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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATLAJTTA. GA_ 5 NORTH TOBBTTH ST-
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Helpful Co-operation.
Between Town and Country.
The Dawson News touches a subject of impor
tance to the entire State as well as to ita own com
munity when it urges a doser eo-operation of
urban and rural interests. Time was when the af
fairs of business men and farmers were regarded
‘ as if they were wholly unrelated if not antagonis
tic, except in rather a narrow province of buying
and selling. The idea of town folk and country
folk getting together on plans of common interest
and working together for the whole country s well
being was once as strange as now it is familiar.
The forward-looking merchant or banker realizes
today that the conquest of the boll weevil, the pro
duction of foodstuffs, the building and maintenance
of good roads and all else that promotes farm pros
perity are no less important to the city than to the
country. As for the farmer, the Dawson News
truly obaerves.
"He wants a market for what he produces,
conducted along safe and substantial lines; he
wants proper attention given to the roads over
which he must travel; he wants co-operation in
the educational system, he wants a place to
hitch his horse or park bis car when he comes
to town. These things are being looked after
by the modern town, and it is bringing about
a co-operatkm that will result in a finer spirit
between the town and the country.**
Toward this deeply desirable end. much is be
ing done by broad-minded boards of trade and
chambers of commerce. Such institutions can ren
der no sounder service than by working for the de
velopment of the rural territory around the towns'
Sr ‘cities they represent. Indeed, the surest way
to build up a city is to conserve and develop its
outlying farm resources. Tins has always been the
policy of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, which
has planned and worked for rural interests, not
..only in Fulton county and the Fifth district, but
also in the State as a whole. The Atlanta Cham
ber did pioneer work in the campaign for more
abundant production of food crops and food ani
mals and also in the campaign of preparedness
against the boll weevil. Other organizations of
this kind are reaching out upon similar lines in a
number of Georgia towns
Especially useful tn fostering closer relations
between town and country has been the work of
the State Chamber of Commerce. For nearly three
yean the State Chamber has conducted an earnest
and effectual movement for the development of
snarket facilities for (keorgia-rafsed food products,
and in' Orts connection it has appealed constantly
■to the merchant and the farmer to get into closer
relations, not merely for purposes of individual
profit, but also for mutual helpfulness. Tbe same
Etne of endeavor has been taken up by civic and
commercial bodies in various parts of the State
and also by county and district associations of farm
ers. The result is that a number of towns have es
tablished markets for the surplus meat and grain
and vegetables produced in tbe but rounding ooun
try and also have provided adequate banking facil
ities for the special aid of farmers who wish to pro
det* such staples. *
In matters of health and education and social
welfare, no leas than tn matters of business, the in
terests of town and country are essentially one. In
sanitary conditions in the remotest rural district
axe a potential menace to a city through contami
nation of milk or wafer supplies. Good schools
throughout a county are of great material- and
moral value to urban as wefl as rural interests.
Furthermore, with the development of good roads,
automobiles and interurban trolleys, more city
workers than ever before are making their homes
in the country, and at the same time residents of
the country are being brought tn closer touch with
the etty. Thus the interests of tbe two are becom
ing more and more interdependent and are calling
for a larger measure at operation
In Danger of National Disgrace.
There is no ground of patriotic reason on which
Congress can hesitate to grant the President full
warrant and ample means to arm American mer
chant vessels for defense and to employ "any other
instrumentalities or methods that may be necessary
to protect our ships and our people in their legiti
mate and peaceful pursuits on the seas.'* It cannot
be that anyone in Congress fears the President
would use this power precipitately. The drift of
all criticism of his handling of the submarine issue
• is that he has been excessively cautious and long
suffering. It was not until uennan injuries and In
i suits to the United States became fairly overwhelm
ing that he severed diplomatic relations with Ber
; lin. It was not until Germany's thredt to destroy
American ships and American lives in ruthless
U-boat warfare became unmistakably serious that
he appealed to Congress: and in that appeal he
asked for the minimum of authority needful to
safeguard and uphold American rights. No one,
therefore, except persons who counsel complete
. surrender td German terrorism, can imagine the
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President going too fast or toq far.
