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' THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga.
Some Heartening Omens
For the Treaty of Peace
CERTAIN developments of the past week
augur well for the adoption of the
Treaty of Peace and the Covenant of
the League of Nations. The decisive majority
by which the Senate voted down the Fall
amendments shows at least that the ‘ bitter
end" opponents of the compact, those who
would change it so radically as to necessitate
a reopening of negotiations, are in an im
potent minority. Nor is it to be wondered
that tfew Senators, however intense their par
tisan or personal dudgeon against the Presi
dent, are unwilling to take the responsibility
of amendments which would throw’ the
Treaty back into international debate and
hazard the priceless achievements of the
Paris conference. A course so obviously
fraught with peril will naturally be avoided
by all except those whom prejudice or pas
sion has hopelessly blinded.
It remains to be seen, however, just w’hat
the foes of the Treaty and the League can ac
complish under cover of so-called reserva
tions. Those w’ho are set in their resentment
and jealousy of the President will not give
up the fight until every resource is exhaust
ed. -lif they can carry through a destructive
amendment by calling it a reservation, they
w’ill readily adopt the milder term. There . .
reason to hope, however, that a discerning
majority of the Senators, Republicans and
Democrats alike, will defeat this subterfuge
as overwhelmingly as they did the Fall pro
posals. We do not mean, of course, such in
terpretative resolutions as are designed sim
ply to make plain America’s obligations and
rights under the Treaty and the League
Covenant. It is quite proper that ambigui
ties, if any there are, be cleared up, and that
the fundamentals of American policy be af
firmed with due emphasis, if a shadow of
doubt seems cast upon them. But this
kind of reservation, embodied in resolutions
distinct from the Treaty so as not to compli
cate it, is altogether different from the kind
tfor which the Lodges and Reeds contend.
The latter is merely a roundabout way of
-rying smend the Treaty so drastically as
-9 destroy rt and to wreck the great hopes of
which it is the haven. “Reservations” of that
animus should be resisted by every stanch
friend of c stable and righteous peace.
More significant in some respects than the
defeat otf the Fall amendments was the vote
of three hundred and seventy-two to fifty
three by which the French Chamber of
Deputies ratified the Treaty, including the
League Covenant. Premier Clemenceau
had his opponents in that body just as Presi
dent Wilson has in the Senate. But they
based their opposition upon grounds alto
gether different from those of the obstruc
tionist tfaction in the Senate. Their com
plaint w’as, not that the sovereignty of
France w’as jeopardized or her independence
in any wise involved, but that Germany had
not been rendered duly powerless to renew
the war and that the proposed reparations
were not sufficient. The noteworthy point is
that the Deputies of France, holding her in
dependence and her sovereignty as dearly as
we do ours, accept the Treaty and the
League with all their ibligations. Previously
the British House of Commons took the same
step. We are called upon to relinquish no
more privileges and to assume no more re
sponsibilities than these, our associates in the
T'ar for (freedom. Surely, as a great and
honor-loving nation we do not wish to do
teas than equal’s part in the effort to uphold
Jtbace and justjce.
yne King otf Belgium has had enough army
training no doubt to endure all the addresses
he will have to hear in America.
Seeing the South Aright.
A POINT of view highly important to
i xx Georgia and her neighbor States is
brought to notice by Mr. George D.
Dowe, of Baxley, when he says, in the course
of a most interesting article in the Manu
facturers’ Record on “Clearing Cut-Over
Lands in the Coastal Plain Section,” that
farmers in other parts of America are oft
times strangely unaware of the South’s food
producing capacity. “They know that the
South grows cotton,” he writes, “and it in
terests them not at all; they know’ about
Florida citrus fruits and trucks, Georgia
peaches, Alabama Satsumas, Mississippi figs
and Georgia pecans. . . . But they are farm
ers, and not specialists. They proceed on the
assumption that the south has set its best
foot forward when advertising for settlers,
and practically all our puolicity has been
. based on specialties.”
Thus it is that many, a planter, who if
rightly informed would leave less favored
regions and settle in the South, pictures this
territory as being bare or very scant of op
portunities for the production of the more
important food staples. The long years dur
ing which we depended on the west for grain
and meat, almost as completely as though
corn, wheat, hogs and cattle could not be
raised on our soil, still stand as the evidence
by which our resources are all too frequently
judged.
