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The Business Trend
IN every effort to discern the trend of
the country’s economic conditions it
should be borne in mind that they are
in a state of transition—for the better, it
may be, or for worse, but certainly chang
ing. The fact is, as Vice President Sisson, of
the Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
recently observed in a public address, busi
ness is never at a standstill. “It is either
rising or falling,” he said, and byway of
evidence recalled the notable fluctuations of
American business since 1873. In that year
there was a distressful financial panic, fol
lowed by a business ebb on to 1879. For
the next two or three years business im
proved, but in 1883 and 1884 it went down
ward again, and in 1885 it was pronouncedly
low. Then, from 1886 to 1890, it ascended
and reached a high level. But from 1890 to
1896 it suffered an appreciable decline, only
to recover and wax prosperous from 1897 to
1-902. During the next few years there were
only slight changes, 1906 marking a gener
ally vigorous condition. But in 1907 and
1908 reverses were felt, after which came a
slightly upward curve. Down again went the
scales in 1910 and 1911, and the ensuing
two years were “low.’’ Then came the war,
shock, soon succeeded by exceptionally stim
ulating conditions. From 1914 to 1920 Amer
ican business has moved upward with giant
strides. But what of the present and the fu
ture?
Is this transitional stage to eventuate in
times more satisfactory, or less so? Today
we are keenly aware of high living costs,
scarcity of necessaries, high production
costs, restricted credits and heavy taxes. The
first two of these conditions, prices and
supplies, are obviously connected, and both
are affected, of course, by the rate and the
cfest of production. This does not mean that
eVSry instance of burdensome prices is thus
to be accounted for; it does not exclude the
idea of profiteering and certainly not the
fact of extravagance. But it does admonish
us to study each problem of this nature in
the light of reason and realities rather than
impatience and misinformation, as we are all
too prone to do. It .s proper, too, to observe
that the so-called "excess profits tax,” ill
contrived as it is now generally acknowledged
to be, bears heavily upon the rank and file
and adds considerably to the cost of living.
Some authorities argue, indeed, that the in
come tax system itself must be revised if
impairment of industrial vigor and fruitful
ness are to be avoided.
As to production, a most potent factor in
business tendencies as well as in prices, it is
plain that whatever restricts or retards its
normal processes is bad for the country’s
common interests. Some retardments are be
yond human control, as when untoward
weather conditions prevent the planting or
maturing of wheat, cotton and other basic
crops. Others, one would think, assuredly
could be averted by the exercise of common
sense and fair-play.. The recent railroad strike
is estimated to have cost the roads alone
three million dollars a day, most of which
the public will have to make up, besides
enormous losses, direct and indirect, to busi
ness at large. One authority has reckoned
that the strikes of 1919, many if not most
of which were unauthorized by responsiole
leadership, imposed an aggregate loss of sev
en hundred and twenty-five million dollars
upon labor, in the item of wages, and one
and a quarter billion dollars upon industry.
The loss to the general public was incalcu
lable. Whatever their cause or nature, re
straints and interferences in production are
peculiarly unfortunate at a time when the
world’s stock of needments has been de
pleted by the most wearing and wasteful
war of history. Energy, skill, thrift, stability
and the spirit of co-operation were never
more valuable, either to the individual or to
the world than in the stressful present.
All these conditions must be taken into ac-‘
count if we would get a fair idea of the
business trend and prospect. By bringing to
bear upon each of them as best we may the
counsels of common sense, •neighborliness
and patriotism, we shall be doing much to
unravel the perplexities of the day and to z
secure a prosperous future. Whatever the
temporary turn of the scales and swing of
the pendulum may be, we have the assur
ance of a land singularly blest in all the fun
damentals of good fortune. We have, more
over, the safeguards of the soundest bank
ing and currency system the nation has ever
possessed—a system that virtually precludes
the possibility of financial panics. Thus for
tified, the people of America need have no
misgivings for the business future if they
will but make the most of their bountiful op
portunities and stand true to their obliga
tions.
