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Wilson’s -Victory.
From the depths of gloom at the tenor of the
early returns the Democrats of the nation have
now after two days and three nights of harrowing
dotfbt been raised on a surge of joy to acclaim the
triumph of Wood row Wilson and his principles. The
focal figure of many crises, he has emerged from
another crisis, winner—still the man of destiny
with the keeping of the nation entrusted again to
his hands. . . , »
In a world storm he stood unbowed —stood for
Right between man and man and between nations
and nations. Amid the storm of unprecedented
abuse at home and the vindictive attacks of his
enemies, capitalized by great wealth, he stood un
bowed, and serene he remains now in his triumph,
eager only, as he htmeelf has heretofore said, to
be busy again about the nation s business.
This country has been given the mandate of peace
peace with honor—with all readiness to fight,
to be sure, but only for defense, only for humanity.
The president’s forward legislation bears also the
seal of the nation’s approval and the command,
forward yet again, has been uttered.
The influence of wealthy interests in the East,
strong still in their ancient entrenchments, with the
European war seemingly too near to be viewed
with sanity, brought that section to the support of
Hughes, but in the South and West, in the wide
spaces where there is room and quietude for calm
thinking, the president found his victory, found
there kinship with him in cool thought, measured
tn terms of right. There Hyphenism had no stand
ing. There the balance wheel of the nation swung,
righted the ship of state, and sent it on its course
already so plainly charted.
A wonderful victory it is for Wilson and his
partv, a portentous one for the nation. Let it be
acclaimed with resounding joy, rolling throughout
the land, from ocean to ocean, and boundary to
boundary.
Teddy's Left-Handed Rightness.
in the Democratic storm that held back long
but finally broke upon the country Thursday night
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt presents a weird and
nullified sort of appearance. The breather-of-fire
on others has been burnt with his own flames.
After charging through the country and with his
usual modesty claiming to be the only tYue de
fender of national honor, and hurling thunder
bolts of abuse at Wilson, he brought up at Oyster
Bay to observe the result of his labors. Someone
told the Colonel prematurely—amid a world just
then running wild with prematureness—that Mr.
Hughes was elected. Then the red-blooded fighter
burned loose. You know it’s beneath the dignity
of your red-blooded buster of noses and nations to
await developments. To be deliberate is to be
Yellow. Up and at 'em is his motto. So forth
with be went into action. He said:
"I am doubly thankful as an American for
the election of Mr. Hughes. It is a vindication
of our national honor. I wish to express my
profound gratitude as an American proud of
his country that the American people have re
pudiated the man who coined the phrase about
his country that it is 'too proud to fight,' and
whose administration has done so much to re
lax the fiber of the American conscience and
to dull the sense oU honorable obligations in
American people.
"Because of some charges that have been
made I wish to state now that' I will not under
any circumstances make any recommendation
to Mr. Hughes with reference to appoint
ments or to his legislative policy.**.
Here we find the Colonel exhibiting an uncanny
sort of left-handed rightness. The country’s honor
•has indeed been vindicated—but not by the Col
onel, nor have he and his interp’-etation of honor
been called Into council at' all. In fact, he and his
brand of honor have been repudiated outright, and
the American people ought tb be doubly thankful.
Surely. Colonel, you will remember the section
of the country that gave you that vim of yours that
overran the world and finding It too small discov
ered new rivers to float upon! Surely, Colonel,
you remember the section of the country that"
taught you how to fight! Why, Colonel, it was
the West. It was the West whence you drew
your rough-riding fighters who did valiant service
in the Spanish-American war and with whom quite
recently you were preparing to demolish Mexico.
And you should now go back to the West and
let it teach you what to fight about and when. At
present you are at alarming variance with your
old teacher.
You have promised, too, not to give Mr. Hughes
any advice about his appointments and his legisla
tive measures. You broke the solemn covenant
• you made with the Progressive party and you
might break this promise also, but really it doesn’t
matter a great deal, for if Mr. Hughes had your
advice he could use it to practically no advantage.
