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Au Invitation to Conn Again
So many times lately I’ve said to the
"arm»r. "Let us thank the dear Lord
for*the sunshine." And 1 really mean
it. We do not five thanks as often as
we should This winter may teach many
of us to count our blessings. and chief
among them should be health, the ability
to work and the good weather. "But if
it rains., then rain's my choice."
Th:s valley is fine land after it gets
dry enough to use. but. oh. the mud.
and the long, long time before planting
can begin We have our garden seeds,
some I saved and some we ordered, but
even Irish potatoes are not started yet.
The severe cold ruined our collards and
turnips, so the chickens are now en
joying the first crop of insects, if such
•here be, and they are having a fine
time with the grass seeds The rains
prevented the garden being kept clean,
and there was the rankest grass I ever
saw. Those rains taught me one lesson.
I don’t want any more bush butter
beans. Ours were loaded when the rain
came and on the ground as flat as a
flounder it laid them and I did not have
one to dry nor to can.
Mrs. Youngblood’s letter teaches all
of us something. I seldom hear of ker
shaws They are far superior to pump
kins for table use Last year I sent for
some seed The Farmer took them out
to plant, and they spent the summer in
his pocket This year he has promised
to do better than that—says he believes
they will do better in the ground than
in his pocket, ind I know that they
will, for I once gathered fifty off of one
vine.
This department is taking on new
life, and all of us will welcome our
Swedish member. We hope that he will
tell us about the customs of his native
land, also what they plant and when
planting time comes. He is pretty close
to the •‘midnight sun." and it will be
interesting to learn more of the twilight
that lasts for weeks.
Mrs. Hardin gives us some helpful
suggestions I have used the jug of
hot water in a fireiess incubator, but
had none to fit this box of biddies. This
winter's aero weather made it hard to
even keep things that were right on the
hearth. My geraniums were beautiful
and tried my best to keep them, but
they froze in spite of my efforts. Sev
eral readers of The Journal wrote that
they would keep them through the win
ter and send me cuttings in the spring,
but I hoped that I would be able to
save them. They made a bright spot
for all of us as long as they lasted.
Pretty soon I shall send for five more.
They cost fifteen cents each, are rooted
and usually begin to bloom right away.
The cuttings are slower, and if I cannot
keep them through the winter I must
get the blooms as soon as I can. In
Atlanta there will be wagons driven up
to the sidewalks and filled with ill sorts
of geraniums, ferns., heliotrope and
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fuschias. They will each have one
1 bloom to show you what their color is,
and to tempt the flower lover. They have
been grown in a hothouse and look so
fresh that the fifteen or twenty cents
in your pocket seems to clamor for the
exchange. You away with visions of
beauty. Most likely the weather sud
denly changes in the night and morn
ing finds you bereft of geranium and
the aforesaid twenty cents. But most
likely you are tempted at least once
more. 1 saw a girl with neatly mended
gloves stand by a flower wagon. She was
looking in her purse and said, "I’ve just
enough money to get a pair of gloves,
but, oh. I do want a flower for my desk."
Next day I saw a flower pot on her
desk and the geranium it held was beau
tiful. "So you got the flower." I said.
"Hurrah for you.” She flushed and said,
“I made up my mind that these gloves
could be made to last until thin ones
are needed."
More than once I've known girls to
take the money reserved for the day's
lunch and spend it for a pot of flowers.
That was a feast that lasted many
months.
Mr. Kinsey writes about his trukeys
and it should inspire more of the farm
ers with a zeal to do likewise.
Mrs. Shepard wrote of her success.and
I am hoping that both will double
next fall. Mine have all gone
to help build up other flocks, except
one hen and a gobbler and they are too
fine to stay with me very long: I’ve
sent for one more hen to add to my
flock of layers, so as to continue to
raise others as thrifty as these are.. It’s
folly to mate from one's own flock,
they are so liable to disease.
