The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, May 08, 1908, Image 8
BENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. M ■ ■ ■ J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher. H. L. JOHNSON, Editor. Entered at the poetofflce at McDoik dash as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per lnol par month. Reduction on standlni pactracts by special agreement. The doctors are now telling us, notes the Chicago Inter Ocean, that we catch heat as often as we catch cold, if not oftcner; and there you are again. • A change must come, shouts the Richmond Times-Dispateh. It has already set in. Prices must come down. The cost of living must, be reduced. The cost of doing business must be reduced before there can be a healthy reaction in trade. We must learn to economize. We must be content to live a simpler life. Flies carry the germs of typhoid fever and spread them everywhere, insists the Christian Register. Mos quitoes bite those who have yellow or malarial fever, and then, again, bite healthy persons to whom they convey the disease. The chance for science and philanthropy to work to gether here is almost boundless. The laws of Great Britain make a Dumber of distinctions between wom en and men, observes the New York ■World. A man can get a divorce on grounds which are not open to wom en. An Englishman may heat his wife, and, providing he does it moder ately and for her own needful disci pline, she canifot secure counsel fees and alimony. % Our Spanish American neighbors from the Rio Grande southward, notes the St. Louis Republic, are more and more disposed to recognize the fact that the work done in this coun try to establish closer trade relations becomes an asset of their own as soon as they accept its results. They ask only that we meet them as equals, not as inferiors, and this is a tacit re quest in the hospitality they offer the United States as represented by its navy. Recently, by several reputable writ ers, literary men, ministers wom en have been advised to consult a banker before making Investments in stocks, bonds, and other securities. The advice is excellent, admits the Christian Register, and yet something prior to such transactions is needed. First, choose your banker. For the man or woman inexperienced in finan cial affairs, the choosing of an advis er is often as difficult as the choice of a security. Undoubtedly the billboard is a pass ing evil. It has sprung up within comparatively recent years and has reached its present horrible domi- Dance only because the authority which holds in check other invaders of private rights has not been inter actively invoked. Now that the effort 4s made to bring this authority to bear, we ought to expect this weedy growth to be checked. It cannot last forever, admits the Boston Post. No community will endure t it in perpetu ity. But meantime the regulation of the evil is demanded by every consid eration of ethics and of individual right. “Kismet” is a Turkish word. It is a near ally to opium and hasheesh, being used to stupefy the will ns those drugs paralyze the body and mind. When evils come upon the Turk he bows his head and foolishly mutters “Kismet! It is fate!” confesses the Pittsburg Press. Every winter and spring the people of the Ohio valley suffer the most destructive of floods and they bow their heads and mutter “Kismet.” They think it is fate. But it isn’t. The floods are our fault. The science that prevents yellow fever and is conquering the white plague knows the remedy for the Ohio floods. Every man now counting up his damage from the recent floods — every poor per son dying of pneumonia from the dampness—is suffering from an ifl as surely curable at toothache. A Censor of the Press By Jlgnes Qepplier. HE Nineteenth Century and After, that most genial of Brit- T& ish dictators, has expressed its opinions—more in sorrow ♦ than in anger—on the subject of the American Sunday news • paper. This amazing product of our civilization strikes the i, T English critic with something akin to awe. Its vast bulk, ' ►♦♦♦••♦•»+ he enuormous figures which represent its real or fictitious jj ♦ circulation; its wide grasp of material, from literary novel i ties like “The Wandering Jew,” to the range at which Master Archie Roosevelt shot a rabbit; its determination to provide entertainment for every grade of intelligence and senility; its advertisements, its illustrations, and the generous breadth with which it defines that pleasant word “society,” are all equally bewildering to an alien. He pauses to speculate upon the “gifted prophetess,’ who for twenty-five cents “and upwards” pro vides "gypsy sympathy,” fortune telling, palmistry andspiritcommunications. ’ He is pleased and surprised to see that the seven royal children,of an unpro nounceable German principality are as dear to our hearts, and our pf'ss, as the lady who sings “Seven Lumps of Sugar > Sweetie,” in advanced vaudeville, and whose portrait flanks that of the Germanic nurslings. He asks on what principle of selection this mass of heterogeneous rubbish is collected and dis tributed weekly. Above all, the colored comic supplement of the Sunday newspaper is a stumbling-block to the critic’s path. For whom, he wonders, and for whom, we wonder, too, can these pictures be intended? Do grown-up people trace the disastrous consequences of Sammy’s Sneeze, or follow Faithful Fritz through his ever-repeated ducking and tumblings? Has American humor re verted to the simple anyestral type which regarded an accident of any kind as mirthful? Are the supplements designed for the exclusive refresnment of the feeble-minded, or as a blight upon the intelligence of youth? Or can it be pos sible that we are all, without knowing it, at the “Slovenly Peter” stage of men tal development? These are questions which the Nineteenth Century lacks the spirit and intelligence to answer. It merely observes that “a’family which has saturated itself with the Sunday newspaper is in no mood for church-go ing, nor for any serious occupation”—a statement too obvious for regard. A family “saturated” with the Sunday newspaper would probably be tottering on' the verge of idiocy, but the American mind is not of a porous quality. It was the wi3e Marcus Aurelius who —tormented with the superfluities of Rome —ad- vised his readers to save themselves by inattention from the knowledge of useless things.