A weird figure, indeed, is now the once Terrible
Teddy. He may burst forth now and then, but he is
more likely to become merely an interesting relic
of a by-gone lime—a time when bronco-busting
had ceßsed to be anything uncommon on the plains
but had become a popular novellj in politics and
statesmanship.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., I UESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1916.
Back to Business.
After the week of nerve-wearing suspense occa
sioned by the delayed election result and the subse
quent jubilation over Wilson's victory, one begins
the work of the week with the feeling that now it
is past, it is time to return to accustomed tasks.
Thankful for the result of the election and the op
portunity of rejoicing occasioned thereby/one goes
back to old duties with new zest. Back to business
is the general feeling today.
The whirr of the campaign is stilled, its re
criminations have ceased, and the country may be
well spared the continuance of many of the things
that have been said. It was not' an edifying cam
paign in many respects. The harm of certain phases
of it and the prospect of early relief from them was
fully expressed by President Wilson in his speech
to the farmers at Shadow Lawn on October 21 when
he said:
•’I am glad that the campaign is nearly
over. lamina hurry to get down to business
again. There is a great deal of irresponsible
talk being indulged in. Men are saying lots of
things that they know perfectly well they can
not make good on and it disturbs the national
counsel. Op the seventh of November we will
call time and say to each other, ‘Now that the
talk is over and all the things have been said
that will be regretted, let us sober up. Let's
stop this indulgence in loose talk and really
get down to solemn business, for it is a very
solemn business, of trying to comprehend our
general attitude with regard to the nation at
large.”
And this feeling of the president even before the
election is now no doubt the feeling of every good
American citizen regardless of party. We ve had
enough of talk particularly of certain kinds and
now for business. The rash charges and the
malevolent abuse leveled at the president did him
no harm. On the contrary it undoubtedly re
acted in his favor. Commenting upon this feature
of the campaign, the Springfield Republican says:
"He (the president) was made the central
point of a terrific assault by the opposition led
by Messrs Hughes and Roosevelt'. Not only
were his public acts and policies assailed with
out the least mercy or charity; even his per
sonal character was held up to ridicule and
scorn. All the hates and furies growing out
of the European war and the Mexican revolu
tion seemed to be fused in an effort to destroy
him. Seldom has an insane emotionalism in
politics been given freer play than in the cam
paign to beat Wilson. There will now be gen
eral agreement that the personal disparage
ment, so vindictive and brutal in many of it’s
manifestations, was excessive and that it
caused a revulson of feeling among the Amer
ican people.”
That the abuse of Wilson outdid itself would
have been revealed even though the president had
been defeated, but his triumph makes this shine
unmistakably.’ Thankful indeed may the American
people be that they are to be spared any more of
this torrent of unfounded vituperation.
The cry therefore of “Back to business has
a welcome sound. Let the rejoicing continue, to
be sure. Let there be such big celebrations as may
be conveniently arranged, but under it all let there
be the determination to get down to serious busi
ness as the president has said. Let us here in
Georgia address ourselves once more to developing
our great resources —of advancing the progress of
our industries, our commerce and our agriculture,
so that we may make the best use of the peace and
prosperity that President Wilson and his policies
have brought us.
Vance McCormick.
A new figure of first magnitude has dawned
upon national politics. He is Vance McCormick,
of Harrisburg, Pa., chairman of the National Dem
ocratic committee, the man under whose manage
ment the campaign was conducted that returned
Woodrow Wilson to the White House.
Even before the campaign closed, many fea
tures of the work being done under McCormick’s
direction were exciting the admiration of poli
ticians of both parties, and now that it is closed
the man and his accomplishments and his methods
of accomplishment are thrown into high light.