These spring days are a delight to
a genuine lover of the farm; there
are young pigs, calves, chikens and the
garden to employ one's time. It is a
busy time, but how sorry I've always
felt for the unoccupied individual. Even
chasing the butterfly called happiness
is unsatisfactory. Happiness comes to
the busy man or woman while it flies
from others. The song of the birds has
begun. Let us listefi and try to be as
happy and as busy. I am afraid, that
we have lost all of our blue birds. The
cold winter either drove them farther
south or killed them. Last year they
came for me to feed them, but only
one pair came this time, and the red
birds were scarce, too. I'd like to fix
a bird house but the sparrows are such
a nuisance.
Who will send us some true and tried
corn meal recipes? I hope all of you
have trued the bran, or raisin bread. It
is equal to a balanced meal, for it has
most of the needed elements in it. Be
sure and give the children their share
of sweets, fats (not too much) and
cereals. Their growth demands a liber
al supply.
Hoping to hear from you soon, I am.
Faithfully your*. ,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
Tuscumbia, Ala
Our Swedish Member
My Dear Mrs. Thomas: I take pleas
ure in sending you a few* lines, thank-
• ing you ever so much for all your good
• and In'.eresting letters that I have been
reading in Our Household department
of the good old Atlanta Journal.
They, as well as a lot of other good
things in The Journal, have been of
great help to me •in more than one
way since I came down to the Sunny
South and Started in farming and teach-
• ing. And that's why I get more help
’ out of Our Household letters and take
more interest in them than most of our
men folks. They have all the household
help ihey want. 1 like to hear how
others do things, most all of us have
ways of our own I always like to
find out the best way and to do a thing
right from the start to the finish.
Farming is what I like best. I was
right on a farm in Minnesota and I
have spent most of niy days up there
on the farm. Farming here in Tennes
see is quite different from what I was
used to up north. I like the south and
have made good, here the few years I
have been here. *
Stock raising is what seems to be
best here, fruit asd chickens come next.
Com and hay are our main crops.
We all aim to do our best, doing our
bit by saving food and raising all we
can this coming year and trying to
bring this awful war to a good end as
soon as possible. e
I now close my scribble, wishing you
ail good blessings from our God In your
good work for the Lord and the uplift
ing of humanity to a better and nobler
life.
I'd like to hear more about your mis
sionary life in Japan, as I belong to the
Mission Friends, or. as we Swedes say.
Mission Banner.
From a thankful reader,
GUST LORENTSON.
Erin. Tenn., Rural Rou4e 4.
TBYXNG TO DO HER BIT
Dear Mrs. Thomas and Householders:
I have been a silent reader of this page
for some time, but will come in for a
little visit this afternoon. There is
nothing I enjoy more than the nice
things Mrs. Felton and Mrs. Thomas
write about the Civil war. the present
war. chicken raising, etc. I agree with
them on living economically. I never
destroy a thing that can be eaten by
man or beast. I keep a large-mouth
pickle bottle on my cook table, put ev
ery piece of wrapping cord in It and I
also save every newspaper, wrapping
paper and paper sacks. I make bottoms
to baby shoes from old felt hats. I
patch baby shoes with cuff and back of
men's leather gloves and this farmer
will not wear socks after the heel and
toe wears old. so I cut off the best of
them and make very good baby stock
ings, so it all saves me many a dime.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918.
11l Treatment of Italian
Soldiers Aided Great Rout
At Hands of Austo-Germans
Failure to Teach Them Causes
of War Left Them Prey to
the Reports Scattered by
Traitors
ABTTCXrE XV
BY KEKBERT COBET
PARIS. Dec. 15.—(8y mail.) —Dis-
patches from Rome today brings the
news that the Italian cabinet has been
able to defeat a parliamentary attempt
to inquire into the causes for the re
cent debacle This is an excellent thing
for the cabinet.
But it will be a better thing for
Italy, for the allies, and for democracy
if those causes are made known. For
there is no hope that they will be re
moved until light is let in on them.
The prime cause for the Italian mili
tary collapse was ignorance. The mass
of the Italian army did not know what
they were fighting for, or why, or what
Italy was to gain. They had no heart
in it, no patriotic feeling, no hope.
"The Italian soldiery has looked upon
this war as a ‘blood tax’ Imposed by
the government,’’is the statement of keen
and unbiased observers. “They had no
more liking for It than men usually
have for taxes—quite apart from the
suffering and death involved.”
