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Economy in Government.
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IN these days when the public is de
manding less extravagance and more
efficiency in the conduct of the Govern
ment, any constructive suggestion that is
calculated to better conditions deserves
thoughtful consideration, and to this fact,
we feel sure, may be attributed the attention
that has been aroused by the proposal to re
organize and change the name of the Interior
Department to the Department of Public
Works.
There can be no economy where there is
Inefficiency. The inefficient workman, con
tractor or Government official is an expen
sive burden at half the price of the efficient
workman, contractor or official. It is futile
to talk of economical administration of the
Government or any other business that is
honeycombed with inefficiency, and ineffi
cient methods are just as wasteful and ex
travagant of time and money and energy as
inefficient employes, overseers and directors.
The Federal Government numbers among
its officials and subordinates many recognized
authorities in the special line of work in
which they are engaged. This is, indeed,
fortunate. But the advantage that the Gov
ernment should enjoy from the help of these
authorities is neutralized by the methods and
conditions under which many of them are
compelled to operate. Authorities—scientists,
architects, engineers, etc.—are handicapped
by inefficient methods. The economies affect
ed by their knowledge and capacity are lost
in the waste and extravagance of department
al red tape and duplication of effort.
The Congressional Directory offers abund
ant evidence of the duplication that exists
'in Washington, and persons familiar w-ith
the detailed workings of the several execu
tive departments understand and are stag
gered by the waste of money and energy that
ensues in consequence of this lack of co-or
dination.
There are twenty-nine bureaus and agen
cies of the Government engaged in construc
tion work of one kind or another, while four
different executive departments are engaged
in fuel tests. Instead of working in concert
and harmony, as one might suppose, the sev
• rai bureaus and agencies, though engaged
in the same general line of endeavor, are
actually competing with one another. Re
cent. disclosures have exposed instances
where one bureau has bid up the price of a
commodity required by the Government, for
fear that another bureau might get it.
Senator Jones, of Washington, is author
of a bill now pending in Congress that is
3 gnc< ! to remedy the evil in so far as pos-
- e - '! at measure proposes to change the
name of the Interior Department to the
Department of Public Works and to redis
tribute among the several Executive Depart
ments many of the powers, functions and
duties that are now performed by the Interior
Department. It proposes further to relieve
other executive departments of certain powers
and functions and delegate them to the De
partment of Public Works.
The Interior Department under the pres
ent arrangement deals with most of the Gov
ernment activities of engineering and highly
technical interest. Other executive depart
ments, however, contain divisions and bu
reaus that are devoted to technical and en
gineering matters. The Jones bill seeks to
co-ordinate these technical activities in a
single Executive Department—the Depart
ment of Public Works.
The Patent Office, the Bureau of Pensions,
the Bureau of Education, the Bureau of In
dian Affairs, excepting alone its engineering
and constructive work, St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital for Insane am. several other non
technical agencies are transferred from the
Interior Department to the other Executive
Departments whose work is more nearly akin
to the activities of the respective bureaus.
The Construction division of the Treasury,
river and harbor improvements, the 7 Super
vising Architect’s Office, the Coast and Geo
detic Survey, the Bureau of Public Roads
and many other engineering and technical
activities are taken from the Executive De
partments with which they are now identi
fied and placed in the Department of Public
Works.
It is the contention of Senator Jones and
the friends of the proposed legislation that
its enactment, resulting in the reorganiza
tion of the Interior Department under an
other name, will make for efficiency and
economy. Duplication of effort, extravagant
expenditure of energy and money will be
eliminated by the operation of the bill, they
insist. The engineering and construction
work of the Government will be placed on a
more business-like basis. The co-ordination
of these activities under a single executive
head will be reflected in improved public
service at less expense.
The suggestion contained in the Jones bill
admittedly is constructive. It is apparently
a step in the right direction, and if it will ac
complish- one-half the good its advocates
claim for it, obviously Congress should give
it thoughtful consideration.
The Government and the Strike.
TIE issue involved in the unfortunate
bituminous coal strike is bigger and
more vital than the strike itself. It
is a question, as we see it, not as to whether
the people are to freeze during the winter,
but whether the ultimate power of the Fed
eral Government can be usurped and disre
garded at will by any group or class.
We cannot but believe that the great mass
of the people recognize and appreciate the
srravitv of the. issue involved, and. nv the same
toiren, w'e oeiieve that cne peopie, regardless
of their affiliations or sympathies, will sup
port the government in its determination to
sustain its power.