For a Prosperous Autumn
SPEAKING from abundance of informa
tion and friendly solicitude, the Geor
gia State Bureau of Markets advises
the planting of foodstuffs as the safest agri
cultural investment now to be made. While
present prices on cotton are tempting, it says,
“the hazards against that crop are greatly
increased.” Wherefore,
“Every farmer should weigh well the
possibilities. We believe every food crop
will bring fair prices. Plant corn, pea
nuts, velvet beans, field peas, sugar cane
and sorghum. Raise hogs and cattle.
So divide your crops that a misfortune
to any one product will not seriously
affect you? entire year’s work. It is
not too late to plant any of these crops.
Diversify, remove the incubus of a one-
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crop plan. It will result in more con
tentment to your soul and more money
to your bank account.”
The wisdom and foresight of this counsel,
if consistently applied, will mean a secure
and prosperous autumn. Untoward weather
has delayed spring work to such an extent
that cotton is likely to be unusually late in
maturing. This means extraordinary risks,
against the boll weevil in southern counties
and against blighting frosts in the north.
That there will be a profitable market for all
the cotton produced is not to be gainsaid.
But with the chances of production so uncer
tain, it would be exceedingly ill advised to
stake the farm's hopes upon this crop to the
exclusion or curtailment of foodstuffs.
The pronounced shortage in winter wheat
is but one among many indications that the
future market for grain; and other food sta
ples will be highly advantageous to the
grower. Out of the rich diversity which Geor
i gia soil and climate afford for such crops the
planter can make sure of ample success and
rewards in several fields, even though he fail
in others. Herein lies the special aptness of
the Market Bureau’s advice to present con
ditions. In any circumstances good judg
ment as well as agricultural science calls for
crop diversification. But in the peculiar dis
. ficulties and uncertainties now upon us any
I other policy w r ould be altogether rash.
The Good Roads Bond Issue.
THE county commissioners of Georgia
through their association are render
ing the state a fine constructive serv
ice by informing the people of the details
of the bill now pending in the Legislature
to amend the Constitution so as to provide
for a great bond issue .to build highways.
Georgia’s highway program consisted of
.two parts. The first part consisted of the
bill increasing the scale of motor vehicle
licenses and setting aside the proceeds for
highway construction, and the/ bill creating
a Highway Commission. This part was passed
by the Legislature in 1919. The High
way Commission has been hard at
work for several months. Composed of
good men combining technical, business and
legal experience, it has mapped, out a sys
tem of trunk highways linking together the
counties of the state. It is ready to proceed
on a great scale when thq second part of the
highway program goes through. The sec
ond part consists of the bill .amending the
Constitution so as to provide for an issue of
highway bonds to be retired with the pro
ceeds of the motor vehicle licenses.
This second part of the legislative program
was introduced at the session of 1919 and
progressed substantially toward passage.
There being no haste about it, however, in
view of the fact that Constitutional amend
ments are not to be submitted to the people
until the general election of 1920, the Leg
islature allowed it io go over as unfinished
business, which allowed the people twelve
months to study and discuss its provisions.
The highway commissioners through their
association have had Mr. Frank Reynolds, it
man well posted on all details of the high
way program, making speeches for several
months, explaining to the people exactly
what it means and the reasons why they
should support the Legislature in passing
the bill and should vote for its ratification
when the referendum is taken.
The increased scale of motor vehicle
licenses will produce in 1920 a revenue of
nearly $2,000,000. As the number of motor
vehicles increases from year to year, the rev
enue will increase. Motor vehicle owners are
willing to pay the increased license when
they know the money is going directly into
highway construction.
Which would be the better business pol
icy—to spend $2,000,000 a year on highway
construction, thus progressing slowly to
wards the ultimate goal of a state-wide sys
tem of trunk roads connecting all county
seats; or to issue $40,000,000 to $50,000,000
of bonds, build the trunk line system in two
or three years, and use the motor vehicle
license money to pay the interest and sink
ing fund?
That is the sole question raised by the
pending Constitutional amendment. That the
people of the state will at once perceive the
advantages of the latter plan is reasonably
certain if they understand the facts. A big
bond issue will enable the State to construct
its highway system at once without delay,
and the present generation will get the ben
efits of it, while future income from motor
vehicle licenses will pay the interest and
sinking fund without a dollar of ad valorem
taxation. Motor vehicle owners generally
speaking are bound to favor the bond issue
plan of immediate construction, as against
the other plan of year-by-year construction,
inasmuch as they will enjoy the pleasure and
profit of riding on the roads which they are
paying for.