Nor can anyone who believes in maintaining the
nation's soverignty and honor question the impera
tive need of such measures of defense as President
Wilson requests. Our ports are virtually block-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917.
aded by German piracy. Hardly a vessel flying the
Stars and Stripes has sailed for Europe in the last
three weeks. Americans whose business or family
interests constrain them to cross the Atlantic must
go on liners of the Entente nations if they go at
all and must take tbe hazard of submarine murder.
The loss to American business, if present conditions
continue, will be grievous indeed, but infinitely
greater will be the loss to American honor. If Con
gress is to quibble while U-boats manacle our com
merce and slay our citizens on* the high seas, then
nothing short of the boldest and most peremptory
exercise of power on the President’s part can save
the nation from unspeakable shame and disaster.
The only apparent and plausible explanation of
the course which some Republicans and some Demo
crats in the House and the Senate are pursuing is
that they consider the heart and conscience of the
American people so immersed in money and ease
as to be insensible to issues of honor and right. But
never were politicians more stupidly mistaken, rhe
American people are peace-loving, but they are not
so false to their fathers, nor so false to their
children as to surrender a birthright of
liberty for a mess of pacifist pottage. At
this crucial moment the rank and file of Americans
are as averse to bluster as to cringing; they
realize that the graver the danger, the cooler
should counsel be. But they are waiting eagerly
for some act from the Capitol that will give life and
power to the words from the White House, some as
surance that the stars of their flag shall shine un
afraid and unsullied on land and sea.
We have borne everything for peace; it is time
to do something for honor. We have borne injury
and insult with marvelous self-control, stifling
every natural impulse that we might £eep out of
war. But our tolerance and lohg-suffering has
availed us nothing in true security, for while we
were most patient with Germany's outrages, she
was plotting our ruin through Mexico and Japan.
"We have berne everything for peace; we have done
everything to escape war. It is time to do something
to escape disaster and eternal disgrace.
For the Defense
Os American Principles.
The country’s thoughtful and patriotic opinion
earnestly approves the President’s request of Con
gress for authority to supply American merchant
ships with defensive arms, and means of using
them and “to employ any other instrumentalities
or methods that may be necessary and adequate to
protect our ships and our people in their legitimate
and peaceful pursuits on the seas.”
Failure to vouchsafe that protection and to
maintain the rights involved therein would be un
speakably recreant to tbe duties which a great re
public owes itself and the world. Submission to
the lawless, ruthless course which Germany has
taken against American shipping and that of all
other neutrals would be shamefully false to the
principles that have kept this nation honorable and
free. The great question at issue is not simply
whether our commerce shall be safeguarded but
whether our ideals shall be upheld, whether our
obligation to the cause of justice and civilization
and humanity shall be fulfilled. The great ques
tion, as President Wilson declared in concluding
his appeal to Congress, rises infinitely higher
than selfish material rights to rights—
—which our hearts ' support and whose
foundation is that righteous passion for jus
tice upon which all law, all structures alike of
family, of State and of mankind must rest, as
upon the ultimate base of our existence and
our liberty."
In threatening to destroy American vessels for
exercising their unquestionable rights on the high
seas. Germany flouts the basic principles of our
nation's sovereignty; and in threatening tbe lives
of Americans and other neutrals engaged in law
ful, peaceful labors she defies the humane usage
which for long centuries all civilized nations have
observed. In duty and honor, the United States
cannot submit to that insult and defiance. For
two years our government has been a pattern of all
patience in the face of Germany’s submarine abuse.
It has made broad allowances for the exigencies of
war and has tolerated for tbe sake of peace a thou
sand wrongs which rigid justice would never htfve
brooked.. But at last the point has been reached
where forbearance eeases to be a virtue and be
comes a weakness at once dangerous and dishon
orable. Our transatlantic commerce has been
throttled as effectually almost as if our very ports
were blockaded With a fleet of German U-boats.
Our shipping is tied up tn our home harbors and
our citizens menaced with death if they venture
upon ocean lanes which they are entitled to travel.
The President has taken tbe only course which
national interest and honor permitted, short of
war, in asking Congress for explicit authority “to
defend our commerce and the lives of our people—
with- discretion, but with clear and steadfast pur
pose." It is hardly conceivable that Congress will
do otherwise than grant this request promptly and
in ungrudging measure. Certainly, no one worthy
of American citizenship can wish otherwise than
for tbe defense of American principles.
