers and lecturers say things of world
lings they would not think of saying to the face
of any given sinner. Newspapers sometimes abuse
their great power by attacking those who cannot
reply.
We would save a great deal of wrong in this
world if we would simply be just.
Germs and the Mind.
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
THERE are some diseases which are best treat
ed by mental instead of medical means.
There are others which mental treatment is
powerless to cure. Conspicuous among these are
diseases like typhoid fever and pneumonia, dis
eases caused by noxious germs.
But if such diseases cannot be cured by mental
means alone it does not follow that the mind has
nothing whatever to do with either their cure or
their prevention.
On the contrary, if a person is suffering from a
germ disease, his ability to recover from it is to a
considerable extent determined by the state of his
mind.
And similarly the likelihood of his contracting
the disease is affected by his mental attitude.
Os course, there must always be actual infection
for such a disease to develop. But let the infection
come to a person in good physical condition and
he has a chance of throwing it off without untoward
symptoms developing.
A striking proof of this is found in the case of
tuberculosis, one of the most serious of all germ
caused diseases.
From careful autopsy records it appears that
practically all adults are at some time infected by
the germ of tuberculosis. Or, in the words of a
competent medical authority, Dr. James J. Walsh:
“If there are not active lesions, then there are
always healed lesions of tuberculosis in the body of
almost every human being who has passed the age
of thirty."
Yet most of those thus attacked by this dread
disease go through life without ever suspecting that
they once suffered from it. The explanation is that
they had sufficient resistive vitality for their bodies
to take care of the tuberculosis germ.
Now, human vitality is always affected by the
state of the mind. Such mental states as feat,
worry, envy, jealousy, lower vitality. The opposite
states of hope, joy, confidence, etc., raise it.
Let the former type of mental states be habitual
with you and thereby increase your liability to be
severely affected by any germ disease you may con
tract.
But if you make joy, hope and confidence the
dominant moods of your life, your chances of keep
ing in good physical condition to resist the inroads
THE VEGETABLE DISHRAG
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIM
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for children when gardening is not included in the pub
lic school curriculum.
• • •
A Chicago school teacher, displaying symptoms of
tuberculosis, was advised by her physician to adopt
some form of outdoor employment. The teacher had
heard of the special training in gardening work car
ried on upon the large estates of England, and she
decided to spend a summer there, attending one of the
castle schools. Her profession learned, she returned
to this country and set up an establishment in a small
country place near Chicago. From her® she travels to
each suburb of the city, instructing classes in amateur
gardening and discussing the horticultural possibilities
of that particular community.
• • •
Farming of any kind is an ideal occupation for the
tubercular, the majority of the working routine being
confined to the open, and, if handled properly, is more
remunerative than most other outdoor professions.
• • •
When two sisters, who had been running a steno
graphic office in a middle western city, began to dis
play symptoms of tuberculosis, which was in their family,
they determined to invest their savings in a farm. But
they knew nothing about agriculture, so in order to
get experience they obtained work on a large farm on
the outskirts of the city, picking fruit, gathering vege
tables, raking hay, milking cows and attending to poul
try in return for their board. In a year they had
learned the business and were themselves able to buy
an up-to-date farm which is now making thetn pros
perous. One sister has specialized in stock breeding,
capturing many prizes for her excellent specimens of
cattle and pigs; while the other took a course in soil
analysis in an agricultural college and is no<w leading
her masculine neighbors with her heavy crops of wheat
and corn.
Another girl, who exhibited symptoms of the disease
while in Chicago, was unsuccessful in her endeavors to
find outdoor employment on a farm, but finally secured
a secretarial position on a large stock farm in New
England. Here she made it a point to study the busi
ness, learning all the latest scientific principles of cat
tle raising and agriculture. At the end of two years
she invested her earnings in a thirty-acre farm and
started raising cattle, poultry and garden truck. The
venture has been successful, both in monetary receipts
and the fact that the young woman is now enjoying
the robust health which comes from life in the open.
