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Highway Records.
GEORGIANS may well be gratified at
their State’s portion in the fund of
fifty-five million dollars which has
' been set aside for Federal aid in road
’ construction in the South for the fiscal years
is 1919 and 1920. To this Commonwealth
! .comes $4,307,437, the largest single allot
ment, save those to Texas and Missouri. The
• > significance of the figures is chiefly in the
fact that the State itself provides a fund
equal to about sixty per cent of the Federal
apportionment, so that the total expenditure
■' in Georgia will be not far short of seven mil
lions. That the people are freely furnishing
their part of so large an outlay is cheering
evidence of the genuineness of their interest
in highway betterment.
It is noteworthy, moreover, as pointed out j
in the current number of Southern Good
-Roads, that Georgia and her neighbor States
are “not only putting up sixty per cent to
the Federal Government’s forty per cent for
joint highway construction, but are also ex
pending large sums for road work through
State, county and local committees; the total
of such sums is estimated to be at least one
hundred million dollars for this year.’’ There
could be no surer evidence of the South’s for
ward movement and no better omen for con
tinued progress. The money already spent
on road improvement and extension has
yielded royal returns in the enhancement of
land values, the increase of crop profits, the
enrichment of rural life, the stimulation of
trade, the upbuilding of the general welfare.
But present returns, which are attributable
to the expenditures of years gone by, will ap
pear small when compared with .the harvests
from the far more liberal outlays of today.
Southern highway improvements now actual
ly in process represent little less than twenty
three and a half million dollars. Add the
millions upon millions which are to follow
from State and Federal funds in the months
and years immediately ahead, and it is> plain
that as we are sowing abundantly so shall
we abundantly reap. It should be noted,
moreover, that highway money is spent much
more efficiently than in times past. Every
State has its good roads department, guided
as a rule by business judgment and engineer
ing science. Most of them have carefully
thought-out, far-reaching plans of proce
dure, so that the work in each county and
district is related to that of the State as a
whole, and the work of each season made
preparatory to a larger future. Thus true
economy and true progress are obtained in
richer measure than ever before, and the
whole cause of good roads given a greater
urge.
The German Indemnity.
THE question of German indemnity, in
stead of being settled at the drafting
of the Peace Treaty, was left to the
judgment of the Reparations Commission, the
idea being that time and careful inquiry would
" be needful to show what the enemy was
capable of paying. It was agreed on all parts,
- outside of the Central alliance, that no sum
of money, howsoever large, could compensate
the losses and injuries which the defenders
of freedom had suffered. Prudent statesmen
realized, however, that to exact of the German
people more than they could well produce
would be almost as unwise as to let them go
with no reminder at all of the costs and
penalties of Prussianism. Insistence upon
the pound of flesh could serve only to harden
their hatreed of the victors and to vindicate
«■_ in their minds the policies of their defeated
S- masters.
Nothing of that sort was wished by any
“"discerning friend of peace and justice. The
■ end most to be desired was in the beginning
as it is now, not merely the vanquishraent of
the German army, but the supplanting of the
spirit of German militarism, as embodied in
a people’s thought, by sane and, if possible,
democratic ideas; for thus only could well
grounded security and real concord be vouch
safed. But this, it was obvious, could not
accomplished if German taxpayers were so
nurdened and crushed by tribute to foreign
treasuries that they would come, even in the
days of peace, to think of the Allies as alto
gether pitiless and oppressive, and to think
of their own Government through which this
tribute was collected and paid as despicable
and deserving to be overthrown. That would
be just the state of mind most impervious to
democratic influences and most favorable to
a revival of the old monarchist and military
order.