Yet there is no more patriotic man
than thb Italian peasant. Narowly, pa
triotic, perhaps, but wholly and honestly
patriotic. He is proud of his blood. A
peasant, descendant of centures of peas
ants, he looks down upon the upstarts
of a few generations who own the land
he farms. He believes that Italy was
once the greatest nation in the world
and that it will be again. But his al
legiance is to an ideal and not to the
present state. He has a racial, but not
a national feeling.
Italy lives in compartments as no
other great state does. One is told, “I
am a Roman—l am no Italian.” One is
introduced to this man as a Sicilian and
to that man as a but never
to either as an Italian. Conditions are
I make quilt lining of tobacco sacks,
chair cushion covers and pin cushions
are made from old neckties, and old
samples of lady’s and men’ suits, torn
out and basted on cloth and worked with
colored thread.
I save scraps and strings too small to
put in quilts and fill chair cushions with
them. I make my winter hats. I cover
them with velvet or silk. They look
just as nice as one in the stores.
I have been married over four years
and have two sweet little children. The
little girl will be three years old Feb
ruary 28, and my little boy was one
year old last December, and to prevent
them from stumbling and falling in the
fire I have five pieces of wire fastened
to each mantel post, which has saved
their lives a great many times. We
are renters and we work very hard on
the farm. Oh, I was about to forget. I
have some okra seed, about a quart. It
is not the velvet. The pods are very
large and from three to ten inches long,
rough and sticky, but is very fine okra.
The stalks grow five, six and seven feet
high, bears till frost. Also the striped
kershaw. squash, golden gourd neck
squash and- the white scallop
squash.
I never did anything that I did not
find a use for. I save vthat others
would burn to get rid of. I hope my
letter will help some new housekeeper.
Is not this war just awful? Think
of all of the young men who will have
to be taken away from their homes.
What will we poor women do? There
will be some way provided. I think it
would kill me for my brothers and
husband to leave me, but maybe .not, no
one knows. Yours truly.
MRS. G. A. YOUNGBLOOD.
White Pond. S. C., R. F. D. 1, Box 35.
FROM A TURKEY RAISER.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: * am a farmer,
living in Echols county, about one mile
from the Florida line. ’Tis warm down
here this morning: sat on my front
porch most of yesterday. lam crippled
and confined to my rolling chair. 1
have raised a large family—seven girls
and three boys. All are living. One son
Is in the United States navy. All are
married except one daughter and a son.
If you and the Farmer ever come down
this way come to see me. I, too. am
interested in turkey raising. I sold SSO
worth of turkeys this fall from three
hens, besides I saved three young hens
to raise from. You were raised in Madi
son, Fla. 1 surely would have been
glad to have met you. You remember
you were at Mount Zion at a camp meet
ing three or four years ago. I surely
appreciate Mrs. W. H. Eelton’s writings:
also Dr. Frank Crane’s and the wise
things of Bishop Candler. May the good
blessings of the Lord be with you all
until the end cometh.
Yours fraternally,
P. W. KINSEY.
ANOTHER HELPFUL LETTER.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: I enjoy reading
your heipful letters in The Atlanta
Journal. I, too, have had chickens all
this cold spell, hut mine were older
than yours. Now, here is a plan I think
will be helpful to you or others having
small chicks: Fill an earthen jug with
real hot water, have a good cork stop
per. wrap some newspapers around it
and it will stay warm almost one day
and night without reheating. It is so
much better than a hot bottle in a bed
to cold feet, for it stays hot so much
longer.
I never lost any fruit at all; just
kept a lamp# burning in fruit closet. T
lost a few jars last winter in the same
place as I neglected putting the lamp in
the closet.
T am an enthusiast about raising
chickens, turkeys, cows, milk and but
ter and canning. T have thoroughbred
Plymouth Rock chickens. I’ve just sold
twenty friers. Hope lam not intruding.
Your friend,
MRS. A. L. HARIN.
Eclectic, Ala.
Wonderful Egg Producer
Aay poultry ralwr con easily donblc big
profits by doubling the egg production of bls
:,<*ns. A scientific tonic bas been discovered
Hint revitalises the flock and makes ben work
all tb* time. The tonic is called "More Eggs.”