Georgia is in fact as well as in name a
most wonderful empire. Her mountain re
sources of forest, mine and water power;
her almost unlimited agricultural possibili
ties; her splendid sea front furnished with
harbors inviting the development of a great
ocean trade; her diversity of soil and climate;
her unmixed strain of Anglo-Saxon citizen
ship—what more could a State or a Nation
have to make it great?
When a highway system is added to these,
then will commence an era of development
the like of which no other State in the
Union has -ever experienced. Already fourth
in agricultural output, Georgia’s produc
tion has only commenced. The time is not
distant when the value of the products of
her farms and orchards will far surpass in
value and variety the richest State on the
North American continent.
No other investment will pay such divi
dends as $50,000,000 invested in highways.
Increased land values alone will pay the
entire cost of the highway system in five
years. The Legislature ought to pass and
the people ought to ratify the Constitutional
amendment. It is & business proposition
which should riot be rejected.
The Scarcity of Farm Labor.
Farmers Complain that short hours and
high wages have attracted thousands of. la
borers from the farm to the city. The
worker, with-more or less justice, replies that
the farmer demands sixteen, hours for a day’s
labor, provides unattractive and disagreeable
sleeping quarters, and offers no form of
recreation beyond an occasional cock fight
in the barn yard. The fact that there is an
element of truth in the contention of each
makes it apparent that both should seek a
basis of mutual agreement, for in no other
way can the problem be solved satisfactorily.
“Short hours, high pay and easy work in
the cities have not only kept outside labor
away from the farms, but it is taking the
farmer’s children and even the farmers
themselves to the cities and leaving the farms
sadly undermanned,” writes an Illinois far
mer, who adds that “the result will be that
in a short time city labor will have its pockets
full of money and nothing in its stomach.”
There is a good deal of truth in what this
Illinois farmer has to say, and there is in his
statement a fact that is designed to bring the
farmer and the laborer together. The man
with an appetite, and nothing in his stomach,
is very likely to seek to go where he can
get plenty to eat in exchange for what he has
in his pockets.
MAN AND MACHINERY
By H. Addington Bruce
ONE hundred per cent employment, ‘di
minished production, decreased effi
ciency, increasing discontent. Thus
a business man the other day summarized
the labor situation.
He was inclined quite evidently to attrib
ute what he described as a truly alarming
state of affairs to “socialistic agitation.” He
spoke of growing “class antagonism” and de
plored “the unreasonable hostility of labor to
capital.”
But there is one factor of which he made
no mention, yet which is .perhaps chiefly re
sponsible for the widespread unrest among
the workers. It is a distinctly psychological
factor and.is found in the restrictive influ
ence exercised by our machine industrialism
on a fundamental human instinct.
Every normal man, no matter what his
social status, has an inborn urge to creative
self-expression. He cannot be happy, he can
not even feel at ease, unless in some way this
urge is gratified.
And formerly every man had in his work
a means for gratifying the creative impulse.
In the days before the invention of the steam
engine and the growth of the factory system
every worker* was, and felt himself to be, a
creator of whatever his industry produced.
If he were, let us suppose, a shoemaker,
he had scope for true creation through every
stage of the making of a shoe. Contrast the
shoamaking process of today, as described by
Andre Tridon, for example, in his “Psycho-
Analysis:”
“The men and women employed in mod
ern shoe factories, who simply release a lever
a hundred times a day, stopping or starting
some electrically-driven machine tool, per
form day after day monotonous tasks of a
fragmentary character.
“Not one of them sees more than a part
of a shoe. Those who assemble the parts
had no share in the producing of those
parts.”
This means a thwarting, a blocking, of’tlie
instinct for self-expression. A similar thwart
ing is found in every industry where the in
vention of machinery, has promoted special
ization of labor. \
But, as psychologists are well aware, trou
ble results when an instinct is denied all real
ization. Especially must this be true of so
fundamental, so insistent an instinct as the
creative urge.
