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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1909)
HIS TURN. —Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Star. BUILDS IDEAL TOWN IN HER IMAGINATION. - If It Existed ’Tv/ould Be a “Slightly Elevated Spot Somewhere in Now Jersey" —Only One Church Needed, and Little For Lawyers and Doctors to Do—Mrs. Pattison Tells Womens Civic Club About It. Arlington. N. J. —Mrs. Mary Patti ron. president of the New Jersey Women’s Federated Clubs, has built the ideal village -in her imagination. But she is sure that, if such a place ex isted in fact it. would be “a slightly elevated spot somewhere, of course, in New Jersey.” This is how Mrs. Pattison pictured the ideal village in a talk before the members of the Civic Club of Ar lington : ‘‘Let us take an imaginary jour ney,” she said, "to a slightly elevated spot somewhere—-of* course in New Jersey—and build an ideal village or town. Let there be a clean, wide sweep of greensward shaded with trees and cut with winding roads, a few hills and a cool, picturesque val ley to one side, through which a clear, happy rivulet curls its way untain-ed with sewerage and disease-carrying insects and unspoiled by the dumps of refuse usually deposited along such banks. Let u see there instead grass, flowers and birds. “On one of these hills near by we find a roomy school house, than which nothing better is known, where the children are being educated in the real things of life, in common sense, and in industrial and organic matters, with no danger of forced mentality. Here we find usefulness with beauty of method; as a result, horse or coarse play and disrespect are un known; individual and careful think ing are encouraged, and appreciation is developed, with charm of manner and the cultivation of the healthiest bodies. ‘'ln the centre of the town, near a few choice shons and offices, we find an airy and well built market, where only the best and purest foods can be bought, not necessarily luxuries, hut the substantial varieties that make blood and muscle strong and of good quality—a place where it is not suffi cient to simply label the contents of packages, but where it is necessary to tell which beefsteak has had its juice AMERICAN HABITS ARE BREEDING INSANITY So Says Dr. Crafts ancf Names Alcohol and Special Maladies as Chief Causes. St. Louis. That conditions of American life promote insanity and that heredity, alcohol and a special group of diseases are rapidly increas ing the number of insane persons in proportion to the total population were statements made by Dr. Leo M. Crafts, of Minneapolis, before the Mississippi Valley Medical Associa tion. Dr. Crafts, giving figures for States which he said were typical, showed the extent to which insanity had in creased in this country during the past generation. The insane percent age of Illinois as typical of this sec tion, he said, in the past thirty years AUTO DUST FIEND HAS REVENGE Me Rushes Through Darien, Conn., With a Tree Drag gins Behind and Yet Breaks No Law. South Norwalk, Conn. —The police and public of Darien are up in arms over the actions of a New York auto mobilist who is. they say, the mean est man on earth. This man. whose number they think is 1770. fastens a large limb to the rear of his machine and. with this trailing in the road, he <r oes racing through the town, leaving a cloud of dust which entire ly envelops him and the machine number, and which leaves the town sputtering and fuming, winking and blinking, for some minutes. Even the Rev. H. S. Brown has joined in the protest, saying that the nuisance is the cause of perversion, extracted, what fish and fowl have been embalmed, what animals died in disease, and what fruit has had its natural fermentation stopped by the use of preservatives. It is, in fact, a place to buy food where one is not in danger of one's life, or worse, one's health, at every turn. ‘‘Let us perhap; build two churches ' in our beautiful village, although that ! may be one too many, but let there be j one opening the gate of heaven ! through the intellectual door or un- I der the portal of the understanding I where reason reigns and science | proves; then a little further on let us ! find another, bringing God on earth through the aid of the emotions, with the heart as the knower and the senses trained to love. Let them both be beautiful, but let us go first to one and then the other till in the future they unite. ‘‘Our community is made up of homes, cheerful. normal. happy homes, individual xpression. co operate in management and lovely in design, where the atmosphere is the guiding element, where nothing is held that gives more trouble than worth, where harmony, health and happiness leave not a crevice for hell to peek through. “And now a little walk to the right, and opposite the park we are led to the village clubhouse, a fine pleasure edifice equipped for all ages. Tt is a place where play and gymnastics are supervised, a place for games of all sorts, with rooms for music, art, dancing, etc., and for that foolish frivolity without which society would lose its charms. “May we keep our hand to tlm wheel, and help to usher in the new r village home, if not in detail, at least in essence—a home where one might free the spirit by just living, where doctors and lawyers are at the mini mum in number and teachers at the maximum, a place where only health is known, and w r here the whole air rings with life,” has increased four times as rapidly as has the population. Other States and sections were no better off, he said. According to Dr. Crafts, other countries were developing insanity through American habits. Since Japan adopted Western methods of doing things the proportion of insane persons in that empire has rapidly in creased. The negro was also pointed to as furnishing another example of a race incapable of adoption of Ameri can methods and environment with out an increase in the number of those who go