That he was complete master of the situation
throughout was never more strikingly illustrated
than when early on Tuesday night he sent word to
Democrats everywhere to sit tight. This was just
at the time when the returns from New York and
the Eastern States showed that they had gone
overwhelmingly for Hughes. He told his party
followers not to be disturbed by these returns, and
recalled to them the cases in former presidential
elections when an over-night change had served to
elect the low candidate. This was his message
about 7:30 or 8 o’clock Tuesday night and at’ 3
o’clock Wednesday morning he issued the follow
ing: “We’ve got ’em. Wilson’s vote is rolling up
every minute. Wilson will have close to three hun
dred votes in the electoral college.” And threafter
he held unwaveringly to his claim that Wilson
would carry California and enough of the other
doubtful states to have a substantial majority of
electoral votes.
When it took courage to hold firm, he had it.
His fight throughout was as brilliant a one as has
ever been known in national campaigns, and he
won. He is now receiving the merited plaudits of
his success. In his State and section he has been
known before, but now he is known to the nation
—as a game fighter and a fair one and a winner.
The Journal congratulates him on the really great
service he has performed fort his party and his
country.
Market Outlets for Farm Products
It is gratifying to note the success and progress
of the Georgia Fruit Exchange. This organization
at its annual meeting last week declared a hand
some dividend and its general financial showing
was disclosed to be the best in its history.
But the feature of the organization's meeting
which bears the greatest public interest and which
portends much /or the advancement of agriculture
in this state along diversified lines was its decision
not to confine its marketing activities to peaches
and some cantaloupes, but to make a distinct de
parture by offering its services and facilities to the.
general farmer to assist him in marketing all his
perishable fruit and vegetables.
The value of the new service lies in the fact that
it helps the farmer who would quit’ the one-crop
system and raise more food products to solve the
great problem of finding a market for such prod-.
ucts. Cotton, always the foremost money crop of
the South, has long had it’s market outlet. The
world’s eagerness for this staple makes all the
machinery of selling easy and thoroughly under
stood even by the humblest grower. But when the
farmer branches out into other crops, though his
yield may be abundant' and of the finest quality,
nevertheless his labors for the season may all go
to naught because he does not know when, where
nor how to dispose of bis products when they have
been harvested.
The question of more food products and a profit
able market for them go hand in hand. The for
mer can not exist' without the latter. Hence if
the farmer is aroused to the importance of devoting
his acres to diversification he must be spared the
disappointment of having his perishable products
go to ruin for lack of someone to buy them.
The new undertaking of the exchange grew out
of the farmers’ meetings, held under the auspices
of the state department of entomology. President
W. B. Hunter, of the Georgia Fruit Exchange, at
tended one of these meetings and saw that one of
the things that stood most boldly in the way of a
change from the all-cotton system to a more varied
program of farming was a suitable outlet for the
produce raised under the latter. He then told the
meeting of the success of the exchange in handling
Georgia’s peach crop and offered the facilities of his
organization for the marketing of all perishable
farm products. Mr. Hunter thereafter attended
many of the farmers' meetings and continued his
explanation and his offer of the exchange’s market
ing service. Says he in commenting upon his trip:
“The meetings taxed the capacity of every
courthouse in which they were held. The au
diences were made up of the best business men,
the heaviest land owners, the small farmer and
the negro operator. In the aggregate these
meetings brought out more than 25,000 per
sons. To the business interests of these com
munities I have advocated the establishment of
local markets which might become affiliated
with the Georgia Fruit Exchange for the mar
keting of carloads. Everywhere the plan was
met with enthusiasm/’
Instances have been known where the farmers
of large communities embarked extensively into
th raising of cantaloupes in the South. The sea
sons were propitious. The harvest was abundant
and yet the melons rotted in the field because the
growers were without collective marketing knowl
edge. No definite advanced arrangement had been
made for their sale and it was only possible to get
the crop to an already glutted market at' such
prices as would not even pay for harvesting and
packing. Hence those farmers turned away with
disgust at diversified farming and all the preach
ments they had ever heard on the subject and went
back into the cultivation of cotton more large
ly than ever. Similar Instances are also on record
with regard to many other kinds of farm produce.