Give your hens a few cents' worth of "More
Eggs ' and yon will he smazol and delighted
with re-Mlts. A dollar's worth of "More
Lggs’’ will double this year’s production of
eggs, so if you wish to try this great profit
maker, write K. J, Reefer, poultry expert.
,1.b2 Reefer RMg.. Kansas City, Mo., who will
send yon a season's supply of “More Eggs’’
lonic for (prepaid'. So confident is
Mr. Reefer of the results that a million dollar
■'ank guarantees if yon are not absolutely satis
tied your dollar will be returned on request
>,r.d the "More Eggs" eoeta you nothing. Send
i dMlar today or ask Mr. Keefer for his free
poultry book, that tells the experience of a
man who has made a fortune out of poultry.
(Advt.)
still of the middle ages in this respect,
when hilltop fought against hilltop and
city against city. The organization of
the Italian state is but the tying to
gether of political fagots. The lesser
states preserve their identity and their
ancient antagonisms.
Government Is Autocratic
Before the war the Italian army was
a great instrument in breaking down
this system of political airlocks, by
which neighbors were hermetically shut
off front neighbors. Regiments were
given the names of cities—Turin. Milan
Genoa for example—but they were al
ways recruited* from distant localities.
The Sicilian was sent to the north of
Italy. The Lombard served among the
orange groves of the south. Their eyes
were opened to the magnitude and te
the possibilities of their land Through
the army a national spirit was being
gradually created. The Libyan war of a
few years ago aided greatly in solidi
fying the nation.
If this war had been presented to
Italy, rank and file, military and civil,
as a great national .duty, the consensus
of opinion is that Italy would have re
sponded nobly.
But it was not. The Italian govern
ment has been autocratic in action, al
though truly liberal and patriotic in
motive. Signors Sonnino. Salandra, Or
lando, the others charged with the duty
of direction, have acted as an autocracy
They have either feared to take the peo
ple into their confidence or they have
not thought It worth while. Sonnino is
the great spirit in the Italian cabinet
He is a man of intellect and heart and
sincerity. Yet his passion for secrecy
has become proverbial in Italy. He
trusts the people not at all, and indi
viduals rarely. **
"Whenever I enter Signor
room,” said a diplomat of insight ano
humor, “I always have the feeling tha’
when I tapped upon the door Sonninc
thrust an important paper into a
drawer and turned the key.”
In other countries there was not the
need for propagandizing the masses
that there was in Italy. In these other
countries the people read the news
papers. In Italy the percentage of
illiteracy runs very high. The amount
actually spent—spent—on education
was extremely small before the war.
The newspapers as a rule have small
circulations and are almost always,
confined to the cities. The peasant
reads hardly at all. He hates the
Austrian with an old haatred, but he
knows nothing evil of the German
acts and alms.
City Men Escaped Army
Unfortunately, from several points
of view, the Italian army is, mostly
made up of peasants. The townspeople
are infected with socialism, and so the
young men of the towns were largely
permitted to evade military service be
fore the war, while the patient and loy
al peasant was forced to do his bit.
That way political troubles were avoid
ed and an excellent army created. When
the war was declared against Italy
this peasant army was called to the
colors. No one bothered to tell them
why. They were merely summoned. In
a vague way they knew they were to
fight their old enemy, Austria—and
they liked that —but they did not know
why they were to fight. An unknown
and unseen government had demanded
of them the “blood tax.”
Nor after fighting began were they
granted any WTillghtment. The daily
communiques from headquarters were
filled with praise for the achievements
of the Italian troops, but the men still
felt themselves fighting in an unknown
cause. Try to realize the depth of ig
norance in which these men—naturally
shrewd and intelligent, but quite un
schooled —are sunk. A comparatively
few of them read, even of those who
are able to vead. They come from iso
lated communities in the hills and val
leys, to which the rumors of Euro
pean politics came as rarely as to the
Blackfoot reservation in Glacier Park.
The headquarters communiques issued
by Cadorna are perfect examples of the
art of telling nothing. They gave his
men no hint as to war aims, enemy
plans, or actual achievements. Very
rarely did they tell of the setbacks en
countered. When they did, Signor Son
nino is said to have censored them.
