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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
A Notable Washington Tribute
To Georgia's Senior Senator
BSERVING that Senator Hoke Smith
has entered the Georgia preferen
-1 tial primary for the San Francisco
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nomination, the Washington (D. J.) Even
ing Star, one of the great independent jour
nals of America, declares, “His State should,
and probably will, instruct for him. Then
follows a discerning and impartial discus
sion of Senator Smith’s qualifications for the
Presidency, along with some searching re
marks on the South’s long effacement from
Democracy’s highest honor. The editorial is
so timely and withal so interesting that we
reproduce it elsewhere on this page, assured
that it will be read with satisfaction by a
host of Georgians and Southerners.
The Star’s pronouncement is chiefly sig
nificant as showing that the belief in Sena
tor Smith’s availability for the Presidential
nomination is by no means confined to his
own Commonwealth nor to his own section,
but is shared by keen and disinterested ob
servers elsewhere. In the national capital
there is no more conservative or highly re
garded paper than the Washington Star, none
with finer traditions or larger outlook. It
appraises Senators and Congressmen, not ac
cording to the regions from which they hail
nor the factions with which they are identi
fied, nor the spectacular courses they may
happen to pursue, but by the actual ability
which they manifest and the national service
which they render. It is from this point of
view and from long, first-hand study of his
career that the Star makes its editorial esti
mate of Georgia’s senior Senator, reckoning
him “as of Presidential size.”
It needs only an informed and impartial
eye to see that of all present candidates for
the nomination, Democratic or Republican, '
Senator Smith, of Georgia, is far the ablest, !
the most experienced, the best balanced, the
broadest-visioned. This is not said byway
of invidious comparison, but simply as a fact
freely admitted by competent and unpreju
diced judges. No such judge, we take it,
would deny that in point of legal attainments,
administrative efficiency and practical in
sight, not to mention political prowess, Sena
tor Smith outranks Mr. Palmer. Mr. Gerard,
Senator Harding, General Wood, Governor
Lowden, Senator Hiram Johnson or any
other of the avowed aspirants to the Presi
dency. Nor can it be gainsaid that he is
more of a truly national figure than any of
them.
His historic services to the far West dur
ing his administration of the Department of
the Interior in the second Cleveland Cabinet
left an indelible imprest upon the mind and
heart of that region. His services to the
cause of American agriculture have placed
him high in the esteem of every grain-pro
ducing as well as every cotton-producing
State. His services to commerce and indus
try in his telling advocacy of sound banking
and currency legislation and other useful
economic measures commend him to the na
tion’s best business thought. His services In
the effective prosecution of the war, par
ticularly on the Appropriations Committee,
where his influence hastened mobilization of
the country’s every resource, and :on the
Military Affairs Committee, to which he was
assigned at the special request of his col
leagues, entitles him to all America’s grati
tude.
A national figure he truly is in the com
mon country’s estimation. His own State
and his own Southland can well afford to
urge his name as their choice at the San
Francisco convention.
The Free Seed Comedy.
’HE free seed graft lives, notwith
standing the altogether laudable at
tempt of the dignified Senate to
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kill the abuse. The members of the House
of Representatives, who regard the free dis
tribution of garden and flower seed as one
of their most precious Congressional per
quisites, would not hear to its abolition,
and they held up a big Government supply
bill until the Senate receded from its amend
ment eliminating the appropriation for the
purchase of the seed.
The free seed comedy is staged annually
in Congress. The lower House makes pro
vision for the purchase and distribution of
garden and flower seed. The Senate usually
strikes the provision. Then the conferees
wrestle for days over the appropriation
until finally the Senate yields and the money
is provided from the public funds to con
tinue an ancient tcustom which Representa
tives believe helps them to re-election.
The actual cost of the seed is small as
compared to the usual Government ex
penditures. The item in the bill carries
only $240,000 for the purchase of the seed,
but that is the least of the expense in
volved. The seed is packed in envelopes
which are bought, printed, labelled and ad
dressed at the expense of the Government.
There is no telling how high this cost runs.
Then they are mailed, postage free, to all
parts of the United States and its posses
sions—tons of them in the aggregate—and
of course, the cost of carriage falls upon
the Government.