The fact is, of course, that Georgia and
adjacent States are among the earth’s most
favored places for bringing forth great stores
of food, as the record of recent years will
convince any one who investigates. But these
attainments and resources must be made
known to the world if we are duly to profit
by them. The South’s wide range of oppor
tunities rather than her specialties needs to
be emphasized.
• Whether the days are melancholy depends
on jthe state of last year’s overcoat.
The Bitter Fruitage of
Materialistic Radica 1 ism
RADICAL rule in Russia has otften been
pictured as red anarchy; and so it was
in one of its phases. But that was
merely the prologue to as rigid and cruel a
despotism as any Hohenzollern could’ have
wished. Lenine winked at violence, indeed
instigated it, because he knew that violence
would beget tyranny. The reign of which
he and his bristling brethren dreamed was to
be that oif the proletariat. Their object was,
not to do away with classes and class con
sciousness, but to draw the lines more strin
gently by bringing all other classes under the
heel of a tatterdemaltion minority. There
was to be a millennium of “the workmen,"
but they took care to make their definition
narrow enough to exclude all workmen who
did not fit into soviet theories and schemes.
The result, of course, was oligarchy of the
rankest species, and the wrecking of Russia.
It is this aspect of the situation —this be
trayal and redoubled enslavement of those
who looked to Bolshevism (for golden miracles
—that impresses observant travelers lately >n
Russia. Thus a New York World cor
respondent, Mr. Arno Dosch-Flueiot, whose
long acquaintance with the Muscovite empire
makes him a particularly competent judge of
present conditions there, writes of a recent
tour ,of his through that country: “Wher
ever I have been I have found that the Bol
sheviki left behind them industrial ruin. I
do not mean to present a picture of wrecked
factories, dirt and debris. That is rather the
picture of the anarchy on which the Bolshe
vik! rode into power. Bolshevism (itself)
is the exact opposite, a highly bureaucratic,
strictly policed state of affairs, the imposing
of a doctrine demanding implicit obedience
to the word from Moscow. . . . The more suc
cessful it has been, the drier, the more un
fertile the field. The ruin is not one of dis
order, but of too much order.”
A fatal error in communist theories of so
ciety is that in their leveling and lumping
process they would destroy or devitalize
human individuality, and so rob life of one
of its keenest urges and richest gifts. In
stead of the State being made for man, man
was made for the State, according to their
notion. They.and Prussian autocracy lead to
virtually the same end. They are equally
tyrannous, equally materialistic. Both are
deadly foes of the human spirit. Neither
can stand the test of humanity’s great needs
and great aspirations. Lenine and his crew
fancied that by abasing the burgeois or mid
dle class, they would exalt the proletariat;
that by taking away the goods of the well-to
do, they would solve the problems of the in
digent; that by putting all men on the same
economic footing, they would answer the
grim riddles that beset life. But they have
failed in even the simplest and most super
ficial part of their task.
They have failed to satisfy even the stom
achs, much less the minds and souls, of their
clamoring disciples. The industrial paradise
which they were to construct turns out to be
an industrial junk heap. The proletariat has
all the money, but “the money has no value,”
the World’s correspondent relates. The
“workmen” were given control of the factor
ies, but, rather unfortunately for all concern
ed, the factories ceased to function and pro
duce. Certain “workmen” who did not like
the way. the Bolshevik leaders were doing
and who met to remonstrate, were flung into
prison, charged with trying to start a
“counter revolution.” From their cells they
declared: ’ “We protest against the cruel op
pression exercised against the working class
which, seeing itself on the edge of an abyss,
is trying to find away to safety and deliver
ance for, Russia and the working masses.”
Yet it was in the :iame of the “working
masses” that Lenine’s faction proceeded, first
with red terrorism and then with coolly or
dered tyranny. It was in the name of “the
toilers” that they fomented class hate and set
up a rule of communism backed by bayonets.
Moreover, the bitterest denouncers of Bol
shevism’s latter stages were from the ranks
of those who had been its most qrdent
pioneers. “We declare before the workers of
Russia and of the civilized world,” runs the
statement of a group of disillusioned laborers,
“that the Bolshevik Government has betrayed
the high ideals of the proletariat revolution of
October, 1917, and has deceived the Russian
workers and peasants. We protest against
the restraints imposed upon workers
and against the attempts to take away their
rights, freedom of the press, freedom of as
sembly and inviolability of person.” And
from another group comes this heart-wrung
declaration: “Our life has become intoler
able; the factories are closed; our children
are dying of famine. Instead of bread they
give us bullets.” ’
Such are the fruits of that destructive and
materialistic radicalism which takes
divers names in divers lands, being
known in Russia as Bolshevism. It
fails, it always fails, industrially, socially
and in every respect because there is no
hHt ri L? f Just l ce and wisdom in its schemes,
J co ye te ° ÜBnes s and a certain shallow
cunning. Liberty, ’ “Equality” and “In
da.st rial Freedom” were catch-words rolling
sian d enough from the tongues oif the Rus
'■T, d . emagogues > bu t the upshot of their re
fh?os ThiZ ery ’ d ® gradation « and industrial
chaos. This ever has been and ever will be
the penalty of those who follow a leadership
which appeals to hatred and greed instead
of fair play and service.
