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HAVING FUN WITH SMITH
partment in corn culture “has discovered the very peculiar fact that in the
case of corn bread, say, in the senator’s state and corn bread in a place some
distance away, if the seed is interchanged it will not breed back to type; so
that they have bred these varieties in the different environments in order to
get the variety best adapted to each.”
Jones wanted to know “is that the reason why we cannot get any good
corn bread any more.”
Smith answered that “the reason we do not get any good corn bread any
more is because they really are not housing the corn before it is put on the
market.”
Jones thought “if we had good corn we could get good corn bread when
you find someone who knows how to make it.”
Smith promised “if the senator will visit me some time, I will give him
good pone corn bread.”
3 WEBB’S EARLY DAYS
When Edward Yates Webb of
North Carolina, chairman of the house
judiciary committee, had made his way
through college and law school he
found himself, at the age of twenty
one, some S6OO in debt.
Seeing that he was in debt and
without clients, Webb at once went
about getting himself engaged to be
married. There was a pretty girl, the
daughter of a professor at the little
college he had attended, who had been
willing to listen attentively when
Webb talked about himself and his
ambitions, and so, of course, there
was nothing to it. The girl’s mother
asked Webb how he proposed to sup
port a wife inasmuch as he was a
clientless attorney.
“Oh,” says he, bravely thumping
his chest, “I’ll go out and hoe corn if
necessary.”
That seemed to cheer up the moth
er a good deal and she consented to
the engagement. The young folks were to be married that fall, and during t]ie_
summer Webb got a first-rite start
During a recent illness of Senator
Gore it was necessary for Senator
Smith of South Carolina, as the next
ranking member of the committee on
agriculture, to handle the appropria
tion bill for the department of agricul
ture.
The Republican senators —especi-
ally Jones of Washington and Smoot
of Utah —had a good deal of fun in a
dignified way out of Smith, because
even an uninformed senator could see
that he didn’t know a blessed thing
about the bill he was trying to man
age.
Mr. Jones asked how long it had
been since special appropriations had
been made for the study of corn im
provement and com production. Mr.
Smith could not answer the question,
but claimed to know that “the in
vestigation is still in process of de
velopment.” Smith explained “just so”
that the experimentation of the de-
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
Whole Empire to Take
Part in War Council
Representatives of British Do
minions to Sit With Lloyd
George’s Advisers.
WILL SHAPE FUTURE POLICY
Everything Affecting Conduct of War
and Negotiations for Peace Will
Be Considered by Colonial
Premiers Sitting With
Inner War Board.
London. —Vast changes for King
George V’s far-flung dominions, indeed
for the whole world, are bound up in
the great congress of the British em
pire to be held here.
Representatives of the British em
pire’s leading elements have met be
fore, but more as a matter of cere
mony and form. This time they come
to London to do things. They will con
sider and decide all important policies
now at issue having to do both with
present problems and with those which
are expected to come up at the close of
the conflict.
In this unprecedented meeting, as
in the several military and economic
councils of the entente allies and even
in the similar gatherings of the Teu
tonic nations and their allies, experi
ence is being gained which will do
much to further the world-wide co-op
eration now the goal of most construc
tive thinkers.
Premier David Lloyd-George has
promised that the representatives of
the dominions shall sit with the inner
British war board of five members —
not in the sense that a visitor is in
vited to sit beside a judge on the
bench, but as voting equals.
The Welsh leader’s far-seeing eye
has discerned that in this way lies
safety for Britain —that only by mak
ing the world-girdling empire an or
ganization of peers can real co-opera
tion and the full development of Brit
ish strength be attained.
Will Sit in Council.
Here are the men who will sit in
this imposing council:
For Great Britain: David Lloyd
For New Zealand: Premier William
Ferguson Massey.
For Australia: Premier William Mor
ris Hughes.
For India: Two members of the
privy council, one-a Hindu and one a
Mohammedan.
What the council will consider was
very clearly stated by Premier Lloyd
George in a statement to the Austra
lian Universal Cable service, a news
syndicate in which the leading Anti
podean newspapers are members. He
said:
“This council will deal with all gen
eral questions affecting the war. The
t
General Jan Christian Smuts.
prime ministers or their representa
tives will be members of the war
council, and we propose to arrange
that all matters of first importance
shall be considered at its meetings.
"Nothing affecting the dominions,
the conduct of the war or the nego
tiations for peace will be excluded
from the scope of its authority. There
will, of course, be domestic questions
which each part of the empire must
settle for itself. Such domestic mat
ters will be our only reservation. But
we propose that everything else shall
be, so to speak, on the table.
Entitled to a Say.
“You do not suppose that our over
seas nations can raise and place in
of cost beyond all praise and in a com
mon cause without establishing a unity
such as never existed until now.”
Although the British empire now
presents a united front to the Teutons
such a spirit of union has not always
marked its history.
War has united the empire; first,
the Boer struggle, and, second, the
present titanic conflict.
Were Object Lessons.
The two wars were object lessons
for the provincial Londoners. In this
war more than a million fine soldiers
have already left their homes to fight
for their king in France, in East Af
rica, in Mesopotamia, in Egypt and on
the Gallipoli peninsula. On the latter
spot they died by the ten thousand in
a hopeless attempt to take impregna
ble positions.
The caliber of the colonial leaders
who will come here is not inferior to
that of the British leaders with whom
they will confer. Perhaps the strong
est and most interesting personality
among them is Premier Hughes of Aus
tralia.
When he visited England for the
first time a year ago he impressed Eng
lishmen deeply.
Hughes weighs less than 100 pounds,
has chronic dyspepsia, and shows
about ten times as much energy as an
ordinary 200-pound man in full health.
He started life as an itinerant
schoolmaster in Australia, carrying a
pack about the country and teaching
frontiersmen’s children. Then he
opened %p a little general store near
the wharves in Sydney, became ac
quainted with the dock laborers and
headed the trades union movement.
He rose rapidly to be a Labor member
of the assembly of New South Wales,
then a member of the Australian com
monwealth parliament, then minister
of external affairs, and finally premier
in the first Labor cabinet the nation
had ever known.
Some of the Others.
Premier Massey of New Zealand is
an Irishman born, who went to the
Antipodes when six years old, and
was engaged in farming before turn
ing to statesmanship.
General Smuts was one of the best
Boer leaders In the war against Great
Britain 17 years ago. Today he is one
of King George’s most loyal and ener
getic subjects—a wonderful tribute to
the conciliatory ability of the British
empire.
Premier Botha, for whom he is a
substitute at the imperial council table,
is also a former famous Boer leader.
Botha cannot come to London, partly
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No Obstruction Before Them.
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way to Eureka by auto came to a fork
in the road and were uncertain whiclf
to take. Finally they saw an old man
digging in a hillside a short distance
ahead. They drove up, and when op
posite him one called out, “We want to
go to Eureka. Is this the right road?”