, That, in a nut shell, is the question involved
in the legal proceedings instituted before
Anderson, at Indianapolis, by the
United States Government, and that, in a
nut shell, was the question answered so co-
gently and emphatically by President Wilson
i in his appeal to the coal miners.
The country has resounded with echoes
approving the President’s declaration that the
proposed strike was immoral and illegal—
echoes of a character and from sources that
can leave no question as to the attitude of
the millions who have no immediate interest
in the disputes of the miners and the mine
owners, except in so far as the price of fuel
to the consumer ultimately may be affected.
It is of no consequence to them in 'the present
circumstances, whether the miners are de
manding the pay of an ambassador, with
thirty hours a week labor, or are willing to
accept a more modest compensation with a
forty-eight-hour work week.
But the people do feel a vital interest, not
so much in their own welfare, per se, as in
the power and ability of the federal Gov
ernment to protect the public welfare. The
question transcends in importance the dis
pute of any class or group, regardless of their
avocation .in life. It is far more consequential
than the health and comfort of the people,
which are threatened by the suspension of the
mining activities. It involves the stability
of the Government, its power to enforce the
law’ of the land, upon which our liberties rest.
Unquestionably the courts of the land are
well within their constitutional rights when
they assert their powers to protect the pub
lic welfare. The Constitution of the United
States is clear and specific on this point, and
there can fie nd serious contention that a
strike which threatens, on the eve of'w'inter,
a suspension of- coal-mining operators, with
all of its accompanying discomforts and hor
rors, is inimical to the public welfare.
The rights and wrongs of the case were
admirably stated by the President, who spoke,
also, of the duties and powers and intention?
of the Government. Mr. Wilson accepted
the challenge of the coal miners. The head
of the miners' organization made no effort at
concealment. The demands of his organiza
tion must be accepted or there would follow
a strike that would throttle the industries
of the Nation and cause untold suffering and
misery among millions of innocent and help
less people.
President Wilson answered this ultimatum
calmly, but no less emphatically. The pro
posed strike, he said, is not only immoral
but illegal, and he added that the United
States Government would not permit the
miners to carry out their threats. The in
junction granted by Judge Anderson at In
dianapolis is the logical consequence.
The Government doesn’t propose to sit
calmly and permit any class or group to pre
cipitate a national disaster such as would
follow inevitably if the coal-mining operations
in the United States should cease for any
extended period. The right of workmen to
strike is not involved in the litigation, nor
is it to be questioned by the Government in
the injunction proceedings, so that it is un
likely that the denunciatory statements of
Acting President John L. Lewis, of the United
Mine Workers, and his associates about the
“abrogation of rights, etc.,’’ will inspire a
great deal of sympathy.
As a matter of fact, the proposed strike of
the coal miners invites attention to a piece
of war-time legislation that is still on the
statute books and which, it may be urged, is
applicable to the present situation. We refer
to this provision in the Lever War Food
Control Act:
“That any person who conspires, com
bines, agrees or arranges with any oth
' er person to limit the facilities for
i transporting, producing, manufactur
: ing. supplying, storing or dealing in any
necessaries; to restrict the supply of
i any ..ccessaries, to restrict the distribu
tion thereof, be ned not exceeding 10,-
000 oi be imprisoned for not not more
than two years, or both.”
It is the contention of many learned lawyers
in Washington and elsewhere that under this '
statute the leaders of the proposed strike 1
might be indicted, prosecuted and impris
oned. i
We do not believe, however, that the Gov
ernment will invoke this law in dealing with
the present situation, but will rely upon its
recognized powers to protect the public wel
fare, at the same time continuing through
the proper channels efforts to bring about
a satisfactory settlement of the questions at
dispute between the miners and the mine
owners.
The Georgia Cotton Bank,
AUNCHED under circumstances of the
, most promising encouragement, the
L
organization of the proposed Georgia
, Cotton Bank and Trust Corporation appears
I to be going forward rapidly, with fresh stock
i subscriptions coming daily to Governor Dor
sey, who took the leadership in the move
ment.
The Governor states that he values es
pecially the assurances of approval and co
operation received from bankers, showing
that their view of the State’s agricultural in
terests is broad and liberal, and that they are
not disposed to resent the entrance into the
banking business of a bank to be owned by
the farmers and operated primarily in their ,
interest.