♦ —— —
Some people refuse to be optimists even
a sTrilutT tOM * he lnfluen * a is no‘longer
a serious menace.
Ousting the Prussian Tick.
sacI h th?t 0C ?n an J ° u . rna1 ’ takj ng note of the
tact that all counties north of its own are
now virtually free from the cattle tick, urges
am? 2 a - rt i ed co 'O peration between farmers
and officials in order that the same valuable
immunity may be won for that portion of the
btate In the adjoining county of Laurens,
says the Journal, some opposition to the “dip
ping process, which is the only effective
treatment for tick infected cattle, has devel
oped. But against individual claims that
dipping has proved injurious to cows, thou
sands of owners testify to its harmlessness
and efficacy. Moreover, as our contemporary
well argues: “Even if it possible that dipping
could cause a few cows to get sick or even to
die, a much greater number will die from
the tick infection. In a short while our. county
will be entirely immune from tick and it will
not be necessary to continue the dipping.”
The newspapers of districts where this good
fight has not yet been won can do their people
no better service than to follow the example
of the Cochran Journal. Cattle raising, dairy
ing and allied industries have a wonderfully
rich future in Georgia if the Prussian tick is
eradicated. It is a matter of Government
record that since the campaign against this
pest was launched a decade or so ago, the
South has made more progess in cattle rais
ing than during the entire half century pre
ceding. This is conspicuously true of those
Georgia counties where earnest co-operation
with the State and of Federal agents has elim
inated the tick. Such efforts are wealth-sav
ing and wealth-producing.
An opportunist is a man who meets oppor
tunity half way.
Senator Lodge says the vote against the
amendments was a victory, and yet some peo
ple say Lodge is a pessimist.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919.
WHAT IS EXCHANGE? —By Frederic J. Haskin.
WASHINGTON, D. C., October I.—The
treasury department is just now wonder
ing how much the man on the street
knows about finance, how many of them ap
peciate so simple a thing as the province of
a bank, know what a bond really is, ca r . tell
what is meant by exchange.
This last term, exchange, is now causing par
ticular concern. Exchange makes it necessary
that the nations of Europe should pay a fee
for the privilege of buying goods in the United
States. The most favorably situated of these
nations pay five cents in exchange that they
may spend a dollar here, but the less favored
pay as much as fifty cents for that privilege.
The treasury department, which does its
worrying through the agency of the federal
reserve board, knows that foreigi peoples are
going to pay this tribute only so long as they
have to, and that presently ships will stop
sailing from Philadelphia to Stockholm, because
of exchange, and that factories in Youngstown
may be shutting down because of the same
taking of tribute.
This matter of exchange, in fact, is the very
cornerstone of the foreign tade situation. Our
business with all the world depends on its
readjustment. It is now badly out of order.
To understand exchange we must remember
that America was thrust by a great war into
a position of trade dominance, was taken to the
mountain top and shown the marts of the world
waiting to be taken.
Four years devoted intensively to ationing
the god of war had built for us an industrial
machine such as no nation ever before pos
sessed. The machinists we had trained refused
to go back to driving delivery wagons. Our
merchant fleet was at the deck with steam up.
We must sell, sell, sell!
This much America saw. To this program
she instinctively pledged herself. We would
sell our goods the world around. Wherever a
traveler puts his foot on a dock there he should
see a box labeled “Made in U. S. A.”
This to the average American is the whole
of the trade program. Even to the manufac
turer, the exporter, there is but th one view,
that of establishing markets for American goods.
The idea of buying abroad, of importing exten
sively into the United States, is unpopular. The
United States, it is held, should be self-support
ing. Imports should be discouraged. The im
porter is an unpatriotic, unpopular individual.
His business is stupendous, as a matter of
fact, but he is almost surreptitious about it.