—From Life. Six Hundred Millions Worth of Floods Yearly By Walter J. Ballard. ❖ ❖❖❖►M-**** T is estimated by the United State geological survey that floods cost the American people $100,000,000 a year in loss of V T 4* property, while the mere menace of these floods prevents the ❖ Jl development of thousands of square miles of ottierwise val -4* uable property and limits the usefulness of a far greater 4* area. Great as is the annual destruction of property, great t er still is the loss by the waste of the water Itself. A con servative estimate places the water loss at five times the value of the property loss. If the flood water of the United States could be stored for future use it would be worth $500,000,000 a year to us. Therefore, it is safe to say that, directly and indirectly, floods cost the American people a total of $600,000,000 a year. To prevent or minimize this great loss the engineers of the water resourc es branch of the geological survey have been for a number of years making systematic studies of flood conditions on many streasms throughout the country, and several of their reports have been published. Attention is now drawn to Water Supply Papers Nos. 88. 92, 96, 147 and 162. Renewed impetus was giv en to the work by the great flood in the Ohio river basin in March, 1907, which was one of the two greatest in a hundred years, the other having occurred In ISS4. The ideal remedy for floods, according to the engineers of the survey, is the keeping of the earth’s surface in a porous condition, so that the water will be absox-bed and held as by a sponge, and allowed to pass slowly into the streams. Vegetation is the great agent that produces porosity of soil, and the most effective form of vegetation for the retardation of surface flow is forest cover. Forestation, therefore, is the prime requisite for the prevention of the needless waste caused by floods. The next requisite is the construction of reservoirs to hold the waters so that they may be made useful during seasons of low water. Nearly all Amer ican rivers can be readily controlled by the construction of storage reservoirs on the headwater streams. The cost of such work, though heavy, would be as nothing compared with the enormous benefits to water power and irrigation, as well as to flood prevention and navigation. The Orient Watching the Filipinos By Major George P. Jlhern, Director of For> estry in the Philippines. ■ ■—> UST now the English, French, and Germans in the F'ar East J sneer at the American idea of establishing an ideal republic in the Philippines. They say we are making a grave mis take in giving the natives too much leeway. The English in lndia give a few selected natives a little power, but the OV 09 great majority of natives in the English colonies have no voice in the government and earn little social recognition. L The American experiment, which probably is the most re markable the world has ever seen, gives the poorest native the same chance as wealthiest, education being free to all. At Manila, in stead of climbing up a* tree to see what is going on, the Filipino citizen can go to a reception of the governor-general and shake his hand and leave feel ing of considerable importance. While the representatives of European civili zation sneer, the eyes of the entire Orient are turned seriously on this great American experiment. If it succeeds, there will be startling developments in Java, China, and India, not to mention other countries. The natives of India will say to themselves: “If such great freedom can be given to the Filipinos, why cannot it be given to us?” Manila today is swarming with Orientals from all Eastern countries, for it is one of the cosmopolitan cities of the world. “Line’s Busy.” “What are you laughing about?” asked the inquisitive pigeon. “My feet tickle,” chuckled the spar row on the overhead wire. “What tickled them?” “Some fellow is sending his best girl a dozen kisses over the tele phone.”—Chicago News. Classified. Rollo—She claims he is one of the “Four Hundred.” Tessie—She looks more like one of the “fifty-seven.”—Princeton Tiger. Germany’s 21 universities have an enrollment of 27,000 students, under the care of 2000 professors PLAN OPPOSED BY BURLESON Which Would Provide Commission to Probe Cotton Exchanges. WRITES HARVIE JORDAN Texas Representative Declares That Rem edial Legislation Should Come Through Regular Channels. A Washington special says: Repre sentative Burleson, of Texas, has sent the following letter to Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton As sociation, in answer to a letter, asking the introduction of a joint resolution for the appointment of a commission to investigate cotton exchange meth ods during the summer recess of con gress and to recommend remedial leg islation. “I do not believe that the president, has any idea of making recommenda tions along the line upon which I think legislation should be had. The report from the bureau of corporations on the resolution written and introduced by me calling for au investigation of the cotton exchanges, with a view of ascertaining what effect the fluctua tions in the market price are occa sioned by the character of these con tracts and deliveries made thereon, has not been sent to the house. “I understand it is in the hands of the president, and that he is holding it for some purpose. On Saturday I had adopted a resolution introduced by me directing that said report be sent to the congress at once. “Recently the secretary of com merce and labor gave out an inter view, in which he stated that the president was not opposed to legiti mate cotton exchanges, but was op posed to bucket-shops, etc. I, too, am opposed to bucket-shops, but the inju ry to the cotton producer coming from bucket-shop operations is nil compared with the great hurt which is done him by