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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE, CLAYTON. GEORGIA.
Plans for the Titanic memorial sub
mitted by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney
of New York have been accepted by
the Washington (L>. C.) Kino Arts
commission. Tho memorial iB to be
erected hero to commemorate the he
roism of the men who sacrificed their
lives that the women passengers of
the vessel might be saved.
The announcement was made by
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, secretary
of the Titanic Memorial association,
which has raised $43,000 for tho erec
tion of the memorial. She is also
chairman of the committee that finally
passed upon the designs.
Mrs. Robert Chew, chairman of tho
District of Columbia association, re
ceived a letter from Mrs. Hammond
communicating to her the fact that
the commission had approved tho de
sign submitted by Mrs. Whitney. Mrs.
John Hay, president of the Titanic
Memorial association, also announced
that Mrs. Whitney’s design had been
accepted. Seven designs were submitted to the commission which, with Mrs.
Hammond, made the selection. Some of the most prominent sculptors of the
country were among the competitors.
.-Mrs. Whitney’s design, it was learned, is a figure of a man, symbolic of
heroism. The figure, in white marble, stands with arms outstretched and
head thrown back, giving the impression from a distance of the Crucifixion.
Fanners’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matter* Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
CONSIDER RURAL CONDITIONS
Senator Dee Overman of North Car
olina, chairman of the senate lobby
investigating committee, will intro
duce a bill soon so drastic that It may
be questioned whether under its pro
visions a headquarters or office can
be maintained in Washington by uny
business organization Interested in
legislation. Not only will Senator
Overman Include features of the Mas
sachusetts law requiring tho registra
tion of legislative counsel and agents,
but he will incorporate the resolution
of Andrew J. Peters of Massachu
setts providing for the publication of a
bulletin of committee hearings. This
is a reform for which the press gal
lery and many members of house and
senat6 have been working, but action
has been delayed party through the
recent refusal of congress to transact
general business.
“The point iB this,” said the senator.
"The public has a right to know when
hearings will be held, that it may be
properly represented. It has a right to know what class/of men are trying to
influence legislation in congress and why. It is not improper for any person
to appear before a congressional committee in favor of or in opposition to a
measure, but it is improper for lobbyists to come here in disguise, deceive tho
committees, if they can, and get work on the outside which often wears ail
the aspects of impropriety. The business of congress is public, not private.
It should be open and above board. It should be advertised properly in ad
vance and should be conducted by men who are wearing the label of what
they are so there can be no misunderstand.
The most of us And that our lot in
life lacks a whole lot of being a whole
lot.
When looking for work to do some
people develop amazing near-sighted
ness.
If you cannot successfully employ
your father's method in farming,
make a change and try a new one.
If the average farmer could see his
wife’s hat as her friends see it, the
milliners would do more business.
This is now a good time to regret
the mistakes of last year and plan to
avoid a repetition of them next year.
During a hard winter tho section
north of tho Mason and Dixon line
may bo counted upon for a bumper
crop of chilblains.
Raising a crop of domestic good
cheer arid contentment is very profit
able, and keeps the entire family busy
I the whole year through.
| There is said to be a number of
i easy ways of making a living, but
when the real test comes mighty few
of us remember just how the trick is
j done.
| By this timo you can accurately
estimate tho profit made by spraying
your fruit trees. It was remarkable,
wasn't it? Or didn't you spray your
trees?
Doctors who prescribe some form of
physicial exorcise are not popular in
i all quarters. Which goes to show
that some people are literally too lazy
to live.
It might, be a good idea to take a
j look in at the country school these
■ days. Tho teacher will be surprised,
but then maybe your boy is endanger
ing his health by over-study.
The prizes you won as a boy for
being always at the head of your class
would be nice to show your children
and stimulate their ambition. It’s too
bad you didn’t save them.
While enjoying your comfort during
tho winter, bo sure and remember
how grateful tho mice and rabbits
j aro at your failure to put an en
circling barrier of wire screen and
; cornstalks about your young fruit
trees.
MAKING CO-OPERATION PAY
When Hamilton Pish, Progressive,
took seat in the New York assembly
January 7, as representative from Put
nam county, he was entering the legis
lature at twenty-four, the same age at
which his father entered the assembly
just 40 years ago from the same con
stituency.
In addition he is probably, by a
considerable margin, the youngest
member of the state lawmaking body,
just as was his father when he enter
ed the lower house.
And the comparison and coinsidence
do not end there, for each has been a
chairman of a political county commit
tee in Putnam. The father for many
years captained the Republican com
mittee, and the son is now tho head of
the Progressives. The father is now a
Progressive. .
