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Individual Enterprise.
THAT is a peculiarly seasonable truth
which Mr. Lloyd George emphasized
when he said, touching the grave
economic problems of England’s war after
math: “Individual enterprise must remain
the supreme active power in the production
of wealth and well being.’’
This is a traditional and dominant idea
of what we call Anglo-Saxon institutions.
For a long age it has been one of the prime
principles of our American democracy. To
leave the individual as large a measure of
free initi-tive and reward as is consistent
with common security and common rights
was the aim of this republic’s builders and
has been the most fertile force in its ma
terial development.
But in these latter years a contrary cur
i-ent has set in. Special perplexities and
wrongs having risen, there has been in
divers quarters an impatient demand to
grappl® them, not with the old energies and
old integrities of our political life, but by
expedients which tend' to make less and
less of individual rights, and consequently
of individual responsibility and originative
ness. We do not mean the emergency de
vices resorted to in the stress of war; those,
in the main, were imperatively needed, and
the extraordinary reins of power which went
with them were cheerfully granted by a pa
triotic people. The objectionable thing is
that in times free from war pressure so much
dependence should be placed upon govern
~~ men tai contfTvances —regulations and rules
imposed from without —rather than upon
that “organized self-control” which is the
essence of democracy and of social prog
ress. As in most proverbs, there is but half
a truth in the Jeffersonian saying that they
are the best governed people ..’ho are ths
least governed. But it is the very half unto
which we shall do well to take heed in days
when the temptation is all too strong to
shift individual responsibilities and to un
dervalue individual freedom as a power for
progress.
There is scarcely a sphere of present-day
life in which this idea cannot be profitably
reasserted. Mr. Lloyd George affirmed it
and enforced it at a crucial moment in Eng
land’s economic history, with the result that
difficulties which otherwise might easily
have waxed overwhelming are being steadily
mastered. It was at the height of a class de
mand for the socialization of certain great in
dustries—a demand which, had it been yielded
to, would eventually have taken in all indus
tries and, perhaps, all business—that the
clear-headed Prime Minister declared: “In
dividual enterprise must remain the supreme
active power in the production of wealth and
well being.” Standing steadfast to that
principle the English Government and the
English people are shouldering burdens of
taxation which, upon a less productive basis
of economic effort, vould be insupportable.
Mt ell has it been-said that “the willingness
of these few score millions to tax them
selves in billions, and their ability to pay
their taxes without default on their debts,
or the adoption of follies and heresies in
search of escape from them, is proof that the
German idea is defeated, as well as Germany,
alike for England and for all countries with
her character.”
Not by making the state either a despotic
or paternalistic power to which all else is
subordinated, but by leaving the originative
and highly human elements of life as free
as common sense allows, will the best exer
tions of men be encouraged and their best
impulses be practiced and strengthened.
This is anything but an enticing short cut to
the solutions for which we grow so impa
tient on this befuddling planet; but it is an
honest, dependable highway to real pros
perity and real progress.
The History oj Bill Yopp,
A WONDERFULLY heart-moving as well
as informing record is set down in
-r a recentl Y published little booklet,
Bill Yopp, ‘Ten-Cent’ Bill,” which is being
sold, at a nominal price, under the auspices
of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Atlanta,
the proceeds being shared by that Institution
and the hero of the “strange, eventful his
tory.’’ Thanks to the discerning eye and
graphic pen of Mr. R. de T. Lawrence, presi
dent of the Home’s Board of Trustees, there
are preserved in this narrative an'environment
and a personality that will become more and
more deeply prized as our living tokens of
the Old South fall away. Bill Yopp was born
in a cabin on a Laurens county plantation
when the oldest grandsires of today were
mere striplings. When seven years old he
became the attendant and virtual companion
of his young master. Through a happy boy
hood the two fished and hunted together, and
in all the perils of the War Between the
States their relationship continued unbroken.