The “Anti-Paralleling” Decision.
It seems generally agreed that there can be no
effectual appeal from the decision of the Supreme
Court of Georgia declaring unconstitutional the
legislative act of 1915, which was designed to pre
vent private interests from building a competing
line of railway parallel to the Western & Atlantic
road, the property of the Commonwealth. There is
no denying the deplorable fact that the duty of safe
guarding the freedom and independence v>f the
State Road was neglected so long that when finally
eleventh-hour legislation was enacted it proved un
availing in that it failed to stand the legal test.
There is the encouraging assurance, however, that
a fifty-year lease of the Western & Atlantic, on
terms satisfactory to the state, has been negotiated,
so that for at least half a century to come the
road’s rental value will remain unimpaired and the
public’s interests, to that extent, unharmed. But
in jusrtce and wisdom, the State is bound to give
due thought in due time to the interests of its rail
road after the expiration of the next lease, even
though that will be a generation or more hence.
Efforts to prevent the paralleling of the road hav
ing failed, the only other means of safeguarding its
independence lies in extending it to the sea in or
der that it may have the freedom and the price
less advantages of port connections with the larger
tides of commerce. This is not a matter now to be
agitated, but it is one to be borne in mind and in
due season given earnest and definite attention.
DANIELS WAS VALUED HIGHLY
BY DEWEY
By Ralph Smith
WASHINGTON, March I.—The late Admiral George
Dewey was an authority on matters pertaining
to the American navy. His words were gospel.
His views were, respected by all Americans. He occu
pied the hlffhes| rank It is possible for an officer of the
American navy to reach. He occupied it because of
his recognized fitness to discharge its duties and re
sponsibilities as no other man in the navy. No one
not even the courageous and cock-sure Roosevelt —had
the temerity during Dewey's life to challenge his
opinions about the navy. His was the last word.
All of which is said byway of inviting attention to
Dewey’s opinion of Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navyan opinion that has confounded Daniels’ carping
critics. Derwey regarded Daniels as the best secretary
the navy department has ever had.
tea
Mrs. Mildred MHx>an Dewey, widow of the lamented
adndral. has written the following letter to Senator Lee
S. Overman of North Carolina, which has been pub
lished in the Congressional Record:
“I wish you, and tbe people of the country also,
to know that my husband felt for the present sec
retary of the navy, the Hon. Josephus Daniels, a
sincere affection. Only a short time ago the
admiral said: 'I have been in the navy sixty-two
years, and have served under many secretaries of
the navy, bvt Secretary Daniels is the best secre
tary we have ever had. and has done more for the
naw than any other. lam amazed by his knowl
edge of technical matters. He has studied pro
foundly, and his opinion Is founded on close ob
servation. *J*
Mrs. Dewey’s expression of the late admirals ad
miration for Secretary Daniels was unsolicited, and
came to Senator Overman as a surprise. It is calcu
lated tn silence the malicious critics of Daniels both in
and out of the navy.
Although, as Admiral Dewey said, Daniels is the
beet secretary the navy has ever had, and has done
more for the navy than any other, the fact is that no
secretary of the navy, or other cabinet officer, has been
so persistently or maliciously maligned. The press,
particularly of the east, has been unsparing and un
reasoning In its criticisms and attacks upon Daniels.
He has been hefld trp to scorn and ridicule so per
sistently that literally thousands of people have been
deceived concerning his capacity. His predecessor,
George von L. Meyer, of Massachusetts, has been any
thing but kind and generous twwara Daniels, when,
truth to tell, Meyer should not be mentioned in the
same breath with Daniels.
• • •
Daniels is a working secretary. Meyer was a social
secretary. Daniels is on the job from early in the
morning until after night, and has little time for
society. Meyer was a great clubman, a social leader,
and gave comparatively little attention to the navy
department.
The unpopularity of Daniels, as nearly as it may be
computed, dates from the issuance by him of the order
against the wine mess aboard naval vessels and In
navy yards. Some of those who weYe loudest in their
protests against this order have since changed their
minds about the wisdom of' its issuance. They believe
that time has justified its wisdom. It has made for
sobriety in the navy, and though there are some
officers who still resent the restriction, it is certain
that never again will wine or other intoxicants be tol
erated aboard an American warship.