Wisely, then, the Allied leaders decided
that instead of stipulating at the outset some
such indemnity as forty, sixty or one hundred
and twenty billion dollars (suggestions
ranged around these figures) they would
await the light d*f investigation and informed
counsel. By just what paths the conclusion
has been reached we are not told, but reports
from San Remo have it that the reparation
most likely to be named is in the neighbor
hood of fifteen billion dollars. Lloyd George
and Nitti are said to approve this sum and
to favor its being stipulated without further
delay. Objections from France are to be ex-
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pected, though they will hardly prove un
adjustable.
i Conditions within Germany indicate the
need of prompt action in this matter. A writer
in the New York Times, after showing how
continued uncertainty of the total amount
may have checked the Germans’ readiness to
get fully and steadily back to work, observes
that there is now the much more serious
question of their willingness to pay anything
at all. Just recently, he points out, “they
formally requested the Supreme Council for
permission to keep a powerful nucleus of the
old army, together with the entire General
Staff and officers’ corps.” Now if the
Treaty is to be carried out the
General Staff must be abolished. More
over, as the Times writer adds, “The
officers’ corps is organized, not for an
army of two hundred thousand, the normal
though far less than actual strength of the
forces Germany wants to maintain, but for
an army of eight hundred thousand.” The
reasons given by the German authorities in
asking this extraordinary concession are
significant and disquieting. “An increased
army,’’ they say “is necessary for the main
tenance of order, and furthermore the army
will not accept an order for its dissolution.”
“Will not acept!’’ An omnious attitude, this.
One can understand Foch’s wariness and all
France’s uneasiness.- f
Evidently there is need of the Allies get
ting down to business on all the terms of
peace. Indecision in the matter of reparation
or any other essential can no longer be al
lowed without serious hazard. 11l advised as
it would be to impose a larger indemnity
than Germany could live under, there should
be no dilatoriness and no unwarranted con
cessions. Justice tempered with mercy is al
wavs right and always wise. But the two
must go together if either is to be effective
of larger ends. It is of the utmost impor
tance, therefore, that an indemnity consis
tent with reasonable and humane standards
be decided upon and then, together with the
other terms of the Treaty, be pressed firmly
to fulfillment.
—♦-
A Fertile Opportunity
THE Columbus Enquirer-Sun seasonably
suggests that if the supply of certain
farm products in Georgia and neigh
boring States is not equal to the demand, it
is largely because business interests have
not made it profitable for the planter to
raise those things. “The Southern farmer,’’
says our contemporary, “has learned through
experience that the one-crop system will not
give him the reward to which he is en
titled: he grows most of what he needs for
himself and a great deal that he offers for
sale.” But,
“He cannot engage in crop diversifi
cation in as large a measure as he should
until markets are provided for the va
rious crops he can grow. He cannot af
ford to raise large quantities of sweet
potatoes, for instance, unless he is as
sured of an outlet for them. He can
not afford to spend his money and la
bor on a crop for which he cannot find
a market.”
Commercial and civic organizations in
terested in upbuilding their particular com
munities and in promoting the prosperity of
the State can undertake no more fertile field
of service than that of providing these need
ed markets. Much already has been done up
on this'line in Georgia, and the Common
wealth is far richer and more progressive as
a result. It is noteworthy, too, that the
towns which are growing most swiftly and
most substantially are, in the main, those
that have provided markets for food crops
and food animals, thereby encouraging well
rounded development for the resources of
their surrounding country.
There is a demand, we may be sure, for
every ounce of foodstuffs our farms can
produce; it remains only to supply channels
of communication between the planter and
the consumer —storage facilities, mills, can
ning plants, packing houses and the like. To
the extent that business enterprise rises to
-its interests and its obligations in this mat
ter the common welfare will be conserved
and quickened.
’ «
A Genius in Recuperation.
PICTURE a land less than one-fifth as
large as Georgia, invaded and tram
pled down, held for four years in
the grip of a hostile army, “combed for its
last strand of flax, squeezed for its last drop
of wine, sifted for its last speck of gold,”
stripped of a seventh of its population by an
orden deporting multitudes of its people to
labor as virtual slaves in the enemy’s coun
try, and left dependent for its daily bread
upon cargoes from humane friends across
the sea. Picture this Belgium as it lay when
Hindenburg’s legions began their retreat two
summers ago, and then conceive of it today
as one of the world’s most productive, most
thriving, most orderly, most progressive na
tions. Rarely, if ever, before has history wit
nessed so striking a case of recuperative
genius.