The plantation darkey accompanied the young
Confederate soldier on the grim marches and
-*4 fields of the Virginia battle ground,
to eke out their oft-times meager ra
the whole regiment’s laughter
and good-will, ministering to his master when
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the latter was severely wounded, and at the
close of the war returning to the Yopp estate,
as faithful as at the beginning.
But Bill’s adventures were in no wise ended.
In 1870, times being particularly hard on the
farm, he secured a place as bellboy at the
Brown House in Macon, then a hostelry in
high favor for political hob-nobbing. There
he made the acquaintance of the State’s lead
ing public monos the day, nearly all of whom
became his friends. Through a sudden turn
of fortune he was taken to New York City,
and then to California. Returning to the
East he got into the graces of certain lovers
of the Old South who sent him on an extended
trip to Europe. Some years later he pro
cured a place on a navy collier and sailed
around the world. Next he found the way
to a veritable elysium as porter on the pri
vate car of the president of the Delaware and
Hudson railway. At last, gray with years,
Bill came back to the old plantation, to find
Captain Yopp ready to depart for the Con
federate Soldiers’ Home.
Thencefoward this fidus Achates was a
frequent visitor at the Home, and many were
the presents he brought not only to his “mas
ter” but to the other veterans. The Captain
has crossed over the river, but Bill still visits
his old Confederate comrades and is a thou
sand times welcome. In the sketch pepared
by President Lawrence, of the Home’s trus
tees, the events and relationships we have
touched upon are developed with singular
charm and truth of stroke. As a picture of
the old-time South and of an old-time darkey
who has had adventures the like of which
Ulysses himself never knew, the story will
be valued the country over, both for its edu
cational worth and its rare human interest.
Georgia Productiveness
SOME idea of Georgia’s present produc
tive power may be gathered from
the fact that the value of her princi
pal harvests last year amounted to six hun
dred and thirteen million dollars, a great
portion of which was derived from food
stuffs. Seventy million bushels of corn
worth one hundred and eleven million, eight
hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars,
thirteen million bushels of sweet potatoes at
more than a dollar a bushel, upwards of one
and a half million bushels of Irish potatoes
at more than two dollars a bushel, five mil
lion bushels of peanuts at two dollars and
forty-six cents a bushel, and five hundred
thousand gallons of sorghum at something
over a dollar a gallon, serve to illustrate the
diversity and abundance of the State’s food
growing resources. To these representative
crops add five million head of live stock
worth in the neighborhood of a quarter of a
billion dollars, and it is plain that in this
Commonwealth we have one of the earth’s
richest horns of plenty.
But while Georgia now ranks fourth among
the States in agricultural production, her de
velopment is still in its preparatory stages.
Improved methods of farming have come but
recently into anything like general practice.
It is hardly above a decade since diversi
fication appealed to more than a small mi
nority of planters and the counsels of agri
cultural science found extensive favor. It is
hardly more than five years since the flow
of Georgia millions to far off markets for
the purchase of foodstuffs began to ebb and
the independence made possible by the break
ing of cotton’s tyranny set in.
Well may we look forward with high hearts
to the time when these newly inaugurated
forces of development and progress come
fully into effect. It will be a day of pro
ductiveness beside which present bounties
will look lean. The natural treasure is here
in marvelous plenty; it remains only for en
ergy and skill to bring it duly forth.
Census Surprises
IF the census figures announced so far
may be taken as indicating the gen
eral drift, the country’s population
has been growing either at a different rate
or in a different direction from that com
monly taken for granted. Consider the four
hundred twenty-eight cities whose canvasses
have been completed. In these the popula
tion increase for the 1900-1910 period was
twenty-eight and four-tenths per cent. But
for the decade covered in the present report,
it appears as only twenty-one and nine
tenths per cent. On this basis the nation’s
total will be around one hundred and six
million instead of one hundred and ten mil
lion, as popularly expected.
According to the census of 1910 the con
tinental United States numbered ninety-one
million, nine hundred and seventy-two thou
sand, two hundred and sixty-six inhabitants.