The Federal ’ Reserve Bank of Atlanta,
which is one of twelve located at strategic
points over the country, is a great reservoir
of credit to be employed in carrying on the
business of the community. This, reservoir
of credit is not limited, but is capable of ex
pansion to any point necessary for the con
duct of business. Banks are the pipe lines
connecting the community’s business with
the reservoir. National banks are required
to be; state banks are invited and urged to
be.
Georgia farmers and those of other states ;
in the cotton belt, generallj’ speaking, are
not enjoying the benefits of this unlimited
reservoir of credit to anything like the full
extent contemplated by the framers of the
wonderful Federal Reserve system, for the
simple reason that comparatively few state
banks have connected themselves, like pipes
to the reservoir, by joining as members of
the Federal Reserve Bank.
A national bank affords direct connection
between its customers and the reservoir. So
also does a state bank—provided it is a mem
ber of the Federal Reserve Bank. But a
state bank not a member of the system can
only afford its customers an indirect con
nection with the credit reservoir, and in
direct dealings increase the interest rates its
customers must pay.
The Georgia Cotton Bank and Trust Cor
poration is to be a membei’ of the Federal
Reserve Bank, Its plan of organization, its
charter and by-laws, have been examined by
Chairman McCord and Governor Wellborn,
the heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta, and they have pronounced it eligible
to membership. It will make itself, first of
• all, a direct connection between its customers
, and the great, unlimited reservoir of credit
! standing here at the disposal of the farmers
of Georgia and neighboring states.
By this membership and direct connection,
utilizing to the fullest extent of its resources
the facilities afforded by the Federal Reserve
Bank, the Georgia Cotton, Bank and Trust
Corporation will be able to give the farmers
of Georgia an impressive demonstration of
what their government ..is prepared to do for
them in the way of financing their products,
especially their cotton.
Such a demonstration ought to result, and
probably will result, in a general and insis
i tent demand on the part of farmers that their
j local state banks with which they do business
j shall join as members of the Federal Reserve
i Bank. Hundreds of state banks in Georgia
are not Every one of them ought
1 to be a direct pipe-line connection between its
i customers and the reservoir of credit here in
TFTE ATLANTA SESrt-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919.
THE VALUE OF BONDS —By Frederic J. Haskins
•ASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 31.—Every day
some scores of people from Tampa or
Tacoma, from Providei.ee or Pueblo, or
w
from some other point on the big map of the
most prosperous nation on earth, write letters
to the treasury department at Washington, and
ask advice as to tafe investments for the
moneys that are accumulating in their pockets.
That department does not want to put itself
in the position of unduly pushing its own
wares, but it has a lot of confidence in the
government securities that are kicking about,
and really feels that an opportunity to profit
on an investment in those securities is about
as good a thing as one should want. If prop
erly pushed, treasury officials will reveal a
situation which makes it look as though an in
vestor might go far and fare worse than b\
purchasing government bonds.
In all there are ten varieties of war bonds
on the market. The government has none of
them for sale. They are already sold. They
are now owned by the people. The govern
ment makes no profit by their rise or fall. It
has got to pay interest on them at par and
has got to retire them at maturity. It is all the
same to the government if they sell at ninety
or a hundred and twenty.
The first Liberty bonds issued drew the
lowest rate of interest. They were three and
a half bonds. Strange to say, of all the issues
this is the one that is today bringing the high
est price. These three and a halfs are now
selling above par. The reason for this is
that they are exempt from income tax. Rich
folks whose surplus income goes largely into
the coffers of Uncle Sam buy these bonds and
are allowed to keep the whole three and a
half per cent. They are a good buy for the
rich folks, but they would be the worst buy
in the lot for a poor man who is not paying a
high rate of income tax.
It is peculiar that the Fourth Liberty Loan
issue, which pays four and a quarter per cent
interest, sells way below par. It is'the cheap
est of the government securities on the market.
It sells around ninety-four. It is not exempt
from income tax, and so is not so good for
the rich man. It is fine, however, for the poor
man. It is worth more than ninety-four. The
reason it is cheap is largely due to the fact
that there is so much of it. It was the big
issue. There is six billion dollars’ worth of it.
There is always a certain per cent of bond
holders who. are forced to sell for one reason
or another. Os a big issue there are more
holders who put their bonds on the market.