Cadorna is perhaps the only command
ing general who was thus edited by the
home government. His men were, left
fighting in the dark, at the will of
the government to which they feel the
most vague loyalty because a true na
tional spirit has not yet been developed,
for purposes that were not revealed.
They began to murmur more than a year
ago. Then the government—or the
Great Headquarters—gave the final
proof that it did not understand the
democratic and really patriotic spirt
of its men. t
If the situation had then been set
before the army: if the reasons why
Italy was at war had been frankly told
and the fine ends aimed at eloquently
set forth, the men would have respond
ed nobly.
So, at least, I am assured by men who
are in close touch with affairs. Instead,
the government began a series of prom
ises which were only stop gaps.
Government Broke Promises
The men were assured unofficially
that if this or that were done they
would be free to go home. Last winter
was to have been the last winter of
the war. The war was to be over when
the Bainsizza platueau was taken. Each
time the army reached the goal a new
1 stunt was set for it. No more perfect
ly efficient method of breeding discon
tent among men who are democrats and
patriots at heart could have been de
vised. Some sort of revolt had for
months been looked forward to as acer-
I tainty.
it is true that great stress was laid
upon the redemption of "Italia Irreden
ta’’ and Ihe creation of a “Greater
Italy.” But it must be remembered
that only the borderers take the faint
est interest in the regaining of the Tren
tino and Tricst. The Italian system of
political compartments operated against
it. The Venetian might hope for Triest,
but the unlettered and peaceful Sicilian
only wanted to be left alone. H e might
have been educated into a realization
that until the Trentino and Triest are
secured for Italy her natural and proper
expansion—and above all her military
and industrial safety—cannot be se
cured.
No one bothered to tel) him. He was
merely ordered to go out and tight. In
time he rebelled.
The magnificent feature of the situa
tion is that after the debacle—after one
army had been captured and another
badly shattered and the entire line,
thrown back in disorder-—that the truth
penetrated to the dim minds of these
tine men. Even today they have not
seized the situation in its entirety. They
only know that Italy has been invaded,
and that the great Italy of the future,
for which they have hoped, and in which
they have believed with an almost relig
ious fervor, has been endangered. They
have rallied, not to the support of any
politician’s dream of expansion, not to
any merchant’s plan for profits, not to
any militarist’s scheme of a line of forts
on the Alpine summits, but to the de
fense of their land
When one knows the treatment to
which ttfey have been personally sub
jected one can only revere their self
leas patrtottem and their herote courage.
Sunday School Lesson
FEB. 17, 1918
DR MARION McH. HULL.
About the middle of Christ’s ministry
His popularity had grown so great, as
well as the opposition to Him. that He
changed His form of teaching and began
to teach in parables. Coming to the sea
of Galilee the crowds were so groat that
He got into a boat for a pulpit again
and spoke to the people. It is possible
that He may have seen a farmer sow
seed on the hillsides behind the town,
but if not. it was a very common sight
and one with which all His hearers were
familiar.
The Purpose of the Parable
After He had spoken the parable. His
disciples asked Him to explain to them,
why He did so. His answer is one of
the most difficult things in the Bible to
explain. Quoting from Isaiah <0 Chap.)
He tells them He does it to keep others
from seeing it unless they really want
to. God’s primary purpose was not to
keep them from being converted by not
understanding the parable, but to give
it only to those who were in earnest
enough to want it If God gives a little
light and one will not receive it, the
stronger light will only blind instead
of illuminating. Old Matthew Henry
probably expresses the purpose of the
parables better than any one else when
he said that a parable is a shell to
keep the truth for the believer and from
the scoffer.
Jesus said also that the mystery of
the kingdom was to be revealed to them.
A mystery in the scripture is something
which is hid and to be revealed; not
something mysterious and wonderful in
that sense. The mystery of the kingdom
was revealed in the parables and the
mystery of the church was revealed in
the epistles. Don’t make the mistake of
confounding the church and the king
dom. The kingdom is the reign of God
and the church is only a group of called*
out ones whom God is preparing and
using to bring about the time when He
shall reign. The church is not the king
dom, but only a phase of it, preparatory
to it.
