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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. 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