The old law of supply and demand works and
the price is run down. The Fourth Liberty
Loan spur and a Quarter, at the present price,
pays 4.77 per cent on the investment.
The bankers’ favorite of the Liberty bonds
is the third four and a quarter. These bonds
mature in ten years. They are selling a little
below par. The interest is good and the early j
maturity insures a profit on the buy. At the
present market price they figure to yield 4.87
on the money put into them.
Then there are the second fours and a
quarter. They are the buy of them all that
just now yields the highest return on the in
vestment They sell around ninety-four. The :
government has the privilege of retiring them
in 1927, and will probably do so. This means i
that there will be a profit of six cents on each
dollar. This added to the interest that will be
collected in the meantime means that these,
government bonds are today a 5.18 per cent
investment, which is mighty good for the bonds,
of the government which is the most financially
sound of any in the world.
These figures are based on the known fact of
the rate of interest paid on these bonds, and
the known figures at which they will be re
tired. There is nothing speculative in gov
ernment bonds bought at these figures. One
knows exactly what his returns w T be.
A GOOD WORD EOR ALL —By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory
If You Search Diligently, Some Good
Can Be Found in the Worst of People.
In one of the most beautiful towns in New
•England, resting like a veritable gem upon its
terraces by Penobscot bay, there lived, in other
days, a grand old Methodist clergyman who
was greatly beloved by everybody in all the
region round about.
This dear old father in Israel was in great
demand at funerals; for no matter what the
character of the deceased might have been, he
always managed, in some way, to say something
GOOD about him.
There lived in the same town a notoriously
worthless character whom we will call John
Doe, who spent most of his time hanging
around the engine house. Doe was a fine
driver, and every time there was a fire alarm
he drove the horses to the fire for the sake
of what WHISKEY he COULD GET TO DRINK
DURING THE CONFLAGRATION.
When Doe paid the last debt to Nature his
obsequies were attended by a mighty throng,
anxious to find out what good things the old
minister would have to say about so worthless
a person.
When the prayer had been made and the
hymns sujpg, the white-haired old clergyman
arose, and after a few remarks about the short
ness of life and the certainty of death, said, in
tones fairly vibrant with sympathetic emotion,
“Brethren, our departed friend had his failings,
but everybody knows that he was a MIGHTY
HANDY MAN AT A FIRE.”
Dear old minister! They couldn’t stump
him. He found something good to say even
about John Doe.
The choice spirits of the ages, those whose
lines and words rule us today, and will ever
the Federal Bank, waiting to be tap
ped for the supply of the agricultural and
general business requirements of the com
munity. Every state bank that professes to
be in sympathy with the welfare and im
proved prosperity of its farmer-customers
ought to prove its professions by joining the
Federal Reserve Bank.
The Federal Reserve Bank law goes
farther to accommodate farmers than any
other class of business. A merchant's paper,
a manufacturer’s paper, a contractor’s pa
per, must not run longer than ninety days I
and is expected to be paid in full at maturity, j
But a farmer’s paper can run six months with
the privilege of one renewal.
Even were the Georgia Cotton Bank and
Trust Corporation to accomplish nothing
more than to educate the farmers to a full
realization of the financial assistance placed
at their disposal in the Federal Reserve
Bank system, it would abundantly justify its
existence, assuming that such a realization
would result in a demand for state banks to
place themselves in a position of complete
service and usefulness by joining the system.
But this is merely one of the many lines
of service contemplated in the plans of the
proposed bank. It plans to eugage exten
sively in warehouse operations, export op
erations’ and marketing operations. Its pos
sibilities along those lines are beyond cal
culation. A mammoth cotton bank in each
cotton state, all linked together in a chain,
ought to be able to compel standardization of
warehouses, to extend whatever credits were
necessary in the next decade to foreign buy
ers of cotton, to establish direct dealings be
tween the growers and spinners, to put an
end to enormous wastes in the baling and
handling of cotton, o enforce uniformity of
grades and get for the growers the full mar
ket value of their staple.
Never in the past have general conditions
and circumstances been so propitious for the
banding together of the cotton growers in
cne gigantic concert of action along lines
efficiency. With a strong organization and
with banking facilities affording them the
utmost benefits to be derived from the Fed
eral Reserve Bank system, they can make
themselves what they deserve to be—the
most prosperous, the best educated and the
most highly cultured farmers on the f£ce of
the earth.