If discrimination were used in the dis
tribution of the seed there would be less
justice in the criticism that is aroused by
the expenditure of the public money. But
there is no discrimination. The Representa-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
I tive whQse constituency is in the heart of
a tenement district, where there are neither
flower nor vegetable gardens,, is given the
same allotment of seed as the Representative
whose constituency is made up of people to
whom the seed are of some real use. The lack
of discrimination doesn’t stop here, either.
Each Representative is given a certain num
ber of seed. No judgment is displayed in their
apportionment to the several Representatives.
Each man gets the same assortment, so that
millions of seed are mailed out at Govern
ment expense to sections of the country where
the seed will not mature and can be used
only as chicken provender.
Members of Congress rest under the im
pression that the distribution of seed is help
ful to their political fortunes, and until their
minds have been disabused of this mistaken
belief it is probable that the free seed graft
will continue to live. Millions of words have
been written in ridicule of the custom, but
millions more will be required before the
members of Congress will give up this use
less perquisite.
Every County Committee
Should Provide a Primary
T is of the utmost importance, as a
matter of public duty and popular
rights, that county Democratic execu-
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tive committees throughout Georgia heed the
urgent appeal of Chairman Flyjit and Secre
tary Gardner, of the State Committee, con
cerning arrangements for the forthcoming
Presidential primary. .
In its original announcement authorizing
the primary to be held an-i fixing April the
20th as the time therefor the State commit
tee, as these officials explain, “requested the
county executive committees to hold their
primaries on that date, except where such
primaries had already been held.” It was
only by this plan that a representative ex
pression of the people’s preference could be
obtained. The State committee having no
funds or machinery of its own for carrying
out the details of a primary, necessarily
looked to the local party officials in each
county; and it is to them, moreover, that
the public itself looks for the Initiative and
service needed to open and conduct the polls.
While a number of county committees al
ready have taken steps to this end, many
have not yet done so. Wherefore the State
committee rightly urges that “a splendid
patriotic service can and ought to be ren
dered by the county executive committee in
every county” by providing without further
delay for a ballot box expression on April
the 20th.
This can be done at little or no expense
and without undue exertion by anyone, if
county committee members and their public
spirited fellow citizens will co-operate for
the common good. Surely there is enough
appreciation of the vital importance of the
issues In this primary, and enough work
manly patriotism, to provide a full force of
volunteers to serve as managers, clerks and
in other essential duties! The questions of
policy and principle involved in the Geor
gia Presidential primary are of such great
moment to the party and to the nation that
no Democrat should be denied the oppor
tunity of voting on them; nor will anything
less than a truly representative expression
,from the rank and file suffice. It-is for the
county executive committees to determine
whether or not that opportunity and that
expression shall be vouchsafed. So weighty
a responsibility cannot be thrown off and
should not be deferred. Let every county
executive committee which has not taken
proper action do so at once.
Saving Millions on Cotton.
’HE news that another 1 cotton ware
house is in prospect for Floyd coun
ty directs attention to one of the pe-
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' culiarly important needs of Georgia and the
entire South.
Adequate facilities for storing, grading and
protecting cotton will save the agricultural
and business interests of this region mil
lions if not billions of dollars. So high and
conservative an authority as Congressman
Lever, of South Carolina, has estimated that
the wastage from exposure and careless han
dling alone amounts to enough to provide most
of the highway and common school improve
ments of which the South is so greatly in
need. The practice of dumping cotton along
streets or railroad sidings and leaving it a
prey to rain, wind and,fire was bad enough
in the old days when prices ranged as low
as six or eight cents a pound; but in these
times of high values and excessive costs of
production, it is reprehensible beyond meas
ure. Yet, this waste will continue as long
as there is a dearth of convenient, well
equipped, fireproof warehouses. As a mat
ter of far-reaching and urgently needed econ
omy, therefore, every district which lacks
such facilities should take prompt steps to
procure them.
Another reason to the same
end is the enhanced credit value and market
advantage which cotton derives from the
bonded warehouse. A receipt from such an
institution, excellent collateral that it is,
gives the farmer access to financial resources
which otherwise he could not hope to com
mand. It enables him to hold his cotton for
fair prices instead of having to throw it upon
a crowded and depressed market. This will
not only add millions of dollars to the value
or the cotton crop, but will also give fresh
vigor and stability to the South’s business
m its entirety.