The big fact not yet clearly perceived is
that, without an import trade, we can have no
permanent export trade. We will prosper for a
day and then find our goods piling up on our
shelves. This thing called exchange will get us.
And since we are a democracy, since na
tional action depends upon public understand
ing of the need, you must get this understand
ing or fail, Mr. American. You must come
to understand that trade between two coun
tries is actual exchange of goods if it is to
survive. A mere selling of goods by one
country to another is the blowing of a com
mercial bubble which can exist for but a mo
ment. You have got to buy as well as sell.
Otherwise exchange will make it impossible for
you to sell.
Before the war we sold about two billion
dollars worth of goods abroad every year, and
bought a million and a half. Out of the half
billion to our credit we paid the transportation
charge to foreign ships. Then we paid interest
on American securities that were held abroad.
Finally we added to this the money that Ameri
can tourists each year spent in Europe. These
items brought the outlay up to the income.
There was trade in its broadest sense between
CRITICS OF SPIRITISTIC MEDIA
By H. Addington Bruce
AGAIN and again in discussing with me
problems of psychical research friends
ha>e commented derisively on the “rub
bishy” character of so many alleged messages
fiom the dead received through spiritistic me
diums. In effect, these critics say:
“How sensible people can waste their time
listening to the twaddle the spirits give about
their lives on earth is quite beyond our compre
hension.
“It might he different if they told things
really worth knowing. But they everlastingly
harp on trivial episodes and incidents—the
stubbing of Jimmy’s toe, the breaking of Mary’s
comb, or the carving of Willy’s initials on a
tree.
‘This is mere drivel, of no good to anybody.
We simply must refuse to be interested in it.”
Yet, as a matter of fact, this seemingly sen
sible objection to spirit communications is not
a valid one. There may be —there are—various
good reasons for hesitating to accept such com
munications as actually coming from the dead.
But to dismiss them on the ground of their
triviality is to convict the skeptic of hasty and
loose thinking.
For in the nature of things any communicat
ing spirit must furnish satisfactory proofs of
its identity. And such proofs it can furnish
only through recourse to trivial and inconse
quential happenings in its earthly experience,
known to those with whom it is trying to com
municate.
Consider for a moment how a man, returning
to his boyhood home after years of absence,
would have to proceed to satisfy his former
friends that he really was the man he claimed
to be, not an impostor.
It would not do for him merely to call the
old friends by name. Nor would they be con
vinced if he fervently affirmed his identity and
rattled off a number of general facts pertaining
to his early life and the history of his native
place.
He would have to be more specific; he
would have to be intimately specific. He would
have to be able to go up to one man and say:
“Hello, Jack! How are you? It seems an
age, doesn’t it, since the day you stole my
clothes when I went bathing in the old swim
ming hole? Is the big pine tree still there?
And does the flicker still nest in the giant
elcj? ”
To a venerable old lady he would have to
make some such remark as:
“I’m delighted to see you, Aunt Jane. I’ve
never forgotten the buttermilk you gave me
that hot July morning I was berrying in your
pasture. The gingerbread that went with it
was simply great.”
And a third person he might salute with:
“Well, Joe, you’ve changed hardly a bit since
the time you and I used to go hunting to
gether. Do you remember the bear we got
down in Deacon Stebbins’ hollow? ’
Only by a multiplicity of trivial reminis
cences like these could the returning native son,
absent so long as to be unrecognizable, satisfy
the people of the old home town as to his
identity. And the method he has to adopt is
precisely the method a discarnate spirit
would have to adopt if able to communicate
with friends still on earth and being desirious
of convincing them of its survival of bodily
death.
Therefore, it is neither sensible nor fair to
ridicule the triviality of spirit messages. As af
fording proof of identity triviality is in
dispensable to them.
(Copyright, 1919, by the Associated Newspapers.)
SPITZBERGEN’S COAL
Spitzbergen seems about to take an impor
tant place as a new source of coal. There have
been discovered there accessible field's esti
mated to contain in excess of four billion
tons of good coal. Already, during the war,
the new riches of the island have been ex
ploited and a hundred thousand tons of coal
were exported last year. It looks as if Spitz
bergen would become one of the great Eu
ropean producers of fuel. Furthermore, im
portant natural resources in the form of iron
ore, mountain flax and copper have been dis
covered and the indications point to the pres
ence of oilfields.
the United States and foreign countries. It
balanced. The situation was satisfactory.