The official estimate for 1918 was one hun
dred and five million, two hundred and fifty
three thousand, three hundred. It was on the
assumption that this rate of increase had
obtained and* would continue that the predic
tion of a minimum of one hundred and ten
million for 1920 was ventured.
How is the apparent falling off to be ex
plained? Partly, perhaps, by a decline in
immigration during the decade, particularly
in the war years; between three and four
million individuals thus can be accounted
for. It may turn out, however, that the
aggregate gain is much larger than returns
from these four hundred and twenty-eight
cities indicate. “War conditions and espe
cially war industries,” the Sun and New
York Herald points out, “made unprece
dented shifts in the population.”
It is thus possible that the expected num
bers are here, but differently distributed.
The most pleasing surprise, though one
hardly to be hoped for, would show the urban
shortage balanced by a rural gain.
EDITORIAL ECHOES
According to a special dispatch from Wash
ington, the government’s campaign to reduce
the cost of living is about to end. The gov
ernment’s fight on high prices has been much
like the historic episode of marching an army
up the hill and marching it down again. The
inarch of the army made no impression upon
the enemy, and the government’s march
against high prices certainly has made no im
pression on the cost of living. While this
government campaign has been on. prices of
food and all other necessary commodities have
continued to mount to new high levels. We
have had, from time to time, reports tending
to show lower wholesale prices, but the prices
t consumers have advanced with unabated
enthusiacm. The campaign is to be brought
to an end, it is said, because of a lack of funds
and to avoid a charge of extravagance. It
might well be brought to an end as an experi
ment that has failed. It undoubtedly has
cost a lot of money.
The fact is that the government undertook
to do something it was not capable of per
forming. The government had got into the
habit of wielding war powers and it had an
idea that possibly the mere threat of govern
ment control would send the cost of living
downward. Os course, explanations for the
failure of the campaign are forthcoming. The
Democrats blame it on the Republicans who
refuse to carry out President Wilson’s legisla
tive program. The Republicans term it an
impractical Democratic effort. But, what
ever be the merits in these explanations, it
has been demonstrated that in a time of peace,
under existing laws, there is no government
method to control arbitrarily the cost of liv
ing. Government edicts and departmental
threats cannot of themselves change the eco
nomic conditions responsible for prices. What
is required is a world engaged in production,
and until the world becomes so engaged, there
will be no real check on high prices. St.
Louis Star (Ind.)
STUDY THE TRUANT
By H. Addington Bruce
TRUANCY is not the simple, easily
solved problem that most people seem
to think it. It is by no means always
—if it is ever —a sign of “innate depravity”
on the part of the boy or girl who per
sists in evading attendance at school.
Sometimes it is a symptom of mental de
fect, perhaps extensive or perhaps only slight,
and readily compensated if correct training
methods are adopted early.
In such a case it is not depravity, but self
preservation, that underlies the truancy. Be
cause the mind is too weak to cope with the
tasks of the schoolroom, the child stays away
from the school in order to husband his fee
ble resources.
Or it may be timidity that prompts to tru
ancy.
If an abnormally sensitive child —that is, a
neurotic child —becomes for any reason un
popular with teacher or playmates, if that
child is ridiculed and “picked on,” truancy
may be adopted as the easier way out of a
distressing situation.
Then, too, truancy may simply be indica
tive of the unfitness of the school for the
particular needs of the child who plays tru
ant.
Many children, for example, are of a me
chanical rather than intellectual trend. They
learn through their fingers more easily than
through their eyes, and manual study is ac
cordingly more congenial to them than book
study.
If such children are obliged to study books
exclusively or predominantly, school may
soon become so hateful to them that they
will risk any penalty for non-attendance. It
is not “depravity” that impels them to do
this. They are acting in self-defense as truly
as the weak-minded truants or the abnormal
ly sensitive-
Truancy, again, may be nothing more than
a manifestation of the craving for excitement
and adventure possessed by every healthy
child. If the school work is made oppres
sively dull—as it too often is—the ultra-ad
venturous may rebel by resort to truancy. But
they should not on this account be deemed
“depraved.”