• * •
It is evident from this that there are many outdoor
pursuits open to the tubercular patient as a means of
self-support. Running a delivery truck or wagon and
taking house-to-house orders for retail concerns, keep
men in the open air, as does also professional guiding.
At Gettysburg there are numerous men with conspicu
ous coughs showing tourists over the battle field. They
ride on the outer step of the touring cars and motor
vehicles, and the only physical exertion entailed is an
hour’s constant talking. Tree surgery and forestry
also provide outdoor work, although these require a
certain amount of scientific training.
• • •
With various opportunities for outdoor employment
at home, it seems rather impractical for men and wom
in delicate health to spend their small earnings in
crossing the continent if they have*no clear idea what
they are going to do when they get there Besides, if
actually nave not got the disease, but merely
a tendency to be susceptible to it, the worst thing they
can do is to seek a place where an unusually {ine cli
mate has attracted great numbers of tuberculosis pa
tients, and thereby thousands of germs. Physicians
more and more are advocating fresh air and proper
diet in the cure of tuberculosis, irrespective of climate.
And we would avoid a deal of injustice if we
would keep always in mind that every man may
have some justification for his acts, and ought to
be allowed to state it before he is*condemned.
Shajjp and bitter words, flavored with scandal,
have a terrific carrying quality. They are easily
remembered. They are -willingly repeated. Escaped
from your lips or pen they fly to the ends of the
earth. You cannot control them any more than
you can recapture the spent stenches of a glue
factory. So be careful how you utter them.
Besides, the fatal facility for saying hateful
things grows on one. The curser is always in
teresting, no matter how we loathe him. He gets
a ready audience. And it is not long until he is
the best hated man in the community.
When you are prompted to say anything un
pleasant about anybody, “stop, look, listen!" Ask
yourself if it is exactly the thing you would want
to say to his face.
You might ask yourself also if it is any of
your business. And if you are the proper judge
of his actions. Also if you really understand
what you condemn, and if you know all about the
circumstances.
It costs nothing to hold your tongue. And
sometimes it is the most excellent thing you can
do.
If you must say it, say it to his face.
(Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane.)
of disease are vastly increased.
Remember this. In particular, remember it when
any epidemic js raging.
Don’t give way to panic. Don’t let your mind
be filled with the idea that you are certain to be
infected., Keep cool, keep confident, keep smiling.
Take all necessary physical precautions against
Infection. But also take the Important mental pre
caution of remaining serene and courageous.
And if, after all, you actually are infected,
and the results of the infection becomo painfully
evident, make it a point still to keep your courage
up.
This may mean to you all the difference between
a rapid recovery and a prolonged, perhaps fatal,
illness.
(Copyright, 1916, by the Associated Newspapers.)
Quips and Quiddities
Loud crashed the thunder, but there was no light
ning. With each peal little Mrs. Simpson shivered
wildly.
"Oh Henry,” she walled, after one particularly noisy
outburst', "I am so frightened! Oh, I am so fright
ened!”
“Silly little girl!” said hubby, in the yo.fce of a
great, strong man who is not afraM of any -
"Don’t you know that thunder never hurts anyone?”
“No, it's you who are wrong!” retorted Mrs. Simp
son positively. "Haven’t you ever heard of people
being thunderstruck?”
• • •
A teacher in a big elementary school had given a
lesson in an infants' class of the Ten Commandments.
In order to test their memories, she asked:
“Can any little child give me a Commandment with
only four words in it?"
A hand was raised immediately.
“You may answer, John," said the teacher.
“Keep off the grass,” was the reply.
* • •
She was from Boston; he from Oklahoma. “You
have traveled a great deal in the west, have you not.
Miss Bacon?”
"Oh, yes, indeed—in California and Arizona and even
in New Mexico.”
“And did you ever see the Cherokee strip?"
There was a painful silence, but finally she looked
over her glasses at him and said: "Sir, I deem your
question exceedingly rude."