When Mr. Fish took up his lawmak
ing duties he was the third of the
same name in direct line, and the lat
est in a long family history to serve
state or Nation in one important capacity or another. That service, indeed,
began 250 years ago. For Jonathan Fish, first of the family to settle in the
United States, became a distinguished magistrate soon after removing from
Massachusetts to Newtown Village in 1659,
Hence, in the minds of those who make a specialty of political history, and
who believe in heredity, this youngest political figure in the annals of an old
family may well bo watched for future development.
According to those high in the con
fidence of church circles in Rome, Wil
liam Cardinal O’Connell, archbishop of
Boston, waB ut one time seriously con
sidered as the successor of the late
Cardinal Rampolla, who was archpriest
of St. Peters. An official bulletin a
few days ago, however, announced the
appointment of Cardinal Merry del Val
to that high office.
Incidentally, the rumor of the pos
sible appointment of the noted Ameri
can prolate was received in Rome
with tho expression of warmest ap
proval. ■
Regarding the then possible call to
St. Peters, the Impression prevailed
In the Eternal City Catholic circles
that the Boston cardinal could have
bad the poBt If he had so desired. Not
withstanding Cardinal Merry del Val's
appointment, these same circles are
Inclined to believe that the future
holds great honors for his eminence.
According to time-honored tradition,
’ the office of archpriest of the greatest temple in Christendom is always reserved
for the papal secretary of state. On the day following the election of a new
pope he leaves the state chancery and takes his place among tho administra
tion cardinalB, and according to thlB theory the office would eventually go to
rdinaJ Merry del Val.
Enterprise at Calumet, Mich., Has
Paid Out $1,141,006 in Dividends—
Big Handicaps Overcome. *
Some of the most discouraging hand
icaps that could possibly be saddled
upon a co-oporative enterprise have
been carried by tho Calumet (Mich.)
undertaking from its inception, but in
spite of this burden its dividends for
tho year 1912 were $103,947; its sales
were $845,930; its reserve in bank was
$18,724; and it has paid out since its
organization a total of $1,144,006 in
dividends to its owners, who constitute
the main body of its patronB. Its paid-
up capital stock is $68,180 and it has
$105,000 insurance in force. Its actual
assets today aro three and one-half
times its paid in capital and it has
1,814 shareholders. Measured by any
standard of retail storokeoping, this
1b an example of success that is allur
ing and worth looking into.
Tho stockholders speak from 10 to
12 different languages and there ’x
no great common racial or business
Interest to bind them except the well
being of their families.
It was, however, the corporation offl-
cotb of tho great copper camp who
gave co-oporation its initial force and
enabled it to buy In largo quantities,
forcing jobbers to take notice of the
organization, but they after a timo
withdrew and the store iB now run en
tirely by workingmen of not very high
wago-oarning capacity.
What intorested the mining com
pany in tho ventnro was that they
found that Increased wages were swal
lowed up by stores raising their prices
und that the men and their families
were no better fed than formerly. The
same officers who helped the men co
operate on trading were those who
had brought together the 10 or 12
races, so that thoy should not combine
in strikes, and this policy has been
successful. Robert W. Bennett, from
Northumberland, England, bad already
16 years’ experience in co-operation
before ho came to Calumet, where he
found, though wages were higher, he
had no mo$) purchasing capacity, and
he started tho movement.
Once well set going, the general
store had more to fear, as Is usual,
from within than without Suspicion
and Internal dissensions at times
threatened to wreck It, but open and
above board, honest management, have
made it a success.
Managing a Farm.
While it Is well to encourage the
“Back to tho Soil” movement, espe
cially among young people. It la fool
ish to think that anyone can manage a
farm successfully from the first It
requires careful study and patience
year In and year out, but the person
who has Industry and common sense
will succeed In the end.
Co-Operative Banka.
There are 735 co-operative credit
and loon banks In the Netherlands,
supported by three central banks,
which are again affiliated with the
tyetherlanda bank.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
Makes Address on “The Organiza
tion of American Agriculture.”
David F. Houston secretary of agri
culture, delivered an address on "The
Organization of American Agriculture”
before the forty-seventh annual ses
sion of the National Grange of Pa
trons of Husbandy, at Manchester, N.
H. In his introduction Secretary Hous
ton stated that it was time that all in
telligent people put their heads togeth
er to consider rural conditions, which
presented not a class problem but a
national problem affecting city and ru
ral population alike. Among other
things he said that some of the ag
ricultural colleges were not doing
Uietr full duty, that the country child
was handicapped in gaining an educa
tion, that the present system of free
seed distribution should be supplanted,
that the farmer is not a mendicant
when ho asks for a consideration of
the question of rural credits. He out
lined the work that the department of
agriculture was seeking and in bring
ing the information it had on all sub
jects to the farmer who needed it.