But there is a speculative element in the
purchase of government bonds. Before the
war, for instance, this governme t was abld*
to sell its bonds at par when they bore inter
est at the rate of three per cent. When a
nation is at war, no matter how strong it may
be, its securities will not sell as readily as in
times of peace. It must offer higher rates of
interest. The United States offered.those rates
of interest. It sold most of its bonds around
four and a half. It will continue to pay that
four and a half until their maturity, which will
be ten, twenty and thirty years.
If it is granted that, after we have returned
to normal conditions, tl.e rate of interest the
government will have to pay will be as high
as three and a half pet cent, there will still
be a handsome interest premium on these long
time loans. It can hardly fail to be true that
the prices of these bonds will rise in the open
market. One of the Liberty Loan bonds can
sell at 120 and yet vield a three per cent re
turn to the government. Those wise in finance
believe that 120 will be about the normal price
of the best of these bonds two or three years
from now. If one buys at ninety-five today
and sells at 120 three y ars from now, he will
have cleared $25 on each hundred d >llar bond.
In the meantime, he will have secured interest
on his investment.
The financial authorities cite ‘the facts of
history. In the Civil war government six per
cent bonds were issued and sold at eighty-three.
At the end of the war they vzent to 118 and
finally reached 126. In the Spanish-American
war three per cent bonds were sold at par,
and in a year had gone to 110. British consuls
have always been cheap when England was at
war, and high in times of peace. Germa., bonds
sold at seventy-eight during the Franco-Prussian
war, despite the fact that Germany was winning
all the time, and went to ninety-eight soon
after peace was restored. If the financial ex
perience of nations in wars of the past are in
dications of what may be expected, our issues
should gain twenty points in the next few
years.
So the treasury department thinks no in
vestor can make a wiser choice than govern
ment securities. It beli-eves that any man with
money in his pocket wi'l fare handsomely if
he goes to his banker and says: “Here are
my savings. Put them in Liberty Loan bonds.”
As a matter of fact, many people are buy
ing them. When, on the New York stock ex
change, the bond business of she day amounts
to fifteen million, twelve million of ,c is likely
to be government securities. The only reason
why the price has not gone sky-rocketing is
because there is so much of this paper in ex
istence, so much of it offered for sale. When
it begins to settle down deeper into the safety
deposit vaults of the nation, to disappear from
the counters, the price will rise.
When you buy a Liberty bond, the govern
ment warns, do not put it in a tin box or a
pigeonhole at home. It . may be stolen or
burned up, and you would probably be unable
to recover its value. Leave it in your bank.
Almost any bank will keep your bonds withoqt
any charge. Many of them will clip the cou
pons as they mature and credit them to your
account. They are safe in the bank.
And, finally, the government calls attention
to another form of investment it offers—Treas
ury Savings Certificates. One may buy 'a
Treasury Savings Certificate whenever he has
a sum of money from fifty to a thousand dol
lars. They are for sale at all first and second
class postoffices, and any banker will take your
order for one. It will pay you four and a
quarter to four and a half per cent. It is reg
istered and cannot be lost. Whenever you
want your money on it you can cash it any
where. It is like getting a hundred dollar bill
on which interest is paid. You might as well
keep your extra money working.
rule us, always managed to find good and
beauty in the most woithless and despised of
their fellowmen.
Epictetus, Jesus of Nazareth, Francis of As
sisi, Finelon, Emerson, J-ongfellow, Lincoln,
saw no ugliness in anybody; or, to speak more
correctly, saw everywhere under the superficial
and transient ugliness the embryo of the eternal
loveliness.
And upon that potential beauty and good
ness those great masters placed the grand em
phasis, saying next to nothing of the otfier
things.
There is no place in the world for the “ser
pent tongue.” It were well if such tongues
were forever paralyzed, to wag no more while
the world stands.
There is no justification for it, since it is
next to impossible to find a human being of
whom only evil can be spoken. Os the worst
person it is possible to say something good.
. Speaking of the great martyr president, some
: friends waited on him one day to tell him what
a bad man Stanton was, how he felt nothing'
but contempt for the president, and so on
“Maybe you are telling me the truth. And now
1 am going to tell you some truth: Stanton is
a mighty good secretary of war.”
Tske the hint from Lincoln and instead of
harpmg on the bad things about people try
hard to find something good to say of them.
Get out of the fault-finding habit and grow
into much finer and more profitable habit of
dwelling upon the goad points of men and
measures.