crazy and have to be 1 confined in retreats. and that a match factory would have a better chance of doing business in the atmosphere of the place than a preacher when the dust is in the air. The autoist fastens the large limb to his machine at one end of the town and drops it off at the other end. Under the old Connecticut law Da rien had a reputation for arresting speeding automobilists. As many as fifty were caught in a day and fined. It is thought that the dust fiend is a victim getting even. The new law al lows of no arresting save in extreme speed cases, hut the police intend to arrest him as a common nuisance and put him under bonds. MILITIA NEARING CRISIS January 21 Will Decide Fate of National Guard. REGULAR ARMY STANDARD Unless Various Guard Organizations Conform to Standards They Will Re ceive No More Government Money. Washington, D. C. —January 21, 1910. will b e ;j critical date in the hitsory of the national guard, ofr thereafter no portion of the money appropriated by congress for the sup l*oi i of the militia can be paid to any organization that fails to con form to the standards of the regular army. The Dick bill of 1903, originally pre scribed a period of five years for the bringing about of the considerable changes necessary to place the nation al guardsmen in uniformity of organi eation and equipment with the regu lar ooldicr. Hut as the time limit ap proached, it was found that, vey few of the states had been able to con form, so an extension was granted un til January 21, 1910. As the date grows near, the offi cers of the war department who are directly charged with the administra tion of the law's governing the gela tions of the department with the mi litia are taking stock of the work accomplished and calculating the per centage of the national guard, as it stands today, that will be thus quali fied to retain governmental support. Through it;; system of inspection of militia organizations by regular of ficers, (he war (jejmrtment is in pos session of some exact information re garding the conditions. The detailed results will be made public in the fotrhcoming annual report of Colonel E. Al. Weaver, chief of the division of militia affairs. It may be stated that, on the whole, the war department expresses great satisfaction in the prospect, and the apparent Success attending the work ings of the Dick bill. Next year, for the first time in its history, the mih tia, oi so much of it as remains under the caption of “The National Guard,” will he found armed with the latest pattern of military rifles, clothed from head to foot in regualr army gear; supplied with all regular equipment and with ranks filled to the require ment. of the law. The task has been one of consider able magnitude, and that the difficul ties have been met and overcome by so many of the states and territories of the union, is held by the depart ment as reflecting credit upon the na tional guard officers. In many cases the companies and regiments were mere skeletons; twenty-five men made up an active company in many states. Some organizations had showy dress uniforms for parades, but lacked the homely, businesslike khaki outfits re quired for field service. Still others had only fragments of any kind of uniform —perhaps a soldier’s cap or coat, which, with some discarded style of rifle, was supposed to indicate mem bership in the guard. The improvement in conditions has been general, hut markedly so in the south, which had formerly been re garded as a weak spot by the strict disciplinarians of the regular army, who felt that in that section undue prominence had been given to the so cial and club feattfres by the militia men at the sacrifice of military quali ty. Though lacking the massive bri gades and divisions of the more popu lous northern states, the militia com panies in a number of the southern states are now' reported by the in specting offices to be in a very satis factory condition of conformity to army standards. The west also is doing well, though there are some spots regarded qs weak, notably in Nevada. ENGLISH SUFFRAGETTE ARRIVSS. Lady Cook Comes to United States to Corner Taft. New York Ctiy.—Lady Cook, the widow of a London banker and one of the leading suffragettes of Tngland, arrived here for the purpose of begin ning a campaign to secure the ballot for women in the United States. Lady Cook says that she is ready, if need be, to spend $1,000,000, all her fortune, to win votes for women. She will place the money, she says, with New York bankers. “I am going right to Mr. Taft,” Lady Cook continued, “to see if I cannot get him to do what Lincoln did, but by peaceable measures. I shall call the president's attention to the four teenth amendment of the constitution. The constitution says that only idiots, the insane and convicts may not vote, and 1 want to know if that bars wom en. King Edward, at heart, sympa thizes with us, and so did his mother, Queen Victoria, before him.’’ RUNAWAY COUPLE USED AUTO. Georgia Couple Used Up-to-Cate Methods for Elopement. Augusta, Ga.—John Drewery Comer of Savannah and Miss Maude Hunter Gamble of Louisville were married in North Augusta by Rev. E. M. Light foot, a Methodist minister. Mr. Comer ieft Savannah in his au tomobile and went to Louisville and took Miss Gamble and made their way to Augusta and were married. The marriage was a Gretna Green af fair, and quite a little romance is connected with the runaway. Miss Gamble is a daughter of Judge Gamble, who was for years a superior court judge in this state. Worn Women Women, worn and tired from overwork, need a tonic. That feeling of weakness or helplessness will not leave you of itself. You should take Wine of Cardui, that effectual remedy for the ailments ana weaknesses of women. Thousands of women have tried Cardui and write enthusiastically of the great benefit it has been to them. Try it —don’t experiment —use this reliable, oft-tried medicine. 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