And as machinery has more and more
multiplied the ranks of those blocked from
self-expression have grown. Which is one of
the great reasons social unrest has increased
with the passing of the years.
Os course, we cannot revert to the days
of handwork. Modern industrialism has
come to stay. But we can and we should
encourage and assist the workers in machine
industrialism to find ways of satisfying their
vital need for self-expression in the hours
when they are away from the machine.
Today most workers merely “kill time”
during their leisure. They engage in amuse
ments which have no creative value what
ever, hence which leave them as dissatisfied
as their monotonous, specialized w|jrk.
But some, the truly fortunate, take up
hobbies that permit them self-expression as
their work does not.
We see these lucky ones perhaps cultivat
ing little gardens, in the cool of the evening,
perhaps playing some musical instrument,
perhaps developing a 'gift for painting or
writing, perhaps taking part in constructive
social work.
In their hobbies they are happy and con
tented—as those without hobbies can never
be, no matter what their wages, if their daily
work itself is instinct-thwarting.
There is a hint here for employers and em
ployed alike. Its acceptance, I am persuad
ed, will go far to bring the industrial peace
which we manifestly and sorely need.
(•Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE HOSPITAL
By Dr. Frank Crane
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
The medical profession is simply the best
intelligence of the race applied to the sub
ject of health.
It is common sense addressed to physical
welfare.
It is fact versus hocus-pocus; truth ver
sus fiction; experience versus fancy; noon
day versus twilight.
At least that is what it ought to be, strives
to be. That is its ideal. It does not attain
it, of coprse; for an ideal attained is no
longer ap ideal.
We criticize regular doctors, and pooli
pooh their pretensions (until we get sick)
just as we cry out against legislators, gov
ernors, and all others who have public re
sponsibilities, because that is our favorite
American indoor sport. We don’t mean it.
The hospital is the physician’s workshop.
That is all it is. It is merely a place where
he can work to best advantage, as a mechanic
can work better in his shop with all his tools
about him, and a cook can produce better
meals in her kitchen than over a camp fire.
If it is worth while having a medical pro
fession at all it is worth while having a place
where they can do their best.
That means that a city’s hospitals are the
measure of the city’s intelligent regard for
its life.
The enemies of the hospital are selfish
ness, callous indifference, ignorance, and su
perstition.
The peanut-souled citizen who is well and
does not want to disturb his *peace by think
ing about sickness, will not assist the hos
pital.
The fakers, frauds, patent-medicine graft
ers, and other vultures that profit on the
miseries of their fellows, do not help hospi
tals.
The faddists, monomaniacs, religio-philo
sophic cranks, and all those who put their
peculiar superstitious obsession above their
reason, do not favor hospitals.
N|it every physician who has carefully pre
pared himself for his life work, who has
studied what the wisest have learned before
him, who has learned at the feet of the most
skilful, who has sworn loyalty to truth and
seeks honestly to practice his art in away
to be of the most benefit to men, every
physician in fine that wants to do his best,
wants a hospital, for that is the best of
places in which to do it.
And an intelligent and sane community
wants a hospital because it wants those who
are set apart to care for its health, to do
good work, the best possible work, under the
best possible conditions.
QUIPS AND* QUIDITIES
An optimistic Colorado farmer, on seeing
some clouds floating by, remarked:
“Well, I guess we are going to have some
rain.”
“Aw!” said his pessimistic neighbor, an
ex-railroad man,, “those are just empties
coming back from lowa.”
“That feller at the next table is a lucky
guy,” observed Uncle Timseed, indicating a
heavy, two-handed feeder who was filling
his face with mashed potatoes and peas,
using his knife for a trowel. “He come into
money from both sides o’ the family an’
got all kinds of it.”
“Yes,’ assented his city nephew, “he cer
tainly looks as though he had been born
with a gold knife in his mouth.’