Expert marketing is thus seen to be a necessity
for the farmer who would respond to the call to
diversify. It is gratifying to note coming to his as
sistance such effective aid as that offered by rhe
Georgia Fruit Exchange.
Editorial Echoes.
There seems to be no doubt of the triumph of
the Liberal Party at the polls in Cuba and the
election of Dr. Alfredo Zayas to the presidency.
The possibility of the election of a Conservative
president of the young republic was never seripusly
thought of until men of all parties, four years
ago, joined In the support of Mario Menocal. He
has served his country faithfully, has built up its
finances, and instituted many reforms, but he has
been at odds with the legislative majority and has
been unable to accomplish all that he set out to do.
His own pre-election utterances have fore-shadow
ed his defeat, and he will take it philosophically.
He has shown his countrymen that a Cuban can be
president' for four years without truckling to the
corrupt political elements or involving himself in
partisan squabbles. That he will be called upon
to take the helm again in the future is altogether
likely.
The successful candidate is a man of good per
sonal repute, with ample public experience. Be
hind him, however, looms the portentous person
ality of Jose Miguel Gomez. He led in person the
parade in honor of the victory of Zayas in Havana.
Unless Zayas wills otherwise, he will be a dom
inating influence in the new administration. Cuba
will suffer if Gomez is restored to power. When
he was president he conducted public affairs for
private gain. Much will depend, therefore, on the
ability of Zayas to make himself president in fact
as well as In name. The votes of a majority of the
Cuban people, not the craft of Gomez, hr.ve elected
him. He has the opportunity to carry on the re
forms Menocal has initiated, to administer the na
tion’s affairs with economy and wisdom. If Gomez
is to name his cabinet and to be the power behind
the throne, Cuba will have new troubles to con
tend with in the next four years.—New York Times.
Let us hope that in congress the female of the
species will be more effective than the male.
Our President
Who is it always has the nerve
And from his duty will not swerve
Who has the grandest folks to serve?
Our President.
Who is it we now have to thank
Amongst our country’s file and rank
That we’re not walking pontoon plank.
Our President.
Wh» is the greatest man alive
And ever ready there to strive
The hardest man on earth to drive?
Our President.
Who is it don’t know how to-fall.
Who kneels to none, but says to all,
Be ready should the bugle call?
Our President.
Who is it we should love the best.
Who never has failed in the test.
Who has not time at all to rest?
Our President.
Who is the man with poise and grace.
Who balked the plot of a "hyphen” race
And saved our country from disgrace?
Our President.
Who blasted the hopes—Republican—
This mighty, mighty, Wilson man—
Who’s destined to rule this Great Old Land?
Our President.
So Republicans, allay your fears.
For without a doubt it now appears
That Woodrow's with you four more years.
Our President.
Atlanta, Ga. LESLIE M. DAVIES.
y AM a man,” wrote Terence, “and nothing hu
man is alien to me.”
Homo sum. et nihil humanum a me
alienum unto.
Let me try to realize how much it means to be
human, how deep must be my understanding, how
universal my sympathies, how keen my apprecia
tion, how careful my judgment, how unfailing my
love!
I am a man. 1 cannot despise any human
creature because of the accident of his birth or
condition; no, nor the consequences of his deeds.
If he is Chinese, with almond eyes and strange
speech and peculiar ways, still he is human.
If he is a Negro, with different skin and hair
from mine, yet he is my brother.
If he is Mahometan, Hindu, Fiji, Hawaiian,
Malay, he has the same wants, hopes, fears, dreams,
and desires that I have.
*“East is East, and West is West,” but the dis
tinction is superficial; the same human passions
and thoughts run beneath.
If he is criminal, a drunkard, profane speech,
rude manners, unclean habit, his heart still beats
as mine, he has my fevers, colds, pains, hungers.
If he is rich and cold, if he is high and proud,
if he is upon a throne, if he is a genius, if he is
famous, he is still of my kind, for he gets tired
and thirsty, he laughs and weeps, he, too is a man.