Heartening improvement in this matter has
in re cent years, but the needs
still lack a grievous deal of being supplied.
Leaders in agriculture, commerce and finance
wMlth en n er th - ir communit y and common
? service more substantial than the
establishment of bonded warehouses for con
serving cotton’s value.
Buy Your Coal Now
•USEHOLDERS are urged by the
United States Coal Commission
to lay in their supply of coal for
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next winter. The suggestion should com
mend itself to the favorable considera
tion of all persons who expect to re
main next winter i nthe quarters they now
occupy. Certainly it will appeal to all such
persons who have suffered inconvenience and
discomfort in the past through their failure
to store their fuel in advance of its actual
need.
The Coal Commission is not so much inter
ested in the consumer of coal as it is in the
coal miner, and the urgent request of the
Commission proceeds from its desire to pro
vide employment during the summer months
for the men who mine the coal. Hitherto, in
the warm season, the mining of coal has
ceased in order to permit the mines to rid
themselves of the accumulation of fuel—an
accumulation due to the fact that the public
quit buying coal when the warm weather
comes.
If the public will buy coal during the sum
mer months, the accumulation at the mines
will be held to a minimum and the miners
will have employment during the warm
weather. The enforced summer vacations of
the miners were in part responsible for their
demands last fall that threatened a disastrous
strike.
The appeal of the Coal Commission reminds
the public of an opportunity for helpful co
operation to avert labor troubles, but also to
relieve the transportation system of the coun
try of an overburden of fuel carriage that seri
ously interferes with commerce and industry.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Lady Geddes, wife of the newly appointed
British Ambassador, is generally spoken of as
an American woman. This, the Pall Mall Ga
zette, a London newspaper, points out, is in
correct. Lady Geddes was born in New York
State and educated at Windsor, Nova Scotia,
but she is the daughter of W. A. Ross, of
Belfast, Ireland, who spent his life in Ameri
ca, but who, the paper says, was never nat
uralized.
Organize d labor has opened its non-parti
san political campaign, the object of which
is to defeat foes of the working men.
Talk of President Wilson running for a
third term is again prevalent. Propaganda
has been floated by the Tariff Reform
League, urging his re-election and insisting
that a survey taken during the past year
shows that there are ten million men voters
who favor drafting Wilson and Marshall for
another term in office.
Senator Borah introduced a bill to prohibit
presidential candidates from expending more
than SIO,OOO for campaign purposes prior to
their nomination. The bill would exempt
expenditure for traveling, telegrams or cir
culars, but would include expenditures by as
sociations or individuals unless publicly re
jected by the candidates, under penalties of
$20,000 fine and two years’ imprisonment.
A score of religious have
launched an interchurch movements under
the direction of former Secretary of State
Lansing, to combat the Red menace.
Stimulation of the production of power al
cohol for use as motor fuel was urged in a
report submitted to the House of Representa
tives by Representative Dyer, of Missouri,
from the judiciary committee.
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, so-called Soviet
Ambassador to the/United States, sued the
Review of Reviews, Albert Shaw, the editor,
and Arthur Wallace Dunn in the Supreme
Court for $1,000,000 damages because of
an article by Mr. Dunn in the February
number entitled, “The Reds in America.”
The article stated that Martens was spread
ing propaganda “looking to the destruc
tion of the government of the United
States, ’ which the plaintiff says is false.
un^ers t° o( l on good authority that
Charles Lively, Federal Prohibition Director,
made the statement that an owner of his
home in West Virginia may move his liquor
to his residence in another state.
Henry Morgenthau, former United States
Ambassador to Turkey, has been selected bv
President Wilson as Ambassador to Mexico.
He succeeds former Ambassador Fletcher
who resigned not long ago.
M °k a o Commitme nt on which Ada
M. and Phoebe Brush, aged sisters, were con
fined m the Kikgs Park State Hospital for
tLe Insane in New York for the past ten
years, was defended in a statement given out
by the state hospital commission. The wom
en were recently released from the hospital
and immediately made charges that they had
been illegally held for ten years onTeX
XlTten days" 7 intended t 0 de,aln them
According to information given to a New
York newspaper, it is understood that onium
13 juggled into this country in large
quantities. Mrs. Ing Sai Wah, twenty-three
white wife of a Chinese actor, was arrested in
Chinatown, New York, and held In $2,000
bail by United States Commissioner Hitch
cock. It became known that her husband
was apprehended on the same charge several
weeks ago.