Speak of people i- >uch way that the <i>:i
■ can shine on you without wanting to get be
! hind a cloud. ’ ,
! (Copyright, 1919.)
| QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A boy of seven was lately sent to a board-
I ing school, according to a London paper, and
prior to his departure he was instructed by
his parents to write long letters to them, with
all the news about himself, the school and
his little companions. So far his communica
tions have been noteworthy mainly for brevity
and a finely impersonal touch. His latest
reads: “My dear Father and Mother—Do you
know that salt is made up of two deadly
poisons? Your loving son, John.”
An Irish lady well known to society con
tributed to the gayety of nations the other
evening by dashing into the nursery and re
proving her eldest born in manner following:
I “I just wish your father was at home some
: evening to see how you behave when he is
out.”
Often he returned home late—so late that
when wifey asked the time he'd murmur:
I “Oh, about 12, dear! v or “Just after mid-
I uight, pet’”
But one evening, or rather morning, she
said, instead of the usual request:
“John, dear, 1 wish you’d stop that clock,
its ticking worries me.”
The hapless, unsuspecting man did so.
Next morning wifey asked artlessly:
J “What time did you come home last night,
John?”
“About midnight,” he replied glibly.
“John.” she said coldly, “look at the
clock!”
The hands of the timepiece pointed to
i 2:15!
i
Swine fever had broken out in the village
and the local policeman had been appointed
to call upon all owners of pigs and take par
ticulars of each case. • •
Rapping at the door of an old cottage he !
■ was confronted by a shrewdish looking worn-!
an, who curtly asked him what he wanted, i
“A've called to see the swine,” said the
j constable.
“He's oot,” snappily replied the woman, |
; and banged the door.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
The Japanese government has ratified the
German peace treaty. The emperor signed
the pact Friday after the treaty committee
of the privy council had unanimously ap
proved it. Japan is the fourth allied power
to ratify the treaty. She has given assur
ance that immediately after ratification she
will fix a definite time for returning Shan
tung to Chinese sovereignty.
Silver, “the white hope of the Yukon,’’ as
it has been called, has been found in such
quantities in the northern territory that it is
believed sooner or later large deposits will
be found to replace the decreasing yields of
gold aqd copper. All the reports of silver
strikes Indicate it iS’ said that the silver is
scattered over an area of thousands of
square miles.
Representative Edwin Y. Webb, of Shelby,
N. C., was nominated last week by President
Wilson as an additional federal judge for
the western district of North Carolina.
Norman H. Davis, of Tullahoma, Tenn.,
who was one of the financial advisers to thA
American peace mission at Paris, has been
nominated by President Wilson as assistant
secretary of the treasury, to succeed L. S.
Rowe, assigned.
The offensive against the Lloyd George ad
ministration apparently has been stopped.
British house of commons has voted confi
dence in the government’s financial policy,
405 to 20. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor
of the exchequer, introduced a resolution
putting the house on record as promising
“hearty support to the government in all rea
sonable proposals, however drastic, for the
reduction of expenditures and the dimin
ution of debt,” following a debate in
which the government was defended by
premier Lloyd George, War Minister Churchill
and Andrew Bonar Law, administration
spokesman, an amendment to the resolution
was introduced by John Clynes, laborite. This
was defeated by a majority of 385, after
which the government resolution was adopt
ed unanimously.
Steel strike leaders in Pittsburg have de
clared that the coal miners’ strike will greatly
strengthen the position of the striking steel
workers in that it will show that organized
labor has accepted the challenge of capital
and is ready for a fight to the finish.
Acting at the request of Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey and other Atlanta citizens, both Sen
ators Hoke Smith and William J. Harris have
presented to General PeFshing an urgent in
vitation that he include Camp Gordon in his
itinerary when the general starts on his trip
of inspection of various army camps.
Major General Henry G. Sharpe has been
detailed as commander of the southeastern
department, the post which he held prior
to going abroad on a special mission for
the war department. At the outbreak of the
war General Sharpe was head of the army
quartermaster eorps.
By unanimous vote the senate interstate
commerce committee has refused to grant
the request of representatives of the railroad
brotherhoods that hearings be reopened on
the anti-strike provision of the railroad bill
which the committee recently reported to the
senate.
Prince Casimir Lubomirskl, first minister
to Washington from the new Polish republic,
Iras arrived in this country accompanied by
his wife.