Writing from Brussels where he fills the
responsible post of United States Trade Com
missioner, Mr. C. E. Herring, reports that
within a twelvemonth after the armistice Bel
gium ceased rationing her people, being the
first of the European belligerents to do so;
that within the same period she reduced liv
ing costs from one thousand one hundred
and ten per cent, above normal to two hundred
and forty-four per cent; that by the begin
ning of the present year she had restored
to a pre-war average of production, seventy
five per cent of her textMe mills and eighty
seven per cent of her coal mines, had re
established all of her railways, and had re
duced the ranks of the involuntarily unem
ployed from a million to none. As evidence
of the country’s earning capacity, Current
History points out that whereas the tax re
turns for the first six months of the fiscal
year had been estimated at sixty million dol
lars, they proved to be approximately a third
more than that sum. Further: “In the year
before the war the trade of Belgium, export,
import and transit, amounted to $1,725,000,-
000; in 1919 it amounted to $1,022,000,000’’
—a most remarkable recovery.
In the light of such a record shall we not
have to supplement Caesar’s tribute so that
it may run, “Os all these the Belgians were
the bravest—and the thriftiest.” Compari
sons, of course, are really foolish when we
comt to the splendid achievements, both in
the war’s midst and in its aftermath, of those
nations that held the vanguard of the fight
for freedom; each has played its peculiarly
glorious part. But as the first to feel the
shock and pain of the enemy’s onset, little
Belgium stands especially admired in her
speedy recuperation.
America never enjoyed a happier privilege
than that of aiding in some measure those
processes of recovery. A cherished privilege
it was to send food to Belgium in her heavy
affliction and to send material and labor to
expedite her rebuilding. The closer relations
which thus have sprung up across thousands
of ocean leagues is witnessed partly in com
merce. In the twelvemonth preceding the
war Belgian imperts to the value of one hun
dred million dollars came from the United
States; in the first ten months of 1919 those
figures increased to three hundred million.
May the warm and substantial friendship thus
fostered continue without end.
“Spongey April” and “the showerful
spring’’ are charming enough in poetry; but
they become too much of a good thing when
they leave the bealted husbandman hardly
1 a day for tillage.
THOSE GERMS
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE are certain facts about disease
germs it is well always to keep in
mind. And they are facts particularly
deserving of recall at this time of year—the
season of the great spring housecleaning.
First and foremost is the fact that germs
thrive in darkness and in moisture.
If there are any unusually dark corners in
the house, or if there are any places where
moisture can cling, these are the corners and
these the places where the germs of disease
are most likely to be lurking.
Which means that the housewife should
most vigorously attack precisely the parts of
the house usually overlooked unless the
spring house cleaning is really thorough.
It is ot the rooms in their entirety most
It is not the rooms in rheir entirety most
need to be kept clean, from the point of view
of healthfulness. Direct sunlight is fatal to
most germs in a very few minutes.
But let germs find a place to hide away—
especially a place where they can procure
moisture —and they may retain disease-pro
ducing vitality for a surprisingly long time.
Diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis germs
have been known to live for weeks in damp,
cool and dark quarters.
Cellar walls and floors, attic recesses,
spaces under stairways, dark corners under
sinks, etc., consequently call more urgently
for cleaning than any open, well ventilated,
well lighted portion of the house.
And the cleaning of every portion should
be so done that the air will not be filled with
flying dust specks that possibly have disease
germs attached to them.
It is proverbial that with the coming of,
spring many people suffer from colds, sore
throats, and similar affections, albeit they
may have perhaps gone through the winter
free from diseases of any kind.
Commonly this is attributed to the lowered
vitality that is a recognized sequel to the
overeating and overheating, the under-exer
cising, and the underventilating practices too
widespread in winter.
But even lowered vitality diseases such as
colds and sore throats would not result unless
the germs causing them were taken into the
system. Obviously they can most readily be
taken in if the air is exceptionally germ laden,
as it is apt to be under careless houseclean
ing.
Sometimes, in fact, a direct connection be
tween housecleaning and conditions of ill
health is perceived by the victims themselves.
As one woman informed her doctor:
“I used to suffer every time I cleaned
house. It used to make me feel so bad and
gave me such a peculiar sensation in my chest
that I wanted to put my hands on my chest.
And at those times I would spit black.”
It was this woman’s custom to sweep with
her windows closed. Opening the windows
and doors, so that there was always a strong
outgoing current of air to carry away the
dust, relieved her completely of her symp
toms. , L ,
Better still, however, is the employment of
a vacuum cleaner. Or, if such a cleaner can
not be used, the beating of all rugs and car- j
pets outdoors, and the cleaning of all wood- i
work with scrubbing brushes and moist cloths
is the rule of safety for the avoidance of
housecleaning infections.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
WHAT WILL THE NEW WOMAN
VOTERS DO?