When Wah was arrested in his apartment
at No. 117 West Twenty-sixth street, a large
quantity of opium copper containers and
plates for printing labels were confiscated.
Small six-ounce containers, manufactured
in New York City, were shipped to Canada
for packing the opium.
HOW IDEAS COME
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE are two great requirements for
the gaining of bright ideas, of original
ity, of inspiration in any calling in
life. One of these is concentration of thought,
the other distraction of thought.
This is true of the merchant as of the poet.
It is true of the financier as of the scientist.
It holds universally true, no matter what
one’s occupation.
Men fool themselves sadly if they think
they- can gain ideas merely by patient, de
liberate, unremitting effdrt. But they equally
fool themselves if they expect ideas to come
to them without effort whatever.
To be sure, the testimony of numerous
“men of genius” would on the surface sup
port the latter belief.
“My compositions,” Mozart confessed,
“come involuntarily, like dreams.” And from
his brother composer, Hoffman:
“When I compose I sit down to the piano,
shut my eyes, and play what I hear.”
To quote De Musset:
“One does not work, one listens. It is as
though another were speaking into ..tie’s
ear.”
All of which —as similarly the “accident
al” and “unexpected” discoveries made by
such architects of human progress as New
ton, Galileo, and Darwin—certainly seem to
give color to the view that effort has little
to do with the gaining of ideas.
But the comment of Joly is much to the
point:
“It will be difficult to aver that a man
has ever been inspired in an art other than
that which he understands and practices
continually, and for which he has a natural
inclination.” /
On the opposite, how many men there be
who practice an art—or a business—persis
tently, doggedly, without ever enjoying the
inspiration of brilliant, creative ideas.
The trouble with these others is that they
do not sufficiently comply with the second
great requirement for ideas—distraction of
thought. i .
Ideas, the statements from Mozart and the
rest make very clear, are derived from that
part of the mind known to psychologists as;
the subconscious. There they are manufac
tured out of the materials put into the mind
by conscious thinking and study.
But there, too, the results of the subcon
scious processes must remain, unless given
due opportunity to ex-nerge above the thres
hold of unconsciousness. And this opportu
nity is denied them if the conscious part .of
the mind is forever kept concentrated and
active, whether at work or m play.
But let distraction be gained—the distrac
tion that comes with reverie, day dreaming,
idle musing during a leisurely stroll—and
the subconscious has this needed opportunity
to present the products of its hidden work
ing.
In other words, men who would get the
most they can out of their minds should
train themselves to take mental vacations as
well as to concentrate vigorously. Distrac
tion of mind, complete relaxation of mind, is
fully as necessary as intensity and fixity of
the attention.
The more happily the two are conjoined
The famous botanical gardens in Washing
ton will shortly be 100 years old, but this
is beside the point. The gardens have gal
lons upon gallons of alcoholic liquor—most
of it bottled in bark, to be sure—but it has
just been discovered. So, if all goes well,
the one hundredth birthday anniversary of
the gardens will be celebrated by all the
leading citizens, diplomats and officials of
the national capital, and the line will form
to the right.
Not until the chieftains of a tribe of
Apache Indians journeyed to Washington
and visited the gardens did the secret come
out.
A tall, grave Indian stopped before the
Areca Sapida tree, which, as the crow flies,
is about a mile from the office of John F.
Kramer, chief prohibition enforcement offi
cer, and only several blocks from the na
tional capitol, where the dry law was voted
into effect, and looked in astonishment.
The Indian whispered something to his
companion. The latter’s bronze face lighted
up in an ethereal smile.
“How come?” he was heard to say.
“U-umph,” muttered the other, cautiously
drawing a pocket knife, which which he
tapped the tree.
He stopped swiftly, permitted the placid
liquor to pursue a leisurely course into his
innards, and his companion followed suit.
But at that moment a guard appeared on
the scene and bellowed:
“What’s the big idea?”
The trouble is, though, that the Indians’
discovery shortly became public property.