TREMORS
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By H. Addington Bruce
TREMORS —slight or massive involuntary
movements in face, hands, legs, or
other parts of the body—have many
causes. They may signify nothing more se
rious than fatigue, or, at the opposite ex
treme, they may be symptoms of a profound
organic disorder of the central nervous sys
tem.
In the first instance they are transient, dis
appearing with rest. In the second they are
persistent and tend to become worse with
the advance of the disease responsible for
them. Mere persistence of a tremor, how
ever, does not necessarily mean that it is as
sociated with a severe organic malady.
It may be—and it usually is—indicative of
nothing but a functional nervous disturbance.
Which means that it is the result of con
scious or subconscious overfixing of the at
tention on the affected bodily part and that
a cure can be brought about by treatment de
signed to break up this faulty attention habit.
A person, for example, experiences a severe
emotional shock, the shock of a great fright,
of bad news, of finaheial loss, etc. He reacts
to this by trembling violently, perhaps by
losing consciousness.
Ordinarily all physical signs of the emo
tional stress which has crushed ‘him would
soon disappear. But, possibly because of ill
health or over fatigue at the time of the
shock, the trembling continues.
This leads him to worry over it and to pay
undue attention to it. He conceives the idea
that it must be a serious, perhaps incurable,
ailment. In this way, by perpetually watch
ing it and brooding over it, he keeps it in
evidence long after it would otherwise have
ceased to trouble him.
Let him, however, become persuaded that
it Is of no particular account, let his atten
tion be effectually diverted from it, and the
cure of which he had despaired will speedily
be wrought.
The proper treatment of functional tremors,
accordingly, must be pyschological rather
than medical. It must be treatment by sug
gestion, aiming to establish confidence in the
curability of the tremor and aiming also to
train the patient to think less about it.
For this purpose exercises to re-establish
control over the tremulous muscles are
both directly and indirectly helpful. Such
exercises, it should be added, are to be recom
mended even in cases where the trouble has
an organic basis in some progressive disease.
To quote the findings of Dr. J. Madison
Taylor, a Philadelphia physician who has
specialized in the study and treatment of
both functional and organic tremors:
“When muscle freeing, regulating, train
ing exercises are skillfully used an important
contribution is made toward repair of cen
tral’lesions through functional stimulation,
local circulatory adjustment in cerebral and
associated cells, hence of nutrition in critical j
ar eas Good results follow in even ■
such a seriously degenerative state as paraly
sis agitans.”
Dr. Taylor, of course, does not claim that
an outright cure can be effected in cases of I
tremor due to nerve wasting. ,But he does
insist that “marked reduction of disability”
may be obtained, “co-ordination noticeably
improved,” and “tremor lessened.”
As for the functionally nervous—that is.
the great majority of tremor victims—the
outlook is always bright to the highest degree,
provided only that they place themselves in
the care of practitioners competent to de
velop in them, whether by suggestion plus
muscle training or bv suggestion alone, the
proper mental attitude toward their tremor.
(Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers)
r The Supreme Council in Paris has under
discussion the creation of an interallied mili
tary commission to direct the movement of
troops in the occupied area of Germany and
the plebiscite sections after formal ratifica
tion of the treaty. With such ratification the
supreme military command will cease, and it,
therefore, becomes necessary to create an or
ganization to supervise military movements
provided for in the treaty. If this interallied
military commission is created, Marshal Foch
will undoubtedly be chairman of R, says a
Paris dispotch.
Additional measures to curb activities of
radicals have been instroduced in the house.
Under the provisions of a bill by Representa
tive Smith, of Michigan, the display of a red
flag at any public assembly or demonstra
tion would be prima facie evidence of its use
as an “emblem of anarchy.” The measure
, provides a punishment of five years’ impris
onment and SI,OOO fine.
All radical literature looking to the over
throw of the government or resistance to its
laws, as well as documents dealing with pro
jected railroad strikes, would be barred from
the mails by a bill of Representative Blanton,
Democrat, of Texas. The measure also would
make punishable display of banners intend
ed to promote or incite the overthrow of the
government by force or violence or resis
tance to federal laws.
Werner Horn the German reservist, who at
tempted to destroy the St. Croix bridge by
dynamiting it February 2. 1915, was sentenc
ed Friday at Frederick, N. 8., to ten years in
the penitentiary.
