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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL r 4TWTTA, QA„ 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. ntered at the Atlanta Poatorflce as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMKS R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve months -W® Six months _....4*c Three months *** The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tues- day and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong depart ments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at eyery postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Writs R. R- BRAD LEI. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kimbrough. Chas H. Woodliff and L. J. Farris. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above-named traveling representatives. J NOTION TO SVmBCRXNBRS. The label aaed for addreenus your paper shows the time jeer subscript ion expire*. By reurning at least two weeks be fixe the date on ttus label, you iSsiire regular service. la oniering paper changed, Le sure to mention your old, a* well as your new address, if on a route, please give the route We cannot enter subscriptions to begin hack numbers. Remittance should tr sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all order* and notices for this Department to THE SRMI WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga. 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.