One thing is clear, the schemes that
aro multiplying which conceive the
farmer to be a mendicant and a sub
ject for unique and sepciai legisla
tion may be at once condemned. The
American farmer does not need or de
sire to be classed with those foreign
people who are just emerging from a
condition of serfdom and tutelage. He
asks no opportunity that is not afford
ed to every American citizen; he asks
for no legislation which shall give him
credit on easier terms than his broth
er mechanic, or his professional friend,
or his merchant may secure it. But
he does ask to be assisted in creating
conditions and machinery which shall
enable him on a similar credit founda
tion to secure his money at the same
rates as any other class in the com
munity. This, and this alone it seems
to me, is all that he asks and is noth
ing less than he deserves.
In the field of marketing, there is
also danger that pressure will be
brought to bear upon us to act every
where before we are prepared to act
intelligently anywhere. Not that as
sistance cannot be given hero and
there, and not that the department is
not furnishing and will not furnish in
formation of great practical value to
individuals and communities.
It is absolutely clear that before
the problems of rural credit and of
marketing, the individual farmer, act
ing alone, is helpless. Nothing less
than concerted action will suffice. Co
operation is absolutely essential. The
same business sense and the same or
ganizing genius which have placed this
nation in the front rank in industry
must be invoked for agriculture.
I am advocating simply an econom
ic arrangement which will facilitate
production and enable the producer to
find the readiest and best market for
his produce and the consumer to re
ceive his supplies at the lowest cost.
Nor am I thinking of concerted effort
which shall proceed from above down
ward. It must associate itself with
some particular product which is more
or less capable of being standardized
and the object must be to overcome
some specific difficulty.
Types of organizations which oper
ate successfully abroad cannot neces
sarily be imported into this country
without modification.
There is obvious need of organiza
tion for sanitary purposes and for
social development. Whether all these
shall come through definite attack of
private or public agencies or as by
products, makes no difference; they
must come. We can no longer enter
tain the notion that rural life shall re
main Isolated, disjointed and unorgan
ized. Its organization it, a national,
economic and social necessity. It is
more difficult to organize a scattered
rural population than a concentrated
one, but the great need is to give the
rural population at least approximate
ly the primary advantages which the
town enjoys. The town is organiza
tion, and because of its organization
and of its consequent advantages, it
has tended to attract to it the most
ambitious youth of the country. Tho
task of rural organization is difficult
but as the greatest educator of Ameri
ca has said: “The difficulty of a task
constitutes no reason for declining it.”
And in this way lies the largest prom
ise for national upbuilding and stabil
ity.
Living a Starved Life.
The man who has always pinched
and squeezed has lived a starved life.
He has not only denied himself and
his family pleasures and conveniences
which frequently could have been well
afforded, hut he has cheated and
robbed his rharaeter of proper devel
opment. He has become hard and
crabbed. He has lost bis capacity for
enjoyment He has arrived at a con
dition where satisfaction can only
come whon he is accumulating and
hoarding money.
Benefits of Co-Operation.
Cooperation has for Us object the
making of money on what you have
to sell, and saving money on what
you have to buy, but there are great
er principles and far greater possi
bilities involved. The nearer and
more perfectly the principles of co
operation are lived up to, the greater
will be the benefits to the coopera-
tore.
On Being Happy.
Dock for things to be glad about.
Insist on being happy. It is your duty;
it costs effort, but it pays. Happiness
comes only through making those
around you happy. Get the happiness
habit without delay.
| Dealing With
Excuses
& Br REV. HOWARD W. POPE
Superintendent of Men
<•> Moody Bible Institute, Chicago
TEXT—I pray thee have me excused.-
Duke 14:18.
Let us begin
the most common
of all excuses, “I
Am Not Very
Bad.”
The mistake
which this man is
making is that of
judging himself
by a false stand
ard. The remedy
is to correct his
standard. Say to
him, “It may be
that yon are not
very bad in your
own estimation, or
in the opinion of
others , but let us see what God says
about you. His Word is the only true
standard.”
Open your Bible and ask him to
read aloud Romans 3:10. There is
none righteous, no, not one. After be
has read it, ask him a few questions:
“Whose words are these which you
have read?”
"God’s Words."
"Does be know the real condition
of a man's heart?"
“Yes."
"Does he know a man's heart bet
ter than the man himself?”
“Probably."
"Who does he say is righteous?"
"He says that there 1b none right
eous.”
"What, not one?”
"No, not one.”
"Are you an exception to this rule?"
"I suppose not.” *
"Then you admit that you are not
really righteous?”
"1 suppose I must."
Ask him to read Romans 3:23. Then
say to him, “Who does God say have
sinned?"
“All have sinned."
"Are you an exception?”
"No.”
"Then you admit that you have
sinned and come short of the glory of
God”
By this time the man is becoming
uneasy. He is beginning to realize
that whatever be may be in his own
estimation, in God’s sight he is a
sinner. You have withdrawn his at
tention from the inconsistent church
members with whom ho has formerly
compared himself, and you have fixed
his mind upon the great God to whom
lie must give an account.