Then the war came on. It resulted in
Europe buying much more heavily from the
United States than formerly, and selling less to
us. It cut off such American money from
Europe as that derived from the tourist trade.
Europe did all the buying and we did all the
selling. The bala-.ee became always stronger
and stronger in our favor. Our stupendous
loans in Europe brought about temporary re
adjustment of balances, but accentuated them
in the long run, because interest has got to be
paid on those loans. Europe must always find
means with which to pay the United- States.
She must every day aggravate the exchange
situation.
She will do this, will pay a high rate of
exchange, when there is no other way. But the
world is getting back toward normal. Other
nations will soon have materials to sell. When
that days comes Europe will cease to pay the
tribute of exchange and will buy elsewhere.
Here is the way exchange worked out in
the case of Canada. Last year Canada bought
twice as much in the United States as we
bought there. Und-Jr normal conditions she
would have shipped gold to the United States
to pay her balance and exchange w'ould have
remained undisturbed. But the Canadian gold
supply had run low and an embargo had been
placed on it. In an attempt to help the ex
change situation, Canada forbade the importa
tion of luxuries. Despite this, and despite the
helpfulness of England in arranging Canadian
credits, it has been necessary for a firm in
Montreal, buying American goods, to pay a pre
mium of two per cent for a draft. This means
that it will pay $1.02 for an article, the price
of which is sl. That difference of two per cent
may mean that the order will go to England
instead of the United States. So the first step
is made toward readjusting the balance. Amer
ican export to Canada is curtailed. At the
same time an American draft for SIOO in Can
ada is worth $lO2, and this becomes an in
ducement to Americans to buy in Canada. In
this way, the United States is penalized both
ways just because she has been selling more
than she has been buying. In this way a basic
law of trade tends to force conditions back to
normal, back to that ideal state when buying
and selling between nations just balances.
The Canadian case has been the easiest we
have had to meet. At one time last year Italy
had bought so havil over here, and we had
bought so lightly in Italy, that it was almost
impossible to get exchange. There was no
American paper in Italian banks. The charge
for exchange at one time ran as high as 100
per cent. This meant that, if an Italian man
ufacturer bought SIO,OOO worth of cotton in
New Orleans he would have to pay a premium
of SIO,OOO on his draft, which would make the
cotton cost him $20,000. Under these circum
stances it is likely that he would buy his cot
ton in Egypt or India as soon as conditions
permitted. Thus would the United States lose
the business. She would keep on losing to one
buyer and another until virtual equality between
purchases here and in Italy was established.
She must either sell less or buy more, or
both, in establishing that balance.
Despite the great loans we have made to
France there has been a constant exchange
charge against us of from five to ten per cent.
Spain has had to pay a premium of fifty per
cent for an American draft. These nations will
pay this premium only while it is impossible
to get materials elsewhere. There are other
nations anxious forth: trade of these countries
on whose exchange there is no premium at
all. But we are a creditor nation in the most
important markets of the world, and this fact
penalizes our exports.
THE HIGH PRICE OF HORSE SENSE
—♦ —
By Dr. Frank Crane
What costs nothing, we think is worth
nothing.
Air is free. There’s a sign on the door
of the Universe, “Free Air.” Hence it never
occurs to us that it is precious. But if we
were shut up in a room where we could
not get it we would offei 1 for it a million
dollars a noseful, if we had the million.
Water is free. Hence we don’t realize
its worth. But if we -were perishing of
thirst in the desert, a cup of water would
be worth its weight in diamonds.
The actors’ strike is supposed to be set
tled. After spending, so it is estimated,
around three million dollars.
It was settled the simplest way in the
l world. By the injection of one dose of
I horse sense.
That is, the two sides Got Together.
Which is the only way to settle any
thing.
They Got Together, treated each other as
gentlemen and not as villains or lunatics,
assumed that both sides wanted to be fair,
and, presto! it -was all over.
The funny part of it is that this very
proposal was made to the contending par
i ties at the beginning of the quarrel.
Then they might have had peace for
j nothing. For not one red cent.
But they had too much fireworks in their
i system, and had to get it out. They had
to threaten, scorn, declaim, hate, call names,
pose, give ultimatums, and go through the
whole usual lines which are written for
pride in the drama of fate. After they
got through the show a happy thought
struck them. They were human beings. So
j they met, talked, and settled it.
| Over and over the world goes through
i the same stupid round.
If the nations in 1912 had got together
and talked things over as human beings,
there would have been no war.