Finally, truancy is occasionally an out
growth—as serious delinquency is now
known to be at times—of profound moral
and emotional conflicts in the depths of the
truant’s mind.
Suppose a child has acquired a bad habit
—one that creates mixed sentiments of fear
and shame. And until he or she is in a tur
moil of apprehension.
Then a condition of hysterical—well-nigh
irrational—restlessness may result. Concen
tration, clear thinking, being impossible,
school becomes a place of torture and flight
from school the natural thing.
Every truant boy or girl, to put the case
concisely, presents an individual problem to
be solved only by patient, intensive study.
And to deal with truancy by the hit-or
miss method of compulsory attendance may
mean nothing less than to insure for the
truant the misery of a needlessly ineffective
life.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
WHY TORNADOES?
By Dr. Frank Crane
Why a tornado?
The west some days ago was visited by
one of those terrific wind-storms that come
in the spring to this region.
In the vicinity of Chicago over a hundred
lives were lost, many people were mutilated
and millions of dollars’ worth of property
destroyed.
Why?
Useless as it may appear, the mind of
man persists in probing for some rational
purpose in the universe.
When the young mother is snatched bv
death from her husband and children and
the vicious harridan lives on; when the Ti
tanic is engulfed with its load of meaning
ful lives; when the faithful, hard-working
man is smitten with cancer, and the wastrel
continues m blooming health; when the cat
■ stops the song of the happy thrush, and the
treacherous Lothario breaks the life of the
innocent girl; when pests raven, and volcanoes
burn, and earthquakes shatter, and nations
war—why is it all?
This is the oldest question of the race, the
question first thrown to heaven by Eve when
she sat, with eyes of horror, there with the
head of murdered Abel in her lap.
And it is answered, so far as an answer is
possible, in the oldest book in the world
the Book of Job.
There you find the eternal situation and
dramatis personae. Strange and fearful af
fliction came to an upright man.
His wife, with her “Curse God and die!”
represented the impatient reaction of the
childish mind, the petulant conclusion of
pessimism, that God is indifferent.
The Three Friends, “Job’s Comforters,”
were the fathers of all them that think in
uniform. Theirs was the cheap and easy ex
planation: “This woe has come upon you
because you sinned.”
In spite of its utter absurdity, in spite of
the fact that the righteous, kind and lov
ing suffer vastly more than the selfish and
vicious, the majority of mankind still follow
the view of the three smug Comforters.
It was Job himself that had the vision.
He glimpsed the solution.
It was, that the moral thing in the universe
is Man. Events are not just. Nature is piti
less, “red in tooth and claw.” The world’s
Neros live in golden houses; the world’s
Christs are “men of sorrows and acquainted
with grief.”
And Man has faith, he believes in the
eventual justice, he insists that the Creator
is good, not because this is proved by events,
but because it is contradicted by events.
Morality in man is his eternal protest.
His faith is the eternal triumph of his
moral nature.
His highest spiritual peak is not the ban
quet table, it is Calvary.
He is moral, not when he says, “I believe,
because all is well, and I am prosperous.”
He is moral only when he cries, “Though
He slay me, yet will I trust Him!”
Not in the sun nor the sea, not in the laws
of Nature, nor the train of events, but in the
soul of man, and there alone, is the undying
fire.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
The motor car driven by a determined-look
ing woman had knockea a man down, without,
however, injuring him much.
She did not try to get away. Not she!
Instead, she stopped the car, descended to the
solid earth and faced him manfully, or rather
womanfully.
“I’m sorry it happened,” she said, grudgingly,
“but it was all your fault. You must have been
walking carelessly. I ;.m an experienced driver.
I’ve been driving a car for seven years.”
“Well,” replied her victim airily. “I’m not
a novice myteU. I’ve been walking for fifty
seven years' ”
Over a glass of grape juice the comedian
was telling of his hard lot to a friend.