The Sower, the Seed and the Soil
The parable which He gave first is ordina
rilv known as the parable of the sower. It
would probably better be known as the parable
of the soils. He spoke of a sower going out to
sow and some of the seed fell by the wayside,
some fell on stony ground, some fell among
thorns, and some fell into good ground. Notice
the propositions which Jesus uses there. that
which fell by the wayside on the hard ground
was snatched away by the birds of the air inv
mediately and brought no fruit. That which
fell on stony ground took root quickly, but
withered just as quickly, because it had no
depth of earth. That which fell among thorns
was choked by the rank growth of weeds, which
were more vigorous. That which fell into good
ground took root, had depth, and yielded fruit
some thirty fold, some sixty fold and 100 fold.
Jesus gave the explanation of this parable to
His disciples so that we have no doubt as to
what its meaning was. The seed was the Word
of God; and a very apt analogy It was, for
seed gives life and nourishment. It is always
good. There was just as much possibility In the
seed that fell by the wayside as that which
fell in the good ground. The difference in re
sults was a question of soil. The wayside hear
er was the indifferent man or woman; his
mind has been hardened by the constant impres
sions like tIA ground that has been hardened
bv frequent footsteps. The mere repetition of
the Truth, hearing it from childhood has even
made one utterly indifferent to it when a
great truth is presented. John 3:16 does not
make the Impression on you that it would If
you had never heard it before. Re careful that
vour rtind is not so hardened by the constant
repetition of the truth that the word of God
will be snaehed away by the Devil before it
can gain entrance.
Some seed fell on stony ground. It acquired
its growth rapidly but withered rapidly. There
are Impulsive people with emotional natures
that receive the Truth with great joy, but quit
easily when they are put to the test because there
has been no depth in their lives. They have
never seriously considered the step they have
taken, they have never had a sense of sin or
conviction to their duty; they have never real
ized their need for or the blessing of the atone
ment; consequently, the truth is easily crushed
out of their lives whenever any test comes.
It is splendid soil, usually, where weeds
grow, particularly if the growth is rank. That
soil might have been used to produce grain or
herbs and to have brought joy to the owners.
Such hearers have received the Word of Gotl
with mixed motives. They have been concerned
about their soul’s salvation, but they have
been equally concerned about, worldly pleasures
or business. No man can grow good seed and
weeds on the same soil; no man can serve two
masters. To be a friend of the world is en
mity against God.
Some seed fell into good ground, and Jesus
said those were such as accepted the Word of
God, obeyed it and followed It. These brought
forth according to their several capacities, some
thirty, some sixty and some 100 fold.
What was the difference between the results
of this seed sowing? The last one accepted the
Word of ilod, took it into its bosom and made
it a part of itself. That Is all it had to do.
God made the seed germinate, God made it to
come to fruition, God brought about the blessed
results because these people gave Him tne
chance. The others differed only in degree.
Some form of worldiness was the essence of it
all: the indifferent or wayside hearer, the im
pulsive or stony ground hearer, the impure or
mixed motive hearer. One accepted it and got
results, one rejected it and no impression was
made, one gave It superficial welcome, and one
a divided welcome. Take heed how ye hear.
Three Civilians Killed
In Air Raid on Nancy
PARTS, Feb. 13. —Three civilians were
killed and five wounded when two Ger
man airplanes dropped several bombs
on Nancy last night, the war office re
ported today.
There was mutual artillerying north
west of Rheinas.
The French took prisoners in raids
east of Auburive in the Vosges region.
An attempted German raid east of Em-
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WHAT THEY SAY IN STATES
WHERE WOMEN VOTE
r There are twenty million of women of
i voting age in the United States. Govern
!or Lister, of the state of Washington,
Isays: “The state of Washington is now
ready to ratify the suffrage amend
ment.” Governor Stewart, of Montana,
says: "Montana is ready to ratify it.”
| Governor of Wyoming says: “After
i forty years of experience, Wyoming en
thusiastically recommends the adoption
of federal amendment." Gocernor Gun
ter, of Colorado, says: "We are in favor
:—find woman suffrage beneficial in this'
state. I commend the extension to all
1 the women'of the nation.”