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Dr. Frederick H. Millener, foremost
wireless telephone expert of the
country, is listening to catch signals
that the people on the planet Mars
may be hurtling across a space of
millions of miles to the people on the
earth. Mr. Millener is stationed at
a lonely farm house in Omaha, Neb.,
where none of the ordinary el’ectric
currents around a great city can in
terfere with hl’s work. Dr. Millener
is surrounded by the apparatus of the
most powerful wireless receiving
station in the world. His intensifiers
will magnify even the faintest com
motions among the waves of the air
until they break as a storm upon
the apparatus, which will make a
permanent record of them and per
mit their study at the leisure of the
scientists. The planet Mars is closer
to the earth just now than at any
other time of the year. Dr. Millener’s
instruments are tuned to a 300,000-
meter wave length. A 20,000-meter
length of wave is an extremely long
one for wireless use on the earth.
And it is by the extreme length of
wave that Dr. Millener expects to
decide whether any signal which he
may record is from the earth or
from out in interplanetary .space.
Wave lengths used on the earth are
a known quantity. Waves of other
lengths, according to Dr. Millener,
may come from another planet.
According to news received from
Washington an investigation into the
causes of friction between whites
and blacks in the United States and
of the “increasing discontent” among
the negroes would be authorized un
der a bill introduced today* by Sena
tor Spencer. Republican, of Missouri.
A commission of nine members,
three of whom would be negroes, and
an annual appropriation of $50,000
is proposed.
Information received from Ottawa,
Canada, states that a bill proposing
that dealers in German or Austrian
goods be required to advertise that
fact, passed its second reading in
the senate after considerable debate.
The penalty for violation is six
months’ imprisonment or SSOO fine,
or both. The main purpose of the
bill is to protect persons who ob
jected to purchasing German goods.
Among the latest news events got
ten direct from Washington it is said
that Secretary of the Navy Daniels
accepted from Major J. E. Wrench,
secretary of the English Speaking
union, a check for $30,000 to be used
for the erection of a monolith in New
York harbor to commemorate the part
American naval forces played in the
Dover patrol during the world war.
Those present at the presentation
ceremony were Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt, Ronald C. Lindsay, coun
sellor of the British embassy; Major
General Bethel, military attache, and
Admiral Niblack, chief of naval intel
ligence.
In handing the check to Mr. Dan
iels, Major Wrench said that it rep
resented “the good wishes of the
British people to the great American
navy.” Mr. Daniels, in accepting the
gift, dwelt upon the co-operation and
good fellowship of the American and
British navies during the war.
The monolith to be erected in New
York harbor will be an exact copy of
the obelisk already in course of erec
tion on the cliffs of Dover, in Eng
land, and near Ca.pe Blanc, in France.
At a meeting of the National
Academy of Science at the Cosmos
club. Washington, D. C., Dr. Charles
D. Walcott, president of the acad
emy, announced that the institution
will erect a building as its home and
headquarters here to cost $1,400,-
000.
Carnegie corporation of New York
made possible erection of the build
ing through offering to the National
Academy $5,000,000 to build the
structure and endow the national
For More Than Forty Years
Cotton Growers have known that
POTASH PAYS
More than 11,651,200 Tons of Potash Salts
had been imported and used in the 'United
States in the 20 years previous to January,
1915, when shipments ceased. Os this 6,460,-
700 Tons consisted of
KAINIT
which the cotton grower knew was both a plant
food and a preventive of blight and rust, —with
it came also 1,312,400 Tons of
20 per cent
MANURE SALT
which has the same effects on Cotton, but which was
used mainly in mixed fertilizers.
I
Shipments of both Kainit and Manure Salt have
been resumed but the shortage of coal and cars and
high freight rates make it more desirable to ship
Manure Salt, which CONTAINS 20 PER CENT OF
ACTUAL POTASH, instead of Kainit, which con
tains less than 13 per cent actual Potash.
MANURE SALT can be used as a side dressing
on Cotton in just the same way as Kainit and will
give the same results. Where you used 100 pounds
of Kainit, you need to use but 62 pounds of Manure
Salt, or 100 pounds of Manure Salt go as far as 161
pounds of Kainit.
MANURE SALT has been coming forward in
considerable amounts and cotton growers, who can
not secure Kainit, should make an effort to get
Manure Salt for side dressing to aid in making a big
Cotton Crop.