“It’s not a bit of good,” he finished. “I
shall leave the stage.”
His friend, in his inmost thoughts, agreed
with him but for the sake of politeness ex
postulated.
“Oh, don’t do that!” he cried. “If you
leave the stage you will be missed.”
“It’s about time, too!” snapped the actor
angrily. “I’m pretty sick of being hit!”
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
According to a statement, from
Washington, it is said that the Amer
ican navy as a healthy, aggressive
fighting machine has been sadly crip
pled since the signin of the armis
tice, and, accordin to testimony of
the most competent authorities, it is
bordering on a state of degenera
tion that is causing the gravest
alarm in all ranks.
And the secret of this condition
is found in the fact that the fleet
is so short of men, both officers and
crews, that if it were confronted
with any sudden emergency, the de
partment itself doubts if it could be
met without peril. Neither the At
lantic nor the Pacific fleet could be
made ready for battle for weeks.
Back of this shortage of men is
the fact that the government is not
giving the men of the navy—or the
army either, for that matter—a liv
ing wage. Resignaions at an alarm
ing rate are being received from
the commissioned personnel, and
hundreds of those of the enlisted per
sonnel are deserting, while the re
enlistment of those whose preiods of
service are expiring is almost im
possible of accomplishment.
It is declared that desertions alone
amount to something like 10,000 a
year.
Meanltime many of the finest ships
of the navy are unable to go into
commission or to stay in active serv
ice because of inadequate crews.
Some of these great vessels are tied
up for indefinite periods, and the de
partment is wondering where the men
are to come from to man the ships
soon to be delivered by the builders.
Thousands of New York families,
some of the 73,114 registered as
“homeless” by the tenement house
department, are expected to live in
tents furnished by the United States
army until the present housing
dearth is remedied, according to
men interested in the building trade
in New York state.
The new national phonetic system,
by which the Chinese language has
been reduced from “up in the thou
sands” to thirty-nine foundamental
symbols or sounds is proving an ef
fective weapon in the hands of mis
sionaries and teachers in reducing
illiteracy. “It is easy now for the il
literate Chinese to learn to read his
own language,” writes a missionary
in Susung, Anhwei. In four days a
group of seven native Christian lead
ers at Taihu station learned the sys-
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Mexico may be considered at an end,
inasmuch as there are no more
wholesale tortures or public atroci
ties, but in the capital of the state
of Jalisco the small children, the or
phans and the aged are being made
to pay the price in the State Asylum
of Orphans and the aged.
More than 400 children under the
age of sixteen are forbidden to learn
even the simplest form of religion,
and the instructors are forced to cut
the principles of Christianity from
the class work and textbooks, accord
ing to information received here.
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Brooklyn. N. Y., from eating canned
spinach, Frank Heck and his wife had
a meal in a restaurant near their
home. The following day Mrs. Heck
was taken violently ill and died later.
Her husband survived her only a few
hours.
“How little is known about Co
rea,” Rev. J. A. Duncan is quoted as
saying. Mr. Duncan, has been a
missionary in that country for ten
years. He remarked that Corea was
still a progressive nation. I saw re
cently some reference to the fact
that Corea used iron-clads against
the Japanese as early as 1597, and
that he Coreans were the first to use
cast metal type. Nothing has beer,
said about it, and perhaps it is not
generally known, that the Coreans
discovered gunpowder in 200 B. C.,
fourteen centuries before the Ger
man monk, who is ordinarily cred
ited with the discovery, gave out his
formula. The astronomers of Silla,
one of the ancient provinces of Co
rea, thought out the operations of
the planetary system and its work
ings to such an extent that they were
able to predict eclipses with cer
tainty centuries before present day
scientists gave credit for these dis
coveries, and it was this same peo
ple that gave the world the mag
netic needle and the mariner’s com
pass.