• • •
Daniels’ firm stand against armor plate manufac
turers. munitions makers, etc., has not softened the
attitude of some of his critics, but his course unques
tionably has saved money for the people and has
strengthened the preparedness program with the people.
The efforts of the secretary to popularize the navy
and make it mor# attractive for the enlisted men, also,
displeased a number of persons, but these new methods
have worked wonders in increasing enlistments and
bringing the navy to a higher standard of efficiency.
Admiral Dewey was familiar with the reforms insti
tuted by Daniels, and he lived long enough to see most
of them tried out, with the result that he noted the
general improvement in the American navy.
His words of praise were not the words of a subor
dinate seeking preferment—they were not political
fattery, uttered in the hope of getting something. Dan
iels couldn’t have helped or hurt Dewey, if he had been
of the mind. Moreover, Dewey’s praise of Daniels was
withheld from Daniels himself and from the public
until after Dewey was dead and gone, so there ean
possibly be no question as to their sincerity.
The fact is. Daniels, for some months past, has
been growing steadily in the estimation of the public.
Long ago the more intelligent officers of the navy
reached the conclusions expressed by Dewey, and lat
terly this impression has gained considerable headway
with the public, long deceived by the unjust attacks of
a partisan press.
Sheer Vandalism.
Not satisfied with destroying enemy merchant
men and neutral merchantmen of enemy destina
tion, Germany has turned her submarine savagery
against neutral merchantmen bound for their home
ports on missions entirely peaceful. Such was the
wantonly atrocious character of the U-boat attack
on seven Dutch vessels, all in a single day, three
of which were sunk and the others well-nigh wholly
disabled. Most of these ships were carrying food
supplies to Holland; none had contrabrand cargoes;
none was remotely in the service of the Allies. They
sailed from Falmouth, a port of call, on February
22, relying upon assurances from Berlin that they
would be “relatively safe” in so doing. Yet, these
peacefuT ships, engaged in feeding a neutral, un
offending people, were torpedoed just as though they
had been enemy cruisers.
It is impossible to palliate such outrages: it is
hard to explain them except on the ground that
Germany Is madly bent upon destroying all of the
world’s shipping she can and terrorizing all nations
into submitting to her piracy. There was no mil
itary gain whatsoever in sinking cargoes of wheat
intended for the Dutch people who are grievously
in need o»f food staples. The act was one of sheer
vandalism and ruthlessness. Whether Holland, ex
posed as she is td a German invasion like that which
put Belgium to the sword and torch, will take any
positive steps toward requital is very doubtful; but
there should not be a moment’s doubt as to the
course the United States ought to pursue as the one
powerful guardian of the rights of neutrality and
as an avowed upholder of civilization.
• 9 ♦ "
Rome's Well-Handled Case.
Whatever may be the final verdict on the loca
tion of the Government amor plate plant, Rome has
presented a case in which all Georgia can take
satisfaction and pride. The cogency and skill and
fairness with which that city has urged its claims
from the outset have impressed all observers, none
more than Admiral Fletcher and his colleagues of
the Armor Plant board who visited Rome Wednes
day jind inspected the three sites which it offers.
The controlling points in the selection of a loca
tion for this plant are understood to be strategic
position with reference to military defense; prox
imity of raw material, particularly iron ore and
coal; transportation facilities and water power.
In all these essentials, Rome presents marked and,
as we see it. unequaled advantages. It has been a
peculiar pleasure to Atlanta to co-operate with its
good neighbor as best it could in a cause that con
cerns the entire State’s well-being.
| THE THREE LAWS OF MEMORY. ll.—Connection
The first thing, as we have seen.'in order to re
member a thing well, is to get it sharply impressed
upon the mind. That is the law of attention.
The second law is that of connection.
It means that we must in some way connect the
new idea with some one of the old and familiar
ideas already in our mind.
The memory is like a club. Strangers are not
permitted unless they are introduced by a member.
This law is based upon the fact that one
thought does not follow another at haphazard in
the mind, but all thoughts are in some way chain
ed together.
No matter bow unrelated and strange our
thoughts seem to be, if we attend carefully we will
find that never one of them has come to us that was
not led on by another. Every new idea is introduc
ed either by some impression from without the
mind, upon the senses, or by some idea already in
the mind.