I am a man. and nothing human is alien to me.
lam of all religions. I bow toward Mecca with
the Turkman, and toward Jerusalem with the Jew;
I revere Buddha, Confucius, and Lao-Tse with the
Oriental, and Jesus with the Christian.
BREAKING THE NEW YORK GANGS. 111. —The Junior Police.
BY XRXDUIC J. RASKIN
NEW YORK, Nov. s.—The city gangster is a crim
inal. The old gangster usually begins as a
young gangster. But the young gangster is not
usually or necessarily a criminal, simply a healthy
boy following a healthy boyish instinct. The city en
vironment takes the boys’ natural tendency to band
together in gangs and turns It into a criminal tendency
because there is no way for the boys gang to work
off its energy in a healthy way. In the country the
gang becomes a tribe of Apaches or a crew of pirates
and at worst it raids an apple orchard and stirs up
mild hostility in a farmer who knows all its fathers.
In the city it gets tangled up with the police.
• • •
In New York there is little room and still less in
the way of legitimate adventure. The gang usually
makes its headquarters in a deserted cellar, and travels
over the housetops armed with "beanies,” which are
used on the hapless pedestrian below. The first crime
is usually a raid on a push cart, which is upset so
that the young pirates can bag some of the spilled
goods and make off before a policeman arrives on the
scene. Stealing junk from deserted and unfinished
houses is another favorite device for replenishing the
tribal coffers. Furthermore, the gang usually puts
the boy In touch with cigarettes, beer and often
cocaine. He is then ripe for the Fagin life. If he is
at all weak or ductile, some criminal gets hold of him
and teaches him the pickpocket’s art. He is now an
undergraduate gangster and on the way to greater
crimes.
• • •
The extent of this child crime in New York may
be gauged from the fact that there are forty juvenile
cases a day in the police courts. The juvenile of
fender may go to any one of a number of institutions,
and all of them are in some degree incubators of
crime.
• • •
Police Commissioner Woods has put into practice
the idea that the best way of preventing juvenile
crime is not to break up the boy gangs, but to turn
the gang Instinct into legitimate channels, and make
the boys friendly to the police.
• • •
Since time immemorial, the policeman has been the
natural enemy of the boy gang. Being chased by the
cop is no mean thrill, and in Itself an incentive to mis
chief. Now police sergeants in all the precincts are
telling the boys that the cop is not their enemy but
their best friend who will give them advice and help
them out in case of trouble. The same creed is being
preached in the reformatories and other juvenile insti
tutions. It is startlingly unique, but it takes'.
• • •
Above all the boys are encouraged to organize into
clubs, and especially tq join the “Junior Police.’’ Cap
tain John Sweeny of the fifteenth precinct was the
founder of this popular and growing order. The boys
of each precinct are organized into a complete police
force, including all grades. Weekly drills are held,
when' they are put through the setting up exercises
and instructed in their police duties. The most im
portant of these are the prevention of street accidents
by stopping other boys from "hopping” rides, roller
skating on the streets, and stealing "tows” from pass
ing automobiles: the preaching of the sanitary code in
their homes; and the putting out of bonfires which
cost the city thousands of dollars every year in burned
asphalt.
After the boys are organized an effort is made to
get the parents interested. Benefits are held and the
proceeds used to buy the boys regular police uniforms.
Needless to say. when the organization reaches the
uniform stage, its stock goes up by bounds. There
are already about 2.500 boys enrolled in the Junior
Police.
• • •
Os course the greatest value of this boy police force
is that it puts the members on their mettle, gives
them a new interest in life and keeps them out of
mischief. But it is accomplished more than that.
Many of the junior policemen come from alien homes,
and bring to their families new ideas of citizenship,
sanitation, and other good things. Then, too, some
real police work has been done by the boys. One of
them caused the arrest of three men who were trying
to break into a jewelry store. He appeared in police
court against them and gave his testimony in a
straightforward and convincing manner. When three
members of one of the junior squads were arrested by
the regular police for burglary, a howl of indigna
tion went up from the rest of the force. They were
genuinely scandalized.