An investigation was ordered and George
W. Hess, director of the gardens, found he
had any number of natural stills on his pre
serves, but this is not the end of the trouble.
The botanical gardens are used largely for
propagation of plants, and now horticultur
ists all over the country are writing for baby
Areca Sapidas, sprigs of the Paraguay tea
tree and other shrubs, trees and roots that
have yet to know the mean of 2.75 per cent.
Marriageble young women in China usual
ly wear their hair in a long single plait, in
which is entwined a bright scarlet thread.
The thread indicates that the maiden is
awaiting a life partner.
A day’s pay for a skilled mechanic is not
sufficient to buy a pound of butter at prices
prevailing in Berlin, despite the fact that
large industrial plants are gradually ad
justing their wage scales to the mounting
cost of living. The pay in the metal trades
now averages about four marks an hour,
and is generally granted without opposition
by the employers.
Control of rates for call loans without at
the same time limiting speculation would be
“extremely hazarduous,” Governor Harding,
of the federal reserve board, is quoted as
having informed the senate, at Washington.
In reply to a resolution recently adopted in
quiring into the reasons for existing high
rates on call loans.
All places of amusement in Montreal
where admission is charged, in the future
must remain closed on Sundays, according to
an order issued by the provincial attorney
general's department. Concert halls, vaude
vile and motion picture theaters and pool
rooms hitherto have been allowed to do
business in Montreal on Sundays, but else
where in the province the federal Lord’s day
observance act has been enforced by mu
nicipal regulations.
A committee amendment to the postoffice
appropriation bill providing for a transcon
tinental air mail route between New York
and San Francisco via Chicago and Omaha,
Neb., was adopted at Washington by the sen
ate.
An amendment by Senator Gay, Democrat,
Louisiana, routing the transcontinental mail
byway of Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta,
New Orleans, Houston, Tex., and Los An
geles was defeated on a point of order raised
by Chajrman Townsend, of the postoffice
committee.
THE MAN AND THE MASS
By Dr. Frank Crane
Often the strange fact intrudes upon us
that the opposite of everything is also true.
All forces have their reactions.
Progress is not the unresisted, advance
of a steady impulse, but is contended every
step of the way. Civilization, religion, the
arts forge forward like sweating wrestlers,
struggling, fighting against the adversary,
gaining ground so slowly they often seem to
be losing.
There are our institutions, for instance,
which we have builded with so much pains,
for which our fathers died, and to which we
point with satisfaction. Our institutions —
the Ten Commandments—the Church —the
Constitution—Professional Ethics—the Fam
ily—the Nation. We laud and magnify them,
live for them, die for them.
And yet they have their dark side. There
are points of view from which they seem
harsh as a prison wall, and grim, cruel, and
intolerable as malignant fate.
Don’t you know that the most poignant
tragedies have been not those where the
soul struggles against evil, but against the
set institution which was organized for good?
The gods and their laws are for the welfare
of men, yet men find their supreme horror
in them. From Aeschylus to Hamlet so reads
the record.
I ran across this passage the other day in
George Gissing’s “Henry Ryecroft:” “Take
a man by himself, and there is generally
some reason to be found in him, some dispo
sition for good. Mass him with his fellows
in the social organism, and ten to one he
becomes a blatant creature, without a
thought of his own, ready for any evil to
which contagion prompts him. It is because
nations tend to stupidity and baseness that
mankind moves so slowly; it is because in
dividuals have a capacity for better tilings
that it moves at all. In my youth, looking
at this man and that, I marveled that human
ity had made so little progress. Now, look
ing at men in the multitude, I marvel that
they have advanced so far.”
What a light this observation throws upon
':’i3 doings of men!
The German army, composed of quite hu
man beings, for the most part like unto our
selves, as an Organization, a System, becomes
a bloody ogre.
The Church, made up of gentle, kindly
folk, as an Institution has been capable of
what atrocities of persecution
and hardness of heart!
Bolshevism, whose devotees dream of
Brotherhood and Justice and Equality, is
transformed as an Organization with power
into a ravening beast, a slavering monster.
The man as an individual, gentle, loving
his children, generous to his neighbors ana
warm of heart, is often changed, when he
becomes a member of a Political Party, a
Board of Directors or som.e other corporate
thing, into a blind, inhuman, vicious pirate.