By Dr. Frank Crane.
It is possible that the thirty-sixth state
may not ratify the nineteenth amendment
extending to women the franchise right in
time for the women of eighteen states to
vote for president this year. Still some
17 000,000 women will vote in thirty states.
How will they vote? Will the entrance of
.hie new body of voters into the political
ists seriously affect results?
Probably extremists on both sides will be
disappointed. Women average up about a»
men. There is not much difference. That
is why they have a right to vote —because
there is little difference.
In some respects women are worse polit
ically than men. They are more subject to
partisanship. For the political party owes
its power and coherence to passion, preju
dice and blind loyalty. In these directions
the female of the species is more deadly
than the male. .
She is more profoundly stirred by her
emotions, which are less controlled by the
ntelligence. She is subject to intense preju
dices. And she has away of sticking loy
ally to a person or a cause even when said
person or cause is proved to be wholly un 4
worthy.
The most irreconcilable rebels of the
south are the women. The women of the
French revolution excelled the men in their
passionate excesses. The bulwark of all
monarchies, divine rights, castes and hier
archies is woman. '
Hence we may look to women for no mili
gation of the cancerous growth of partisan
hip.
On the other hand, women are much more
than men susceptible to moral appeals.
Their faults, as noted above, are splendid
faults; and their virtues are also splendid.
They are not controlled so much as men
are by considerations of expediency. They
are more willing to do right even when it
does not pay and is not “practical.”
That is the great advantage in having
the woman voter.
She will vote steadily against war, against
alcohol and against red rule.
Maybe.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
The temporary waiter looked the part to
perfection. He was tall and slim, and bowed
quite gracefully. Mrs. Smithjones, who had
employed him to impress her friends, felt
quite elated. He gave a real “tone” to her
party.
But there’s always some cloud in the sky,
isn’t there? As the waiter .handed a plate
of soup to Uncle Walter, the old gentleman
eyed him angrily.
“Look out, you idiot!” he stormed. “Don’t
you see you’ve got your thumb in my soup?”
“That’s all right, sir!” replied the waiter
casually. “It isn’t burning me. It’s not near
ly as hot as it looks.”
Several elderly ladies who were giving a.
dance for a certain charity felt that every
thing must be run as economically as pos
sible. One approached the leader of the or
chestra with this proposition:
“Couldn’t you possibly supply us with mu
sic cheaper? A good many of us do not
dance, you know.”
A girl and a man sat under the palm just
outside the ballroom.
“As true,” the man answered,' in low, pas
sionate tones, “as true as the delicate flush
on your cheek.”
“Oh—er—ah,” the girl stammered hur
riedly, “isn’t —doesn’t the band play nicely?”
He was an argumentative local councillor and
was crushing an opponent’s case.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “you may say with
Counsellor Smith, that this is a case of six of
one and half a dozen of the other. But I say
no”—pause for emphasis—“No; it is nothing
of the sort. It is exactly the contrary.”
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
According to a statement from.
Washington the house bill increas
ing pensions of Civil war veterans
to SSO monthly and those of veter
ans’ widows to S3O monthly was
passed recently by the senate and
now goes to conference. Senate
amendments make the increases ap
plicable to 215 veterans of the Mexi
can war and 1,576 widows of Mexi
can war veterans, as well as 73
widows of veterans of the War of
1812.
The present average pension of
veterans is .$37.50 and that of wid
ows $25. The measure will aid
about $65,250,000 to the present pen
sion roll of $214,000,000. Last June
there were 271,520 Civil war veterans
and 336,375 widows' and dependents
on the pension rolls.
The bill provides pensions up to
S9O monthly for disabled veterans.
The great commercial awakening
that has taken place in China shows
no sign of abating' and American
manufacturers are beginning to rec
ognize that in- China lie greater op
portunities than anywhere else in
the world. For the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1914, the- United States
imported nearly $40,000,000 and ex
ported $25,000,000 worth of merchan
dise; but in 1919 our imports had
jumped to over $145,000,000 and the
exports to nearly $110,000,000,
The exodus of Italian working
men returning to Italy has seriously
affected the silk industry in this
country, which is handicapped by an
increasing shortage of skilled work
men. Thousands are said to have
left the silk manufacturing center
of the United States.