Forest C. Pendleton, department
of justice agent in New Orleans, at
the head of a squad of department
operators, raided a hall in which a
meeting of 200 members of the local
Yardmen’s association was being
held. Six of the leaders were ar
rested on federal warants charging
them with interfering with the Unit
ed States mails.
According to information received
from El Paso, Tex., the Mexican gov
ernment has formally protested and
requested an explanation from the
United States for the invasion of
Mexican territory by American war
ships, it was announced recently at
the Mexican consulate. The Mexican
authorities ,it was said, charge that
the submarine H-l and four other
submarines entered Magdalena bay,
in Lower California, without permis
sion, and that after anchoring sail
ors went ashore and pitched tents.
Monuments to mark the various
headquarters of the Union army in
the battle of Gettysburg are to be
erected within the next few weeks
under the direction of the national
park commission. The design is the
creation of Colonel E. B. Cope, en
gineer of the commission. A granite
base will be surmounted in each in
stance by a cannon.
Postal employes are’ planning a
final drive on congress for a raise in
wage standards and “general improve
ment in postal employment policies.”
Representatives of the unions of
postal workers now say that despite
the difficulties experienced by the
point commission on postal salaries
they expect some action by congress
before June. The advisory commit
tee of employes and officials in the
postal service, which has been aiding
in drafting the salary classification
measure, has completed its work
and the report will be turned over to
the congressional commission early
this week. >-
Japan announces that she will not
withdraw from Siberia until dangers
threatening her subjects in Korea
and Manchuria are removed.
A resolution declaring the state of
war with Germany at an end tyas
passed the house and is now before
the senate.
A dispatch from Washington states
that to stimulate a market for nat
ural loose • leaf tobacco has passed
and sent to the senate an amendment
to the 1918 revenue law, which places
a tax of 7 cents a pound on the to
bacco sold by retail dealers and pro
vides that the loose leaf product,
except when sold by growers, shall
be packed in three, six, nine, twelve,
fifteen and eighteen-pound lots. The
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special benefit to tobacco planters in
nortnem Tennessee and southern: ■
Kentucky. >
With an enrollment of 5,700, the
new Goodyear Industrial university,
the first of its kind, was dedicated
at Akron, 0., recently.
advent into the educational world'
with a faculty of 117, the school’s,
sixty-five classrooms being housed
into a new $2,500,000 recreational hall
of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company.
The classes, which are free, offer
33,000 employes courses ranging
from Americanization work to post
graduate studies for college men and
wemen.
The International General Electric
company, whose headquarters are
situated at Schenectady, N. Y., an
nounced recently it had been award
ed a $2,000,000 contract for the first
electrification of a steam railroad in
SouthAAmericaa —a twenty-eight mile
stretch of the Paulista railway be
tween Jundiahy and Campinas Brazil-
Including double track and siding,
the total mileage to be electrified is
seventy-six. Electric operation is
expected to begin in July, 1924.
News received at Washington,
states that John Reed, an American
magazine writer, who was reported
recently to have been executed in
Finland, is in jail at Abo, Finland, on
a charge of smuggling, according to
advices from the American charge
d’affaires at Helsingfors, made pub
lic by the state department.
Senator FrellngiAiysen of New
Jersey, voicing his opposition in the
senate at Washington to further re
duction in the size of the army said
one division of approximately 27,500
men should be stationed near Wash
ington to protect the capital against
any possible emergency. He recalled
that an army of 2.000 captured
Petrograd and insisted that there
should be no z reduction in the size
of the American army “when we
know the forces that are working at
this time in the country.”
Opposition to a cut in the army be- .
low 280,000 enlisted men and 18,000
officers also was expressed by Sen
ator Wadsworth, of New York whose
motion to strike out the provision of
the army reorganization bill for a
reduction annually for five years of
• 2 per cent of the commissioned and
5 per cent of the enlisted personnel,
was adopted, 35 to 12.
A motion by Senator Reed of Mis- «
sour! to reconsider because of the
expense of maintaining such a large
army was defeated.