Thoughts are roped together, as Alpine climb
ers, and without some connecting rope any thought
is liable to fall—to “escape your memory.”
To make sure to remember a new thing, there
fore, get it fastened to some old one.
It matters not how trivial or fanciful tne tie.
The main thing is to have it interesting. Some
times the more foolish it is the better it holds.
For instance, you are learning French. You
are told the French for “house” is “maison.” The
new word has no relation to tbe old. How can you
fix it tn your memory? “Maison” sounds like “ma
son,” and “masons” build “nouses.” So “mason”
becomes the link.
Studying Russian you find the word fo¥ “eye”
to “glaz.” Very well; “glaz"—“glass”—glass eye”
—■"eye."
| ENGLAND AT WAR. IV.—The Trail of the Zeppelin HASKIN.
LONDON, Feb. I.—All England looked skyward
daily and nightly for months before opportunity
came to glimpse the approach of either hawk or
dragon of the skies, the Taube or the Zeppelin. How
ever, London and the rest of England never tired of
looking up. It is even probable that if neither form
of the flying terror had appeared to drop its explosive
burdens here and there, the people of England would
have been disappointed.
The attitude of the dwellers of the cities has been
different from that of the country people, from the very
beginning of the war; and notably so toward the visit
ing airship. When, some centuries ago, fear smote the
heart of the islanders, or was supposed to smite it,
because of the vision of a dread comet in the skies,
the city people, while scared, also were pleasurably
excited. The country people, if the old chronicles are
to be believed, took the thing seriously, but manifested
In it a most extraordinary but entirely humanlike
interest.
History to a certain extent has repeated itself in
England since the Zeppelin raids began. The supersti
tion of the comet days of course has gone. It was a
cold, understandable reality which the people were
facing. There has been no hysteria even among the
women of town or country. The British matron,
whether she lives in Devin or in I»ndon, is pretty hard
to scare.
Zeppelin bombs did some damage and took their
toll of life in London. They took no toll of courage.
It may not be easy to understand it, but the inevitable
conclusion is, after a mingling with the people from
High Barnet to Whitechapel, and beyond both districts,
that the Englishman, the Englishwoman and.the English
child of the age of intelligent appreciation may be a
bit disappointed if no Zeppelin shall come back to add
to the excitement of life.
The Englishman has been known always for his
phlegm. Americans and the French say , that the
Englishman has a keen sense of humor and but little
sense of wit. Perhaps both Americans and Frenchmen
are wrong, but it is admitted by many Englishmen
that they are quicker to respond to the drawn-out
humor of a Pickwick than they are to the “instant
thinking’’ witticism of their brothers over the sea and
channel. Londoners saw a sort of humor in the long
drawn-out, to-be-continued-in-our-next stories of the
coming Zeppelins.' Even the scattered tragedies of
events, when the real play was on, did not rob the
situation pf its general character of comedy.
So far as fear is concerned, the best proof of its
absence is that when Londoners heard or suspected
that the night of a raid was at hand they gathered in
great crowds near the places where it was known 'that
anti-aircraft guns were emplaced. It was natural to
suppose that the authorities had stationed the guns to
command the approaches to buildings most likely to
be attacked from the skies. Consequently the assump
tion was that near the sky-sweeping artillery was the
point of danger. London men, women and children
gathered as close to the vantage places as the authori
ties would permit, and this they did after several
nightly bomb droppings had proved the probable per
sistence of peril.
Londoners, however, do not make up the whole or
anything like the whole of the English people. It is
necessary to go into the country where the yeoman
spirit still lives and where, generation through genera
tion, have been preserved the characteristics of the
people who faced the .Armada’s peril, who rallied to the
standards of Charles or of Cromwell, and who have
kept the home fires of the old English traditions burn
ing down to the present hour.
One Zeppelin went over the county of Kent. A fol
lowing of its trail almost before the huge nightbird
had taken its flight eastward across the sea gave full
knowledge of just how the English people of the old
countryside stock looked on the visiting raider s viola
tion of their privacy, their comfort and their life in
home and field.
English villages all through the county of Kent were
roused from their sleep of centuries by a reveille of
bursting bombs. The natural assumption is that the
Germans, far aloft, with the bomb in his hand, desired
to drop it on a fortified place, on a munitions factory
or on some camp where the rallying men of Britain
were training themselves for service on the battle line
of their country. With the rarest exceptions the Zep
pelin attempts on the peace and welfare of England
have been fruitless of damage to military positions.