Aftter a thirty-day tour of the United
States, Albert, king of the Belgians, and
Queen Elizabeth, left Friday on the trans
port George Washington on their return trip
to Belgian. Their’s was the first visit of
reigning sovereigns to this country.
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Fire of an unknown origin destroyed a
compartment of the Farmers’ warehouse in
Tignall, eleven miles north of Washington
Ga.. early Friday morning. Six hundred
bales burned.
The Georgia Memorial commission, which
was created through an act of legislature and
by appointment of governor for the purpose
' of electing a monument tq the men who went
! from Georgia and died in the world war will
1 hold a called meeting at the state capitol
November 11.
The bill providing for the purchase of the
Canadian Grand Trunk railway by the gov
ernment has passed the committee stage in
the Canadian house of commons. It is pre
dicted that the bill will encounter strong op
position in the Canadian senate.
For the first time in the history of New
York state, two magistrates, one of each sex,
sat on the judicial bench to hear cases. The
woman was Mrs. Jean H, Norris, assistant
secretary of Tammany Hall, who was ap
pointed the first woman magistrate by Mayor
Hylan. The newly appointed magistrate will
sit in the women’s day court.
United States District Judge Hand has
granted a temporary injunction at the re
quest ot the United States district attorney
prohibiting the sale in New York of all liquor
containing one-half of 1 per cent or more
alcohol. Under the injunction saloon-keepers
who violate the prohibition enforcement law
can be summarily arrested and imprisoned for
contempt of court.
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE
By Dr. Frank Crane
Is the right to strike one of our inalienable
rights, along with life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness?
Mr. Gompers says it is. 'i
The whole labor union dea insists upon it,
as a self-evident truth. But is it?
Is it not one of those deceptive doctri ,”es
which seem true, but contain the seed of in
justice?
Ordinarily, a man ought to be allowed to
work if he chooses and quit when he
anything else is slavery.
But like every other human right this is
j limited by another law, just as seii-evident, to
wit: that if his working or his 'cessation of
work injures others and operates to wrong in
nocent parties and to bring loss or hurt to them,
then he has not the right.
In civilized society no right is absolute, but
■ qualified by the right of others.
, A man has the igh to marry ,/hcm he
pleases, if she will have him, but having mar
ried he has no right to desert his wife and
abandon his children if he ceases to love them.
Every right carries obligat ons, and having
availed himself of his right a man cannot side
step his obligations.
Even the right of a king to rule is checked
i by his duty to rule justly and to abstain from
cruelty and tyranny; and when he forget this
he meets the fate of Charles of England, Louis
'of France, and Nicholas of Russia.
The labor unions are rejoicing in a new
| power. By organization they find themselves
able to coerce employers by depriving them of
labor and ruining their business.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. It is,
to a degree, a good thing. For it offsets the
power and right of the employer to exercise
his absolute will over labor in hiring and fir
ing, a right which has often Ken used un
justly.
| But this right of labor, which it has dis
covered in organization, is limited by its obli
gation to the public.
The longshoremen have a right to .quit work,
but not if by so doing they : mperil the health
of the city, bring loss and disorder to com
merce of the whole. country, and disorganize
business generally.
The coal miners of the United States have
no right as an organization to cease labor when
that entails ruin and suffering to millions of
people who have no part nor guilt ’in their
contention.
They threaten women and chil Iren, the sick
and the old, with injury; • it is precisely
the program of the Germans in Belgium who
brutally treated little boys and girls and old
men and women under the plea of military
necessity.
A general strike of the railway employes
would be equally as cruel and unjust.
I here is something which c< mes before, and
is greater than, ~ny m„n’s or any group of
men’s rights; it is their obligation.
The right to strike is a very sharp and tei
rible sword, but when they that take the swr-'
do not use it with a sense of their obligations,
they shall perish by the sword.
(Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
BEES STEAL CARLOAD OF SUGAR IN
FRANCE
BY ANTHONY ASHMORE
Near the station of Fountainebleau, France,
a carload of crystallized sugar was held up and
within four days the entire load had disappeared
in spite of the guards. Not far from the sta
tion,at Avon, there are large beehives, and* while
the bees covered the car in swarms no one sup
posed that they could carry away the cyrstal
lized sugar. Nor could they!
But industrious and ingenious, they betook
themselves to near-by basins and fountains ang
carried drops of water to melt the sugar! Th?
dampened sugar formed a syrup that was easilv
transported to the hives. *