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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months f $1.50 Eight months SI.OO < Six months c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 WS.I Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 10c 70c 2.00 4.00 <.->0 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distingui»hed con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles ’’ Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time vour subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeKs before the date on this Label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or 1 Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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 0 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 T 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- I 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- rrr 1 ' 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 H 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?.