operations on the so-called legitimate cotton exchanges where fu ture contracts for the delivery of cot ton are dealt in. “For the reason above set forth, I do not expect any substantial aid from the president towards the enact ment of the legislation which I am proposing; in fact, I do not look for any recommendations to the congress by the president on this subject. "I do not believe in the commission plan suggested in your letter. Even though President Roosevelt should sub mit to congress the report above re ferred to with recommendations based? thereon, I believe the best chance for effective legislation must come through the ordinary channels. It is my pur pose to press the bill I have introduc ed for the suppression of gambling in cotton, and I believe that ultimately 1 will succeed in passing it.” SEVENTEEN COTTON MILLS CURTAIL Amoskeag Company Reduces Time of Em ployes to Four Days a Week. The seventeen mills of the Amos keag Manufacturing company of Man chester, N. H., the largest cotton man ufacturing company in the world, em ploying 13,000 hands, began a period of curtailment with the closing of work Thursday night, a change in the work schedule restricting operations to four days a week. The reduction will continue Indefinitely. EXPRESS CAR LOOTED BY BANDITS Two Highwaymen Have Easy Task in Se curing Four Bags of Money. Two men secreted on the New York Bt. Louis Express of the Pennsylvania system, which left Pittsburg at 9:53 Thursday night, entered the express car, overcome the express messenger and escaped with four sealed bags containing currency. The amount taken by the robbers is unknown. WILL DEPORT GLASS WORKERS. Fifteen Men, Illegally Brought to This Country, Must Return Home. Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor has ordered deported as contract laborers fifteen glass workers brought to this country from Belgium. The report in the matter, it is said, indicates that labor unions, whose members the alien contract labor law was intended to protect, have resorted to the importation of foreigners as a result of disagreements with rival unions. SPEER SIGNS ORDER Id Complaint Filed by Georgia-Florida Sawmill Association Against the Railroads. Attorneys representing H. H. Tift and others forming the Georgia-Flor ida Sawmill Association filed com plaint in the United States court at Macon Friday against the railroads, of the Southeastern Tariff Associa tion on account of alleged failure of the lines Ho make the .returns every three months of such collec tions of freight charges on lumber to Ohio river points and the west as come under the ruling in the famous Tift case in which a permanent in junction ordered by Judge Emory Speer stopped the payment of an ex tra 2 cents per hundred pounds. Judge Speer signed an order in tho bill requiring the railway lines to show cause before him in Macon, on May 12, why they should not be called upon to pay over the $500,000 indem nity bond they made when the court agreed to allow the returns to be made and the shipments to continue under the tariff which was attacked by lumbermen. A large number of claims have been established by the lumber producers under the arrange ments, but it is now a requirement upon the part of the railway lines that they make reports of what amounts they have received on the extra tar iffs every three months. FIRST MOVE INAUGURATED Looking to Purchasing Embassy Buildings in Foreign Countries. The senate committee on appropri ations Friday took the first step look ing to the acquisition of property for the American embassy at Paris by in serting an advertisement in the dip lomatic and consular appropriation bill appropriating $400,000 for the pur chase of a site and the erection of a building for the use of the embassy in that city. An appropriation of $3,267, also,was made for the purchase of the residence of the Japanese secretary of the American embassy at Tokio, Japan. Still another addition to the bill made by the committee is that of SIO,OOO to pay the expenses of representatives of the joint high commission of 1898 for the settlement of questions relat ing to Canada. All told the commit tee increased the appropriation car ried by the diplomatic bill to the to the extent of $463,642 over the amount carried by the bill as it pass ed the house, bringing the total up to $3,967,985. MONEY DISAPPEARS FROM TRAIN. Wells-Fargo Express Company Reports Loss of Sixty-Three Thousand. The Weils-Fargo Express company has reported to the authorities of Tor reon, Mexico, a loss of $63,000 in Mexican currency which, they claim, was taken from a through safe on their City of Mexico train. The mon ey was consigned to one of the banks of Chihuahua. It appears that one of the agents of the company boarded the express train at a, station between the City of Mexico and Torrecn, afterwards leaving the train. It is said that he was the only man who was in the car who knew the combination of the safe. He is being searched for, but has not yet been apprehended. PRISON TERM FOR LETTEN. Embezzling Ex-Clerk of Tax Collector Sen tenced to Seven Years. Charles L. Letten, formerly chief clerk in the office of the state tax collector for the first district of New Orleans, was Friday sentenced to serve seven years in the penitentiary after a jury had declared him guilty of embezzling SIOO,OOO. Letten disapeared last summer and upon the discoverey of the shortage in his accounts a search for him was be gun. He was finally found cn the river front, where he had been attempt ing to summon up sufficient courage \o drown himseif. NOTED DIVINE CROSSES RIVER. Dr. Morgan Dix Passes Away at His Horn® in New York Aged 81. Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trin ity Protestant Episcopal parish in New York since 1862, and one of the city’s most prominent clergymen, died Wed nesday at Trinity rectory in West Twenty-fifth street. Death followed a brief illness. Dr. Dix was 81 years old, and was born in New York city. H e was a son of General John A. Dix, author of the famous dispatch: “If anyone at tempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.”