But it took 200 billion dollars and 10
million lives to get horse sense.
That’s all a League of Nations is—horse
sense.
Europd knows it now, because it has
paid for it and is on the brink of bank
ruptcy. The U. S. A. doesn’t seem to know
it yet. We have paid a lot, but not enough.
The blatherskites are still functioning
among us, to keep us hoity-toity and away
from meeting our neighbor nations in a
League.
Maybe it will take a few hogsheads more
blood and money to bring us to it, but to
it some day we must come.
Any strike, anywhere, could be settled
by the simple horse sense of getting to
gether, and co-operating, instead of fighting.
Climb down! Cross out of your vocab
ulary the phrase “nothing to arbitrate.”
Get together. Meet, man to man. Everybody
—nations, corporations, unions, families.
When I look back over the ludicrous spec
tacle of the theater folk spending three mil
lion dollars and creating lifelong feuds, to
get what was offered them in the first place
for nothing, and when I see the senate of
the United States barking and bristling now
at that which they will be w’agging their
tales over in ten years from now, I am
forced to the conclusion that what is the
matter with the country is not the high cost
of beef and bread, but the high cost of
i horse sense.
(Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
TOMMY AND JEANNE
In the early days of the war the inhabi
tants of Rouen, already firmly convinced that
the British were mad, conceived them to be
more eccentric than usual when an occasional
Tommy was seen placing a bouquet otf flowers
at the base of the Jeanne d’Arc memorial.
A flower woman, who had made a considerable
sale of flowers to be laid at the foot of the
maid. finally solved the puzzling problem by
explaining to her countrywomen that the
Tommies mistook the statue of Joan for one
ctf Victoria.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Addresses in which it was declared that
war between Japan and the United States
is a contingency not to be considered, and
assertions that the future of the two coun
tries lies in cultivating economic relations
and friendly associations, were heartily
applauded at a luncheon given recently in
Tokio by the American-Japan society.
Viscount Kaneko, member of the privy
council and formerly special representative
of Japan to the United States, presided. The
luncheon, which was given for former United
States Senator Burton, of Ohio; Lieutenant
Colonie Carl F. Baldwin, the American mil
itary attache, who is leaving Japan soon for
Washington, and P. D. Blake, an American
business leader in Japan for thirty years,
who is going to London, was attended by a
large number of Japanese and representative
Americans.
Without directly mentioning Shantung,
the speeches were based on the feeling in
the United States arising from that ques
tion.
Rumanian troops have seized a big Ger
man biplane carrying 300,000,000 paper
rubles (nominally $150,000,000) and a
miniature, but complete, printing press, at
Hotin, Bessarabia, according to the Ru
manian bureau at Berne.
The biplane, which was en route to Mos-!
cow, was forced to land at Hotin because :
of a leak in the gasoline tank. It was i
manned by four German officers, who are
said to have resented their arrest. The
rubles were all said to have been new
notes.
The Univresity of Paris will inaugurate,
on November 3, classes organized especially
for foreign students to continue for four
months. An attempt will be made to give
the students a general idea of French his
tory, its literature, its geography, its philo
sophical and social doctrines, and its art.
English and Spanish will be the two for
eign language used.
Convinced that the 16,000,000 women voters
of the country will determine the result of
the next presidential election, th, executive
committee of the Democratic National commit
tee closed its.series of conferences in Atlantic
City, N. J., by admitting women to its party
councils on an equal footing with the men.
Not only was a resolution passed providing
for the expansion of the executive committee
so that the membership shall include seventeen
women, but it was decreed that at the forth
coming meeting of the national committee, at
which the time and place for the next Demo
cratic National convention will be determined,
the woman associate in each state of the Na
tional committeeman from that state shall be
present and shall have the same rights and the
same powers as her male colleague and an
equal vote as well. Should the two represen
tatives of a state differ, that state will be re
corded as casting a half vote each way.
The collection of articles of historical in
terest at the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md., already containing many specimens of
great interest and value, is being augmented
by the receipt of trophies of the world war.
In order that the different articles be prop
erly cared for, and that data concerning them
be collected and put in permanent form, Rear
Admiral Archibald H. Scales has named Pro
fessor Sidney Gunn, of the department of Eng
lish, curator.
Perhaps the most interesting and important
of the new trophies is the bronze statuette of
Joan of Arc presented by the people of Brest,
France, to the navy of the United States
as a mark .of the relations which existed be
tween them and the personnel of the navy
while Brest was used as the principal port for
the landing and re-embarkation of American
troops. The statuette is by Mercier, the emi
nent French sculptor. The presentation was
made to Vice-Admiral H. B. Wilson, U. S. N.,
naval commander of the port, and the statuette
was sent by him to the Naval Academy.