Efficiency is desirable, but efficiency which
has dropped Humanity is an unclean Thing,
a Horror from the Pit.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
the greater the likelihood of originality-'
They are complementaries, needed in unison
to become dynamically effective.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1920.
THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST
A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current
Questions and Events
SENATOR NEWBERRY’S “LEGITIMATE
EXPENSES”
When our neighbor, the TIMES, says there
was no corruption in the Newberry cam
paign; that the great sums used were spent
for “legitimate expenses, such as advertising,
publicity, transportation, etc.;” that there
was no bribery or other “guilt or crime in
it,” and that no one convicted of what is
nothing but a “law-made crime” “feels any
moral guilt or shame” or “loses his stand
ing,” a newspaper which ought to know bet
ter is simply parroting the flimsy defense
that judge and jury at Grand Rapids rejected
on their oaths.
The testimony shows that Michigan was
plastered with Newberry money. Everybody
supposed to have influence who would take
it received his price. It went to individuals,
Republicans and Deomcrats alike, who were
thought to be useful; to political, social, in
dustrial and religious organizations; to news
papers, not always in payment for advertis
ing, and to liquidate the expense accounts of
persons who never traveled a mile, as they
have admitted under oath. To say that such
practices are “honest and legitimate,” in
volving no moral wrong and that a law unnec
essarily severe condemns what at the worst
is nothing but “a foolish waste of money,”
should delight the heart of every idolater of
the dollar-god, convicted or still at large, but
it is false.
Newberry and his crowd were not found
guilty oof any technical violation of law.
The evidence submitted by the prosecution
showed knowledge of the risks they were
taking and the purpose that they had in
view. Confident that riches and partisan
ship would protect them, they were banded
together in a conspiracy to buy a senator
ship. In England a candidate elected to
the house of commons who admitted, as
Newberry did, the expenditure of $178,000
would have been expelled ipso facto. Here
he is banqueted by exclusive clubs and ap
plauded by newspapers as following only a
harmless custom.—NEW YORK WORLD
(Dem.)
COAL WAGES AND PRICES
Piesident Wilson has made public the ma
jority and minority reports of his coal com
mission. He describes the majority report
with the accompanying awards as binding,
and calls upon both miners and operators to
convoke at once a joint conference which
shall put the awards into effect. At the same
time he abolishes the government control of
bituminous coal prices on and after April 1.
It will be remembered that the majority
award amounted to about 27 per cent of ex
isting wages, and that it had nothing to say
with respect to prices to the consumer.
Here is what seems to be a suggestion to
the coal industry that it should “get togeth
er on the wage basis outlined by the commis
sion and transfer the burden to the consumer
in the form of higher prices, for which an
“open season” now appears to be declared.
The question of prices and wages and the
relation between the two was the rock upon
which both Dr. Garfield, the president’s for
mei coal commissioner, and various members
HOME WITHOUT FATHER—By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK, April I.—Recently a citv
official, walking from his office to
the elevator, noticed a couple of
small boys sitting on a bench in the corri
dor. It seemed to him that he had seen the
same children patiently sitting there the day
before, and perhaps the day before that. He
beckoned to the office boy and asked him if
he knew why the two small boys were there.
“Sure,” said the office boy. “It’s because
she ain’t got nowhere else to leave them.”
“Who hasn’t anywhere else to leave them?”
persisted the city official.
“Why, your secretary,” declared the office
boy in surprise. “Didn’t you know they were
hers? She brings them from Staten Island
with her every morning, because she hasn’t
anybody to leave them with over there, and
they just sit here on this bench till she’s
ready to take them home again at night.”
Fortunately for this particular working
mother, as well as several others sharing her
predicament, something has been done just
recently here in New York. A Working
Mothers’ Co-Operative Home Club has been
opened at 60 West Ninety-second street,
where mothers may live at a reasonable
boarding rate with their children, and leave
them in the care of trained specialists while
they are away at work. While the idea was
borrowed from a somewhat similar enter
prise, known as the Mothers’ Club in Chi
cago, this New York club has many special
features which' make it unique among institu
tions caring for children.