Another good verse to use with this
class is Isaiah 53:6. After the man
has read it, ask him, "Who does God
Eay has gone astray?”
“All of us.”
“Does that include you?"
"1 suppose it does.”
"What- does he say we have done?”
"We have turned every one to his
own way.”
"Then, according to God's Word,”
having one’s own way is sin?"
"So it seems.”
It is well to emphasize this point
strongly, for, to the average person
the word "sin” means some form of
vice or crime. According to this verse
however the real essence of sin con
sists in having one’s own way, in
stead of walking in God’s way. It
may not be an immoral way. or a dis
honest way, or an untruthful way, but
i.t is his way and not God’s way, in
which he ought to walk.
Returning to the verse you can ask,
"What do you say of a sheep which
has gone astray?” I
“It is lost.”
"Then if you have had your own
way through life instead of doing
God's will, you too are lost, are you
not?"
"So it appears."
“Admitting then that you are a lost
sinner, what does God Bay that be
has done witli your sins?"
“And the< I.ord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all."
"Then your sins have made it neces
sary for Jesus to die on the crose?”
“Yes.”
“When Jesus took your place ou the
cross and died for your sins, you re
fused to acknowledge him as your
Saviour, did you not?”
“Yes."
“And you have never once thanked
him for what he has done for you
have you?"
“No"
“And yet you say you are not very
bad. If this is not bad, will you tell
me what is? There is only one thing
worse, and that is to continue reject
ing such a Saviour.”
in dealing with self-righteous p,eople
it. Is well-nigh useless to argue. Nei
ther would It be a very gracious thing
to tell them that you thought they
were great sinners. They would not
believe It if you did, and quite likely
thoy might retort. "And you are an
other.”
The only effective way of dealing
with them Is to bring them face to
face with God. and make them realize
that they are dealing with Him rather
than with you.
Another way is to ask a person if
be knows that he has committed the
greatest sin a man can commit. He
will probably answer, "No, I have
not” Ask him to read Matthew
22:27. 38
STOPPED TRAFFIC FOR PUSSY
Business on New York Thoroughfare
Interrupted While Mother Cat
Crossed the Street.
It was a busy day in Fulton street.
Dines of trucks wore bucking each oth
er east and west, when out from a
produce store came a cat. and dang
ling from her mouth was a kitten,
with which she essayed to cross the
street. Each time she started she had
to turn back because of a truck, and
her efforts soon attracted a c irwd of
idlers.
Down from the corner came a po
liceman. He soon saw what was the
matter, and while there was nothing
in the traffic regulations to cover
point, it took the blueeoat only a mo
ment to decide what to do.
Going into the street lie raised hi9
hands in the way that truckmen have
learned means "Stop." They stopped.
The cat. seeing her opportunity, took
a firmer Hold on the nape of her prod
igy, and then, holding it high to keep
its curved tail out of the mud, she
slowly and deliberately picked her way
across and disappeared in a cellar.
PROBABLY BET WASN'T PAID
Youngster Undoubtedly Had Won lt„
but There Were Other Circum
stances to Consider.
it was the day after the party. Nine-
year-old Robert came to his mother
and said:
“Mamma, how many of those nico
cut-glass ice cream dishes of yours aro
there exactly?"
"Twenty-four, my son.”
"Will you bet me that you have
more than 23?”
"No, darling. Grandmother Brown
gave me one dozen and Grandmother
Sulliyan another dozen. That makes
exactly two dozen.”
"All the same,” persisted young
Robert, “please bet me!”
"Very well. I'll bet.”
“Then you've lost. 'Cause I've brok
en one of 'em.”—New York Evening
Post.
Deserved His Tip.
A gentleman who frequently visited
Ireland generally stopped and dined
at the same hotel in Cork.
On ills arrival one day he perceived
a written notice on the looking glass
In the luncheon-room, which ran as
follows:
"Strangers are particularly request
ed not to give any money to the wait
ers as attendance is charged for in
the bill.”
The waiter who had attended on
him at dinner, seeing him reading this
notice, said:
“Oh, mister, sure that don’t concern
you in any way. Your honor was
never made a stranger of in this ho
tel."
One kind of a nuisance is always
telling you that “you ought to take
something for that before it is too
late.”
Probably.
Bix—-I see that someone is getting
up a "Woman’s Dictionary.”
Dix—More words in it, I suppose.
pr
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Adv
Overheard.
"Katherine has such a taking way."
”1 wish she had a way of bringing
back.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
An opportunity is a good bit like a
wasp. It takes a lot of experience to
know how to grasp it without getting
stung.
Many a man who marries for money
is a poor collector.
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