• • • •
Most touching was the case of Sammy Fuchs,
twelve years old. He found an old thirty-two caliber
revolver with a cylinder, and launched upon a life of
crime. The gun looked perfectly good to little East
Slders and Sammy reaped a rich harvest of marbles,
tops and all day suckers by highway robbery. But
one day this ghetto Robin Hood was standing on a
corner, meditating his next depredation when he felt
a hand laid upon each shoulder. Turning he was
confronted by Captain Braurstein, twelve, and Lieu
tenant Margolis, of the local junior police.
"You’re pinched, said Captain Braurstein sternly.
"Boys, I guess you’ve got me,” said the highway
man, as he handed over his gun. "Let me go this
time and I’ll promise to turn straight!" It is a mat
ter of record that Sammy reformed.
• • •
What a man may have to endure in the course of
his rounds, he found a large, stout Irish womaq mix*
ing garbage with ashes,‘which is most unsanitary and
against police regulations. Inspector Bauerstein
showed her how the thing ought to be done, and
warned her not to mix aches and garbage any more>
The next day he came around and found her doing it
again. It was the second offence. Inspector Bauer
stein spoke to the woman somewhat sharply. And
the woman took Inspector Bauerstein across her knee
and spanked him, uniform and all.
• • •
Another phase of the police work that is expected
to have, an important part in the prevention of juve
nile crime is the psychopathic laboratory. This de
partment was only recently organize*, and was threat
ened with early extinction when the city refused to
continue its appropriation. Commissioner .. oods. how
ever, succeeded in raising twelve thousand dollars
among persons Interested in the work, so that it now
goes forward as a private philanthropy, but a part
of the city’s police system.
• • •
In this laboratory, all of the persons brought in
by the police dragnet are examined by trained sclen-
HOMO SUM
BY DR. FRANK CRAMZ-
I am of all skepticisms; I doubt with the agnos
tic, the infidel, the materialist, the stoic.
I am of all parties, Republican, Democratic, Pro
gressive, Prohibition, Socialist, left, right, center,
red, and blue.
I am of all nations: I am German, English,
French, Italian, Russian. Swiss—l am Slav and
Teuton, Celt and Saxon, Negroid and Caucasian.
I am of all schools of art, of medicine, of letters.
I cannot be tabulated, located, pigeonholed. For I
am a man and nothing human is alien to me.
I stand and fight beside the hero, I run away
with the coward; I sit with the judge on the
bench and cower with the rfbcused in the dock,
and argue with the lawyer at the bar.
I understand the white fervor of the nun, and
the red recklessness of the prostitute; I save with
the thrifty and squander with the profligate.
The prodigal son appeals to me; so does his
elder brother.
I understand the sincere, and also the hypocrite.
All goodness is potential in me, and all badness.
Is there any man who rbjoices in the sun, who
feels the rain in his face, who is proud of success,
who is mortified at failure, whose thoughts fly as
angels, but is yet chained to “the body of this
death,” who lusts for food, praise, money, woman,
power, or conquest, who follows folly or philosophy,
who conforms, who rebels, who hates, loves, sins,
repents, strives, quits, cries laughs, wakes, and
sleeps—go tell him he is my brother, his clay is as
mine, and also like mine is the fire that' runs
through it.
Homo sum, et nihil humanum a me alienum
puto.
(Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane.)
tists with a view to discovering the defectives, in
cluding the feeble-minded, the insane, and other irre
sponsible types. Similar work is going forward on a
large scale in the municipal court of Chicago. Here
in New York the practice is to take their thumb-prints
and recommend them to the care of various institu
tions.
• • •
A study of police records shows, in the opinion of
Commissioner Woods, that many of the most horrible
crimes are traceable to defectives. To discover these
when young, cure them if possible, and if not, isolate
them, is an important step in crime prevention.
Those Whom Luck Loves
BY. H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
LUCK.” says L. Charley, “is like her sister. For
tune. She smiles on the daring, but loves,
above all, the wise, and the prudent, and
takes up her home with them most willingly.