Muriate of Potash
50 per cent actual Potash, has been coming forward
also, —100 pounds of Muriate are equivalent to 400
pounds of Kainit or 250 pounds of Manure Salt.
These are the three
Standard GERMAN Potash Salts
that were always used in making cotton fertilizers
and have been used for all these years with great
profit and WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE TO THE
CROP.
The supply is not at present as large as in former
years, but there is enough to greatly increase the
Cotton Crop if you insist on your dealer making the
necessary effort to get it for you.
DO IT NOW
Soil and Crop Service Potash
Syndicate
H. A. Huston, Manager
42 Broadway New York
research council provided that the
academy should furnish a site and
submit satisfactory building plans.
Friends of the academy contributed
a fund for this purpose and a site
in Potomac park, opposite Lincoln
memorial, has been purchased.
The national research council was
organized in accordance with an
executive order of President Wilson
in May, 1918. and has brought to
gether all research organizations In
the country.
The anti-dumping idea has taken
strong hold on Canada. The Canadian
legislation which prevents merchan
dise being sold in her markets at less
prices than in the country of produc
tion is well known, and has perhaps
been applied most frequently to un
suspecting American firms that sent
goods across oqr northern border.
Byway of showing impartiality,
Canada has now notified England
that Canadian securities are not to
be dumped upon the Canadian mar
ket either, no matter how profitable
the state of exchange may make the
operation for British holders. At
about the same time. Canada added
freight cars to the articles she wants
to keep at home. The list already in
cludes wood plup of which we stand
in dire need at a time when our
quadrennial political campaigns are
coming on apace. Opportunity
enough, congress is considering send
ing an American mission to treat
with Canada for the purpose of lib
erating more material for newsprint
paper.
Tailors in Springfield,- Mass., who
have been asked to make alterations
in suits purchased by a large local
insurance company for its employes
in an effort to meet living costs,
have refused to touch the suits, it
was announced recently.
The 165 employes to be supplied
therefore will depend on home help
in fitting. The 165 suits are all
that could be obtained of a big con
signment sent to this country by the
British government to be distributed
through big corporations. The suits
were made for returned British sol
diers.
Charged with attempting to mo
nopolize the growing and sale of
Hawaiian pineaples. Swift & Co. and
Libby, McNeil & Libby. Chicago, and
Libby, McNeill & Libby, Honolulu,
were cited by the federal trade com
mission at Washington to answer
comlamts of unfair competition and
of acquiring competitors’ stock con
trary to provisions of .the Clayton
act. The averments assert that the
companies acquire control of five
competing pineapple concerns in
Hawaii.
.According to a statement from
Wasnington, coinage of half dollars,
commemorating the centennial anni
versary of the admission of Maine
and Alabama a s states and the 300th
anniversary of the landing of the
Filgrims, are authorized in bills
passed unanimously by the house re
cently and sent to the senate.
A half million coins would be pro
duced m observance of the landing of
V™ A?A ,s S ims at Plymouth Rock and
100,000 for each of the state cen
tennials.
Sugar will certainly soar high
above the present lofty prices, while
prices on all foods will almost sure
ly be increased. Such was the mes
sage of E. F. Bushnell, secretary of
Austin Nichols & Co., as the spokes
man of the food products division of
the American Manufacturers’ Ex
pert association, at the regular
monthly luncheon, New York city, in
the Hotel Pennsylvania. Decrease!
production in foods, said Mr. Bush
nell, is responsible for the increased
prices.
“We have the machinery in this
country to increase our production.”
he said, “if only labor and capital
would get together. So long as
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
Be Your Own Good Fairy
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
Do you remember how, in Peter
Pan, Maud Adams would come down
to the footlights and in that thrilling
voice of hers ask, "Do you believe
in fairies?” And the whole house
would shout back at her: “Yes!”
A belief in fairies is r very beauti
ful and lovely thing, and an agree
able and innocuous pa»Uwie if in
dulged in for an hour or so occasion
ally in the twilight, but it becomes
a very dangerous and mischievous
faith if one tries to make a working
proposition to it.