Authority has been given commanding gen
erals of military departments to furnish troops
necessary for the protection of lives and prop
erty in case of disorders in the limits of their
departments. Such protection can be urnished
only upon request from the proper state offi
cials, the instructions from Secretary Baker read.
It was explained tha! the action was taken
to obviate the necessity of department com
manders referring :uch requests to the depart
ment with consequent danger of the disorders
getting out of control before action could be
taken.
Increase of approximately 15 per cent in
revenues collected from the Panama canal is
provided in a bill changing the system of meas
urement of vessels passing through the canal,
which has been passed by the national house
and sent to the senate.
Opposition to the measure came largely from
Pacific coast members, who complained that
charges on deck cargoes, resulting from the
change of measurement rules, would work hard
ship on west coast shippers, particularly lum
ber interests.
The bill, which was passed bv a vote of
264 to 14, directs that the Panama canal rules
of measurement, based on actual earning ca
pacity of a vessel, will govern the levy of tolls
instead of net tonnage. Existing toll rates are
unchanged by the bill, but the canal measure
ment rules will increase the basis on which
these charges are computed.
Cardinal Mercier, the primate of Belgium
now in the United States, is cited in the French
army order just made public announcing the
award to him of the French war cross, which
was presented in person by President Poincare
while visiting the cardinal at Malines last July.
The order reads:
“During the hours of depression, stress and
anguish, he was the- protector and spokesman
of the population, and at Malines expressed in
undying words the thoughts and ideals of op
pressed Belgium.”
NATIONAL REPENTANCE—By the Rev. Charles Stelzle
Jesus’ disciples had vainly tried to relieve
a poor sufferer from the torments of an evil
spirit.
Then they called Jesus to help them, who
quickly worked a miracle otf healing.
And the disciples wondered why they had
not succeeded, and Jesus said in reply to their
query:
“This kind goeth not out but by prayer
and fasting.”
The disciples hadn’t taken their task
seriously esough.
They had been eager to help, but power
does not come through eagerness alone.
An evil spirit is in the world today.
It has shown itself in war and pestilence, in
labor conflicts and in personal controversies,
which have torn men apart and made them
bitter enemies.
And men in certain groups have gotten to
gether to talk about how they might rid the
world of this demon of hate and destruction.
They have appropriated campaign funds of
millions of dollars and adopted resolutions
and formed organizations to sweep out of our
country every element which deprives us of
peace and happiness.
But—“this kind goeth not out but by
praver and fasting.”
The evil is too deep-rooted and strongly
entrenched.
It has been feeding too long on the life
blood off the nation. It has sapped its
strength until in some of its parts the nation
F
The action of Mayor James S. Crawford, of
Duquesne, Pa., in imposing a fine of SIOO on
Strike Organizer William Z. Foster and on an
assistant for a violation of an ordinance of the
city of Duquesne in holding a public meeting
without a permit, was sustained in an oninion
handed down in county court at Pittsburg by
Judge Kennedy.
®the court found that the mayor did not
abuse his discretion in imposing the fine, and
in reply to the defendant’s contention that the
action of the Duquesne executive was an
abridgement of their right to free speech, the
court said:
“The right of free speech is a sacred one;
it well deserves protection, but there are places
and times and subjects at and of which, the
right of free speech, sacred thought it may be,
must yield to the greater one of the society
of the citizens < f the commonwealth, their
homes, and their property.
“The law of the land is that at such time
even the right of free speech must be sub
servient for the time being to the police power
of the state, which is these cases is vested in
the municipality and by it in its executive
head.”
Unless the United States supreme court re
verses the Ohio state courts, the action of the
legislature in ratifying the federal prohibition
amendment will go to a popular referendum at
I the November election.
I The state supreme court has affirmed lower
' state courts in dismissing the petition of
George S. Hawk, of Cincinnati, against Secre
j tary of State Smith, in which Hawk sought to
compel the secretary of state to refuse to ac
cept petitions filed by the Ohio Home Rule
association calling for a referendum and to pre
vent him from placing the referendum on the
election ballots.
Officials and attorneys of the Anti-Saloon
league have announced that they will appeal
the case to the United States supreme court.