In one of the most beautiful valleys which England
holds Is a little village called Bearsted In Kent. It has
been sleeping away ever since the Saxons set the foun
dation stones of Holy Cross church, upon which the
Normans later laid the stones of superstructure. A
Zeppelin which had come over the sea at made
inland into Kent. It dropped a few bombs in a town
of considerable size and then turned and made its way
over the tenth century hamlet of Bearsted.
The nightbird flew low. The churning of Its wheels
roused the descendants of the men who had gone out
under Harold to fight the Norman duke at Hastings.
Perhaps it was the first arousing thing which had
happened there since 1066, and it was a welpome
reveille. The village green was crowded with the
awakened villagers who lived about it. They had heard
the explosion of the bombs a£ar «off, and now suddenly,
while they waited, they heard the grating whir of frhe
wheels of the approaching monster.
Not one of the villagers made back for his house
when that night shadow passed over the green. They
expected bombs to drop, but they did not move. It
had come to them, this thing for which they had been
waiting through the years—a something which would
quicken the current of their existence. Alarmed? Not
a bit. There they stood, and it may be wondered, per
haps, if there was not disappointment because the
flying man of war refused to dignify village or villagers
with a dropped message of recognition.
Not far from this little hamlet of Kent is a town
whose name is world known. The Zeppelin passed over
it and dropped several bombs, one of which destroyed
three buildings on a short residence street running
back from.the main highway. In a little house less
than one block removed an old woman was thrown
from her bed by the force of the explosion. She was
of soldier stock, and if she had not been the chances
are that she would have taken matters just as coolly
as she did.
•It’s annoying.” said this rudely disturbed matron
of Britain. “It is an hour earlier than I usually get
Sometimes suggestion comes by opposites. The
Russian for “tooth” is “zub." “Zub”—sounds a
bit like “soup.” You don’t eat soup with your
teeth. "Zub”—“soup”—“tooth.”
Freakish and silly as these links are I bare
found them to .hold excellently.
And they are. only needed at first. When the
mind has made the passage from “glaz” to “eye”
several times by using the bridge “glass-eye,” it
discards the bridge and leaps directly. But it is a
good thing always to invent some connecting link
between what you want to remember and what is
already familiar.
Thus your memory becomes, so to speak, an or
ganic fabric, or interwoven, and not merely as a
loose pile of pebbles.
All systems of minemonics are based on this
law of connection. But the best system is one you
ievise for yourself.
When I was a boy 1 learned the order of the five
first books of the Bible from the nonsense word
“Gelnd,” composed of the initial letters of Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; in
like manner the five major prophets by the word
"Ijiled,” and 'he minor prophets by the rigmarole
“Hojoam, Objomina, Hazehazema,” which words
are made up of the first syllables of the names Ho
sea, Joel, Amos, and so on. It has been many years
ago. but I have never forgotten these link-words;
perhaps for the reason that they are so freakish.
The main point is to take time and attention
and see that the new thing to be remembered is in
some way tied up to some thing already familiar
or to some striking words or objects.
We will next take up the law of Repetition.
(Copyright, 1917, by‘Frank Crane.)
up.” Then she went about the work of getting her
son’s breakfast.
Not far from Bearsted is a village which rejoices or
not, as the inhabitants may view it, in the fact that it is
on the line of a railroad. The glimpse of a locomotive
headlight or something else caused the German visitors
to drop several bombs on this little town. A whole
block of shops on the main street was battered to
oieces. If there was any loss of life, the fact was con
cealed. It is said that there was none. Now it may .
seem unbelievable, but the residents of J his town, or
some of them at any rate, are so far from being dis
turbed over the tragic or semi-tragio event of that
night that they seem rather triumphant because their
village has found its place on the map. One villager
rather curiously put it. “We have made so’me sacrifice
for the cause of our country.”
Not far from this railroad town which had its night
of excitement, if not of actual horror, is a sleepy little
village which knows no railroad and most of whose
Inhabitants probably never heard a steam whistle
blow. Some of the old farmers round about it still
wear smocks, and it is probable that until recently the
charge of the Light Brigade was the most recent rous
ing event in their memories.