At the sound of a bell, Betty rushes to her
small locker in the play room, as a fire engine
horse runs to its harness; grabs her tiny wash
cloth and towel and minute cake of soap, and,
carrying them to the bathroom, performs her
midday ablutions in the best Ethical Culture
Society manner. When at length she comes
forth with shiny face and spotless hands, she
methodically replaces her toilet articles in the
locker, and ties around her neck a small white
bib. Then she joins the procession of equally
precocious youngsters, headed for the noon
day meal in the dining-room.
The teachers say they have noticed an en
couraging improvement in table manners dur
ing the four weeks that the club has been in
operation. At first, the children were apt to
indulge in wild hilarity at luncheon and to
slip undesired morsels under the tables, or
behind the radiator when they wished to pre
tend that their appetites were all that they
should be. But since the discovery of a huge
pile of crusts under the radiator a couple of
weeks ago, and a serious talk to the young
culprits on the necessity of these despised
bits in the up-keep of hardy tummies and
teeth, quiet has reigned supreme in the
dining-room. Perhaps the color of the room,
which is a cool, quiet green, has something
to do with it.
The meals are planned by an expert dieti
tian, and cooked in a sunny, sanitary kitchen.
A special diet is prepared for the young chil
dren, who have their dinner at noon and a
light supper- at five o’clock, after which they
are put to bed by the club’s nurse.
Dr. Herman Schwartz, the well-known New
York child specialist, has undertaken to
supervise the health of the children, so that
the mothers are also relieved of all worry
in this regard. If Johnny has adenoids, or
Joan’s teeth need fixing, there is always a
sympathetic committee to advise and direct
the mothers in having Johnny and Joan put
in repair.
Mrs. Simon Frankel, president of the com
mittee responsible for the club, insists that
credit for its inception belongs to Mrs. Henry
J. Wurzburg, of Chicago. As long ago as last
summer, Mrs. Wurzburg, it seems, called at
tention to the splendid work the Mothers’
Club in Chicago was doing, and asked her
women friends in New York why they didn’t
start a similar club. These ladies at that
time were still busily engaged'in reconstruc
tion work, but as soon as this became exhaust
ed they decided to tackle Mrs. Wurzburg’s
suggestion. Only, they simply couldn’t resist
making it a little better than the Chicago
club, so they got the Federation of Child
Study, the Teachers’ College and the Ethical
Culture Society to help them make it the best
club of its kind in the world.
“One of the chief virtues of the club,” said
Mrs. Frankel, the other afternoon, as she led
of the cabinet split last autumn, and there
has been no change during the winter from
the situation which then existed. It was at
that time the feeling of many public man
that the consumer was bearing the utmost
he was able in the prices which had been es
tablished and that he was entitled to some
protection. However this may have been,
there seems to be no governmental disposi
tion to accord him any such safeguard.
The public at large supported the activ°-
participation of the cabinet in the coal strike
because of the belief that there was a dispo
sition to look after the interests of the con
sumer, at least, in a limited degree. It will
not relish the action taken as a result of the
wage award made by the coal board be
cause of the failure to consider public wel
fare, nor will it be likely to pay much
attention to the talk about the abstract
rights of the miners. The miners had en
tered into a contract to maintain the old
scale of wages for a definite time, and the
issue last autumn was whether they would
observe that agreement. The new award ab
rogates the old agreement, bitt it gives no
protection as to prices. Apparently the ar
bitration has turned out as unsatisfactorily
as has been true of most of the coal contro
versies of recent years. —NEW YORK
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE (Ind.)
THE EXPOSURE OF RED SOCIALISM.
The halo of martyrdom ill fits the head
of the kind of thing most of the five stood
for when they were speaking their javi mind
privately among their own or cunningly s tir
ring up their followers during their various
campaigns. The indictment of the so-called
Socialist party platform, which is part of the
committee’s report, reveals a situation that
may well give all Americans pause for
thought. \
As the brief filed for the prosecution pointe
out, the suspended Socialists stand for a pro
gram which, “while professing to utilize
political action, constantly denies that exist
ing evils or defects may be remedied by such
action, and insists that such political action
must be supplemented by violence and mass
action, which it advocates, directly as well
as by insinuation and suggestion.” Under
these circumstances, the suggestion that the
assembly pass proper legislation that will
“compel the filing of constitutions, by-laws
and rules and regulations of all political par
ties, associates or groups of citizens who
unite behind candidates in any campaign at
least thirty days before primary elections and
sixty days before a general election,” is not
a bad idea, provided, as planned, that the
right of any group of citizens to nominate ?>
candidate legally shall not be impaired.