Should the highest court not decide the case
before the election, the question will be voted
on. On the other hand, an overruling decision
by that court would invalidate the vote, it is
asserted.
Judge Robinson alone dissented from the
majority decision.
A ten-hour work day for all productive in
dustries in order that farm labor may be on
a parity with all other forms of labor was de
manded at the conference of representatives of
the State Farm Bureau Federations of Mich
igan, Ohio, Missouri, lowa, Nebraska and In
diana, at Indianapolis a few days ago. Shorter
working hours only reduce production and in
creases the cost of living, the farmers said.
King Albert of Belgium has decided to cut
Chicago and Milwaukee from the itinerary of
his American tour on account of pro-German
ism . in those cities. The decision did not
surprise official Washington. After the
mayor of Milwaukee had publicly declared he
would not invite King Albert to that city,
concluding his remarks with “To hell with
kings,” no official considered including the
Wisconsin metropolis in the itinerary.
So far as Chicago is concerned, the bitter
campaign against Mayor Thompson on the
ground of disloyalty is still fresh in the minds
of officials in Washington. The newspapers
of Brussels published the facts regarding the
Chicago campaign and they are well known
to King Albert and Queen Elizabeth.
Germany has a new escutcheon, from which
the Hohenzollern arms have been eliminated.
It consists of a black one-headed eagle on a
golden yellow field. The “new” eagle, which
has shed its erstwhie imperial crown and col
lar, is not a rampant bird, and would look
sedate enough in its sitting posture but tor
the color of its beak, tongue and talons,
which are red.
Miss Hannah Jane Patterson, of Pittsburg,
Pa., has been appointed temporary assistant
in the office of Secretary of War Baker. She
was awarded the distinguished service medal
of the United States at the close of the war,
because of her work as director of the wom
an’s committee of the Council of National
Defense.
The Prince of Wales, who is now touring
Canada, will go to Washington in about a
month for a visit of three days, but he will
not make a tour of the United States, Mayor
Babcock, of Pittsburg, has been Informed by
Chairman Porter of the house foreign affairs
committee.
“I am reliably informed,” said Mr. Porter,
“that it is the wish of the British govern
ment that the Prince of Wales, upon leaving
Canada, should spend but three days in Wash
ington, returning to New York thereafter,
from whence he sails for Europe, and that a
tour of the United States should not be
made.”
Many casualties have resulted, it is feared,
from the floods caused by excessive rains
throughout Spain, particularly in the city of
Cartagena, the lower part of which is under
water. First reports gave twenty-five casual
ties in Cartagena, and it is feared that there
have been many more victims, especially in
the suburbs. The waters swept merchandise
from the quays and caused great damage to
goods in stores and warehouses. Foodstuffs
are becoming scarce and a warship has been
ordered to Cartagena to replenish the sup
plies of the city.
Damage from the floods is widespread, par
ticularly in the provinces of Valencia, Ali
cante and Murcia. Railroads are out in many
places. Traffic in Valencia, a city of almost
200,0 00 inhabitants, is stopped. Telegraph
and telephone wires are down. No newspa
pers are published in many places.
Four villages are isolated, as well as many
farms in the open country, to which it is
impossible to send help.
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After reading Mr. Bullitt on the peace treaty
and Mr. Foster on his no-government plan, we
are convinced that some people have no sense
of honor.
I has become weak and almost helpless. It
has stirred the passions of men, driving them
I madly over precipices and through rivers in
their hatreds and their animosties.
“This kind goeth not out but by prayer
and fasting.”
Think not that a hastily-called convention
or a carelessly signed petition or a flippantly
expressed conviction ’ill rid us of “radicals
and “Bolsheviki” and mdbs an strikes and
I wars.
Our nation needs to get down upon its
knees and cry out:
“God be merciful to me—a sinner!”
We have too long been indifferent to the
sufferings of our fellows. We too
negligent oif the condition of the poverty
stricken. We have been deaf to the bitter
cry of little children.
And now that we’ve been relieved from
the strain of war, and our eyes have been
s even half-opened to the horror of what we’ve
passed through, we’ve become almost hysteri
! cal as the fruits of men’s passions and self
i ishness pass before us as a horrible night-
■ mare.
“This kind goeth not out but by prayer and
fasting.”
It is no time for a cheap “patriotism” that
neglects the great fact of national sin. It is
■ foolish to indulge in childish patter about
“democracy” that ignores the very elements
cif brotherhood and justice. It is futile to
cry out “Peace, peace,” when there is no
k peace.