“From time to time she permits herself to wan
der and . crosses the threshold of the fool or good
for-nothing. But she has hardly alighted before she
takes sudden flight, put to rout by the vices she
most abhors.”
Elsewhere he observes:
“It is not always possible to realize what an
amount of will power, prudence and thrift it costs
people to have earned the name of lucky.”
In these sentences, friend, there is food for most
serious thought. ,
You have been bemoaning your own bad luck,
you have been envying the good luck of your neigh
bor. Pause now and compare your affairs with
his. as regards not present condition but past his
tory.
If you do this honestly you are sure to make a
few discoveries that will surprise you. And they
will be discoveries causing you some chagrin.
You will find that in the past when you were
mainly concerned with “having a good time” and
“getting by easily” your neighbor was working
hard to fit himself for every opportunity for ad
vancement.
He was not wasting his energy in foolish or
vicious amusements. He did not weaken his body
and deaden his mind by nerve exhausting habits.
Nor did he sit with his eye on the clock and his
mind far from his desk, counter or work bench.
He had, it is true, a great variety of interests. But
most of all he was interested in the things con
nected with his business.
He studied that business as an ambitious
schoolboy studies his lessons. He mastered its de
tails. He pondered Its possibilities.
He made himself a man who could be trusted.
And he made himself a man who knew.
Naturally, he attracted the attention of those
for whom he worked. Naturally, it was of him
they thought when it was a question of showing
preferment. ,
Promotion after promotion was given to him.
More and more pay came his way. And now, being
in a position to invest money, he applied to his
investment* the same ardent, patient thoroughness
he had to his work.
He did not go into enterprises blindly. Me
kept his eyes and ears open, he thought hard, he
sought reliable sources of information. Fortified
by knowledge he bought and sold, always to his
profit. t
Yes, he was lucky. He was always lucky. And
he was lucky because he deserved luck.
Turn to your own history. Yoii may never
have dissipated. But have you been a keen, eager.
Intensely Interested worker?
I’ll warrant you have worked not because you
wanted to work, but because the iron hand of ne
cessity forced you to work. You may have been
enthusiastic about some things. You have not
been enthusiastic about your work.
But it is not too late. You can change your
luck if you will.
You can change it by taking a new, a keener
Interest in your life occupation. Force yourself,
not to work hard, but to want to work hard.
Then you will find it easy to work hard, to
work harder than you have ever done before. You
will find more joy In life. And you will find more
luck of the sort you now envy in your neighbor.
All this is guaranteed to you by the history of
every really lucky man.
(Copyright, 1916, by the Associated Newspapers.)
The Searchlight *
MOTION PICTURES IMPROVE SURGERT.
Many industries have been brought up to a higher
efficiency by motion pictures, which permit a close
study of each movement upon the part of the worker.
In no work is this more desirable than in surgery,
where human life frequently rests entirely upon the
efficiency of the surgeon. Studies have already been
made in a number of hospitals in the United States and
Canada. As a result, tt will soon be possible for a
surgeon having an unusual or difficult surgical opera
tion on hand to secure a film showing every motion
made by an expert in some other hospital in the per
formance of the same operation. Surgical methods
and instruments differ widely, and some of the members
of the American Medical association see in the movies
a valuable aid towards the standardization of both.
• • •
BARN RAISING BY MACHINERY.
Partners are now utilizing the same methods la
barn building that city contractors use in their con
struction work. Derricks or gin poles are used to raise
the heavy materials and swing them into place. The
gin pole is a sort of mast with long arms or beams
provided with pulleys and ropes. An Indiana farmer
recently raised a barn 100 feet wide and 150 feet long
by this aparatus in a single afternoon. A few of his
neighbors were called to assist, but the machinery
adjusted all the large beams and outlined the form of
the hip roof. His gin mast was operated by the com
bined use of his farm tractor and his Ford car.
The production of beet sugar breaks all rec
ords, and yet the consumer pays just the same.