A Zeppelin went over this place, and had just cleared
it when it dropped in rapid succession a dozen bombs,
terrific bombs, for they shook the Inhabitants of Sleepy
Hollow out of their beds. It may seem incredible, but
it is none the less true that the inhabitants of this
village feel something like resentment that the drop
ping bombs of the Zeppelin did not at least do damage
enough in the village itself to give the people some of
the tyme which has been accorded to the town beyond
the hill where the block of stores was destroyed.
There are thousands of villages in England like
those over which the trail of the Zeppelin passed. The
English farmer folk and village folk are pretty much
alike from Spithead to the Cheviot Hills. It has been
said that the main Intention of the Zeppelin visits is to
scare the English people. The English authorities say
that the people cannot be scared, and there are for-
in plenty in London to agree with them. Tbe
English are an imperturbable lot, and they seam rather
to relish the bomb which breaks up the monotony of
existence.
Os course, all the English city folk and comrtry folk
are talking about Zeppelins. The country folk are
wondering whether they are coming again, and. If they
do come, whether they will arrive byway of John
Vidler s place or over yonder where the Widow Spencer
lives. In the tap rooms of the Royal Oak, the Kent
Yeoman, the Plow and Harrow and the Sun hm the
men gather and discuss the visitations.
There is something higher and more creditable than
mere stolidity in the lack of fear in the folk of the
countryside. From all of tbe villages the younger men
have gone forth to war. The mothers and fathers, the
sisters and' the little brothers are at home. “Bin is
doing his bit in the trenches, so why can’t we stand a
little something without raising a row about It?”
["wrong WAYS OF WORKING 1
'
By H. Addington Bruce
ONE of the commonest mistakes made when
working is to keep the attention concen
trated for too long a time. This hastens
the onset of fatigue, whether the work be mental
or physical.
The wise course L to have frequent, if short, •
rest periods during the working day. Then the
attention can be intensely concentrated without
causing exhaustion.
By this means, indeed, work can be far bet
ter .done and at far less expenditure of energy
Tests by efficiency experts have verified the truth
of this. Accordingly frequent rest periods have
been made the rule in* establishments where mod
ern efficiency methods have been adopted.
Act on the same principle yourself. Don’t loaf
when working. But don't let your mornings and
afternoons be given unbrokenly to work. At in
tervals take time to relax, to think of nothing in
particular, or at all events something other than
your work.
And make it a rule to keep your work place
well ventilated. Poor ventilation means poor
working results. It also means exhaustion. It
may mean costly mistakes.
It is, of course, impossible to say exactly what
proportion of industrial accidents are due to fa
tigue superinduced Ly lack of ventilation. But
there is reason to believe that the proportion is
not small.
Again, always work earnestly, but never work
hurriedly.
Hurry is a form of worry, and it has worry's
physiological consequences. That is, it deranges
the internal organs of the body, causes fatigue to
develop in an extreme degree, and. by disturbing
the functions of the brain, it interferes with ac
curacy of thought and action..
As a result, work done in a hurry is usually
work done badly, pdrhaps so badly that it has to
be done all over again. - * .
Remember, also, to be satisfied with doing a fair
day s work. not built overnight. And, g
as one philosopher of work has justly pointed out:
“Many an ambitious toiler comes to grief througn
making prodigious efforts to finish a task in less
than nprnial time. This inevitably results in
straining, and hence abusing, the human machine.”
It is likewise a serious mistake to buckle down
to work immediately after eating. Mental work
will draw to the head, physical work to the limbs,
blood that the stomach needs to aid in digesting
the food that has been put into it. Indigestion is
anatural consequence of working too soon after '
meals.
For at least half an hour after every meal,
therefore, do no work that you can avoid doing.
Instead, lounge about restfully, preferably out
doors. Or go for a quiet stroll.
Provided you'do not hurry, or go too far, this
will do you a deal of good. It will give your *
stohiach a chance to function properly, and in ad
dition will help both to rest and clear yonr mind,
thus helping to put ybu in excellent trim* for the
wbrk period that follows.
Finally, the worst mistake of all is to do your
work in a spirit of drudgery. But this is a point
so important that it may well be reserved for con- .
sideration by itself.