If a secret political tyranny exercised by
men opposed'to existing governments and
avowing international relationships be made
impossible in New York and elsewhere, great
good may result from this exposure of Red
Socialism, even if it be admitted that the as
sembly has fumbled in the matter badly in
its specific case against the five men now be
fore its bar for judgment.-—PHILADELPHIA
PUBLIC LEDGER (Ind.)
| the visitor through the clubrooms, “is the
i fact that it has already enabled one or two
mothers to remove their children from insti
tutions. It has been proved over and over
s again that children need the individual atten-
■ tion and affection that their mothers give
i them, and we feel that we are helping to
' make good citizens when we furnish the facili
ties to keep mother and child together.”
> Curiously chough, as Mrs. Frankel stopped
speaking and opened the door to the kinder
, garten playroom, an incident occurred which
verified her words as to the superiority of
mothers over institutions.
1 Little Bobby, looking up from his paint box
■ and seeing two strangers enter, suddenly
. uttered a terror-stricken cry and fled to his
' mother, who had returned from her day’s
; work and was talking to one of the Ethical
1 Society’s teachers in another corner of the
room.
1 I “Why, what’s the matter, son?’.’ said Mrs.
’ Frankel kindly, in the same kind of persua
'■ sive voice she is wont to use to her grandson.
But Bobby, burying his head in his mother’s
lap, left the explanation to her.
‘‘You’ll have to excuse him,” she said,
smiling. “He’s just a little tired and fright
-1 ened.” Then she added gravely: “You see, I
have just had him with me the four weeks
that this club has been opened, and he is
afraid you have come to take him back to the
asylum.”
THE SOUTH AND THE PRESIDENCY
(The Washington (D. C.) Evening Star.)
Hoke Smith has decided to stand in the
Georgia primary for the San Francisco nom
ination. His State should, and probably will,
instruct for him. He is her most distin
! guished living son. Not yet an old man, he
i became a national figure in politics a quar
i ter century ago as a member of Mr. Cleve
land’s second Cabinet. Since then he has
served Georgia as Governor, and is now
serving her as Senator. In these several tvgh
places he has had to do with large and im
portant affairs, and so is reckoned as of
Presidential size. He is as prominent a
1 figure in public life as the South contains.
' If Mr. Smith’s name is presented at the
Convention, with Georgia’s influence behind
’ his candidacy, will other Southern States give
him support? No other Southern man is to-
■ day under discussion for the honor. Mr. Un-
derwood has a fight on his hands for re-elec
tion to the Senate. Champ Clark is not ask
ing for instructions from any State, not even
; his own. Mr. Smith, then, as matters now
appear, will be the only Southern man in the
’ field when the balloting begins.
For quite half a -century the South ?.as
. been the stronghold of the Democratic party.
. She has furnished the bulk of the electoral
■ votes for every one of the Democratic I’resi
. dential tickets in that time. She elected
Grover Cleveland President twice, and Wood
row Wilson twice. She is the party’s main
hope for this year. Whatever difficulties
' may be encountered in the East, or the West,
or in the Middle country, the South is ex
pected to stand fast —to roll up the usual
majorities no matter who may be carrying
the standard, or what the platform contains.
How loyal the South has been to the party
label is shown by the list of the Presidential
candidates for whom she has voted. She
cared little for Seymour. She had detested
Greeley for years, politically and personally.
She rather distrusted Tilden. She admired
Hancock as a brave man. She knew nothing
about Cleveland. She warmed to Bryan be
cause of his wonderful oratory. She grows
orators herself. She'was indifferent to Par
ker, and at Baltimore felt only so-so toward
Wilson, although he was Southern by birth.
But on election day she plumped for all ol
them without hesitation.
For some years there has been speculation
about how much longer the South, with so
many able sons of her own, would continue
to efface herself in the matter of the Democ
racy’s highest honor. Will she again repeat
her familiar performance? Or will she press
for recognition at San Francisco with a cou
of her own? Is it not about time?.