And this is what women do. Nine
ty-nine per cent of the women in the
world still believe in fairies, and they
are sitting around waiting fpr their
fairy godmother to come along and
pull off some more Cinderella stuff,
and change their pumpkins into lim
ousines, and their hand-me-downs
into Paris confections, and transport
them from their own gas ranges to
scenes of princely splendor.
And they expect all of this change
to come about through some touch
of magic wand, and* without calling
upon them for any labor or effor*:.
Now tl# days of magic are ' not
past. Many a woman who began lite
as a kitchen drudge passes on to
riches and splendor. There are still
fairies and fairy godmothers, and con
jure, but they work in a different
way in these times, and we call them
by different names. The other name
of the good fairy used to be luck.
Now we call her pluck.
Nowadays a woman does not have
to sit around wishing for a good
fairy. All she has to do is to get
up and be her own good fairy. Let’s
see about it.
The first thing that the forlorn
maiden used to ask her fairy god
mother for was beauty, and imme
diately the ugly duckling was turned
into a beautiful swan. Her carroty
hair became gtjjden, her pug nose
straight, her sallow complexion
bloomed with lilies and roses, and
her snaggled teeth were converted
into peatls. Some miracle!
‘ The modern woman can practical
ly work this same metamorphosis in
herself whenever she chooses.’ She
can give light and luster to hair by
brushing it. She can make over he?
complexion- and her figure by diet
and exercise, and a lovely set of
teeth are simply a secret between
her and her dentist.
Moreover, a woman’s looks are
largely a matter of clothes. Any
young girl, not a monstrosity, is a
dream in white chiffon, and what
shade, color and line will camouflage
in the way of defects is beyond all
human guessing.
The second gift that the distrait
maiden asked of her fairy godmoth
er was a husband. Probably a good
many girls think that a young wom
an still needs the aid of some good,
strong magic spell to enable her to
catch a man and lead him to the altar
there are strikes every five min
utes, production must decrease rath
er than increase. We have got to
get labor and capital together, ex
tend farm credits and improve the
entire food production situation.”
As a result of treatment or
James Moore Hickson, Church of
Englan “faith healer,” who was in
Lexington, Ky., two days last week
Herbert . Howard Welch, nine years
old, is entirely cured of eye trouble
which for five years threatened to
destroy his sight, his parents report
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in wishing for money nowadays. She
goes out and earns it, for she has
found out that if women put in half
the time, and the labor, and the en
ergy in working that they do in want
ing things they could buy them for
themselves.
The fourth gift that the maiden
asked of her fairy godmother was
happiness. The woman who is her
own good fairy bestows this upon
herself. She fills her life full of so
many interests that there is never a
dull moment in it. The days are too
short to do all the thifigs that she
has planned to do, and there is al
ways something exciting to look for
ward to in tomorrow.
She has found out that there is no
happiness save in unselfishness, and
so she does not try to drug herself
into a state of sensuous bliss with
riches, ease and softness. She finds
happiness in being of service to oth
ers, and doing a worthy work in the
world.
She loves and gives herself. She
broadens her mind and her heart.
She possesses her soul ,in calm and
peace, for she knows that if we find
happiness at all we must find it in
ourselves. No one can can give it to
us from the outside. No circum
stances of life can assure it.
And that is all there is to the fairy
business. It is pluck and not luck
that wins out in life. If we win
what we want we must be go-getters,
not stay-wanters. Nothing is so fu
tile as to sit with idle hands wish
ing for the good things of the world,
and believing that somehow, some
way they are going to be dropped
from the clouds into one’s lap. Noth
ing comes that way but envy,, jeal
ousy and bitter disappointment.
Yet that is the way many women
spend their lives wanting things they
might have if only they had the en
ergy to go after them. Eating their
hearts out in dreary waiting for some
miracle to come and change their lots
when they have the magic wand in
their own hands that would work the
miracle if they only had spunk
enough to wave it.
Believe me, sisters, the only per
fectly reliable fairy godmother that
any woman ever has is herself. So
don’t wait for your good fairy any
longer. Get on the job yourself.
Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wednes
day and Friday.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
, Syndicate, Inc.)