Governor Capper, of Kansas, says:
j “Woman suffrage an unqualified sucess
:in Kansas. It never should have been
| denied the women of the nation.” Gov
ernor Boyle, of Nevada, says: “Nevada’s
people want to see suffrage established
nation wide, as part of the federal con
sitution.” Governor Alexander, of
Idaho, says: “Idaho is in favor of na
tionwide enfranchisement of American
women.”
Oregon’s Governor Withycombe says:
"I am strong advocate of suffrage
amendment.” Governer Simon Bamberg
er, of Utah, says: "Utah legislature by
unanimous vote in favor of federal
amendment.” Governor Hunt, of Ari
zona, says: “Arizona has already rati
fied state amendment to constitution—
favor federal amendment for universal
suffrage.” Governor Whitman, of
' York, says: “The state of New York,
by an overwhelming majority, has given
| the vote to its women. I think it is the
i wish of our people that our representa
' tives in congress shall support the
' measure.”
The legislature of California unani
mously passed a resolution in 1917, both
houses concurring: “The denial of the
right of women to vote on equal terms
with men is an injustice, therefore we
urge upon congress the submission of
the federal amendment to all the states
In the union.”
President Wilson advised the Demo
crats in congress to give suffrage to
women, because it would be an act of
right and justice to the women of the
country and the world.”
THE WHIBMGIGS OF TIME
In the year 1870 and thereabouts, Prus
sia, under the guidance of Prince Bis
marck, came down on France “like a
wolf on the fold.” France was “bled
white.” The second Napoleon was con
tinually defeated—morning, noon and
night. His government shut up shop—
the empress escaped to England with
the child, Y oun & Louis Napoleon. Alsace
and Lorraine were taken over by Ger
many, an enormous indemnity was ex
acted from the famine-stricken French
men. Paris was occupied, and France
was forced to accept any humiliation
i that Bismarck might put upon her. No
body went to her relief. There was no
I sympathy and but few tears. Great
Britain made no sign of brotherly kind
i ness. Neither did Russia. Except with
I the Irish Guards, there was no sign of
friendly action from any nation in Eu
rope.
France had to weather the storm
, alone.
England never moved a finger or
i batted an eyelash until ifc leaked out
I that Prussia had some talk with poor
old France in which it was said thaf
under certain conditions Prussia would
be willing for France to annex Belgium
as some recompense for her calamitous
situation. Then Great Britain woke up
with a start. The next thing was an
international agreement "to maintain
the independence of Belgium and to take
up arms against any nation invading it.”
There's the crux of it. When you read
about the indignation of Englalnd over
the invasion of Belgium, you can here
get a sidelight on the situation. Rus
sia went to war with Turkey (In the
Crimean war) in the ’so’s. As soon as
Russia did, so. France and Englalnd
joined hands with Turkey to overthrow
Russia—because Turkey, like Belgium,
is the pawn of several European mon
archies. France has had several revolu
tions. Russia is undergoing one right
now. But these whirligigs of time do
make strange bedfellows in this good
year 1918.
Woman Jumps Into Well
Where Husband Finds
Body; 11l Health Blamed
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Feb. 12.
Mrs. J. E. Anderson, of Carl, a small
town ten mifcs east of Lawrenceville,
took her own life Sunday morning at 2
o’clock, it is said, by jumping head fore
most in a well at a g-inhouse in the rear
of their home. This was her second at
tempt. She was missed by her husband
and a search quickly revealed her body
in the well. She leaves a husband, three
daughters and one son. 11l health is sup
posed to be tihe cause of her act.
Roosevelt Much Better
NEW YORK, Feb. 13z—A marked im
provement in the condition of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt was announced at
Roosevelt hospital this morning.
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a few drops of a drug called freezone.
says a Cincinnati authority.
You merely put a drop or two of this
freezone on the tender, touchy corn to
day and instantly the corn stops hurt
ing. then tomorrow sometime you may
find the old torturous pest somewhere in
your stocking, having fallen off entire
ly without a particle of soreness, pain
or irritation. The skin surrounding and
beneath the former corn will be as
healthy, pink and smooth as the palm
of your hand.
A quarter ounce of freezone is suffi
cient to rid one’s feet of every corn and
callus, and any druggist will charge
but a few cents for it. It is a com
pound made from ether. —(AdvL)
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