Converse & Co. have been appoint
ed as exclusive selling agents for the
Lynchburg Cotton mills. Later this
plant will be absorbed by the Con
solidated Textile corporation.
A large and thoroughly up-to-date
mill in Somersworth, N. H., and to
cost $4,500,000, will be built at once,
being 1,850 feet long. Building of
reinforced concrete mushroom type.
Two units of 75,000 spindles and
3,100 looms will be set up in the new
plant. Oil will be used as fuel and
the power will be from electricity.
The Statesville, N. C., Cotton mills
have added $250,000 to their capital
of $250,000.
Representatives here of the Brit
ish government professed ignorance
of any investigation of reports that
a plot was being hatched in New
York to foment simultaneous up
rising in various British dependen
cies. Cable despatches received re
cently from London stated that Brit
ish officials were conducting an in
quiry into constantly reiterated re
ports that a conspiracy was afoot in
this city for revolts in Egypt, India,
Ireland and Canada.
One important British official said
his only knowledge of plot or in
vestigating was that carried in press
despatches.
Members of the Old Clothes club,
who have been in good standing for
years and years, met yesterday in
Newark, N. J., to protest against the
spread of the movement and sent a
delegation to the mayor to make that
protest formal.
The burden of the complaint of
those who hitherto have had the priv
ilege of wearing the cast-off clothing
of other persons, was, “What we goin’
to wear if they quit castin’ them?”
“This overall and old clothes move
ment hits us harder than anyone
else,” the leader of the delegation, a
well-known lounge lizard in one of
Newark’s most popular “flop houses,”
told the mayor. “Heretofore, every
spring, when folks began <o clean up,
we inherited a wardrobe sufficient to
tide us over for the year. Now,
they’re wearing their old clothes and
our wardrobes are on the bum.”
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.
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, jhould make an effort to get
Manure Salt for side dressing to aid in making a big
Cotton Crop.
Muriate of Potash
SO 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
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1920.
Congressional leaders in the move
ment for budgetary reform are to
day attempting to correct an erro
neous impression among a great
many people of the country that the
adoption by congress of an execu
tive budget system will, of itself,
effect a latge reduction in. federal
expenditures and a corresponding re
duction in taxation.
This belief has arisen from sev
eral widely published statements by
influential and constructive citizens
in which it was estimated in round
numbers the tota>i saving that an
executive budget system, if adopt
ed, will bring about. Principal among
these statements was one by Rodger
Babson, nationally known statistical
expert, who declared that the gov
ernment would be operated at a de
creased cost of $2,000,000,000 a year
under the proposed system of ad
ministering national fiscal affairs.
India’s poverty has a contribut
ing factor in the high cost of mar
riages, according to Sumitraray Ram
akrisna Modak, of Bombay, who says
that if the Indian laborers have
money they will always spend it on
marj-iages. For marriages they will
borrow money and mortgage their
property, and as a result they are
always in debt. It matters not
whether a family lives in poverty
during its entire existence, if the
marriage ceremonies of the members
of the family are ornately and elab
orately “carried on.”
Although 80 per cent of the In
dians are agriculturists, only 2 per
cent of these farmers are free from
debt. Every season they borrow for
tilling, harvesting and for market
ing, so that they always work on
borrowed money. The farmer does
not sell in the market, but the pro
duce is sold by money lenders. The
establishment of many industrial in
stitutions by missionary societies is
proving a practical solution of the
problem.—Detroit News.
Any search and seizure by federal
prohibition agents that would amount
to trespass under constitutional law
is illegal. Federal Judge Clarence
W. Sessions, of Marquette. Mich.,
stated during the trial of Ccalcucci
brothers, in connection with the Iron
River “whisky rebellion.”
“A revenue agent could never in
vade my home or my premises with
out a search warrant unless I should
give him permission," the judge said.
Bandits attacked a train a few
nights ago on which Queen Victoria
of Spain and her brother, the Mar
quis of Carisbrooke. were traveling
from Madrid to Seville In an unsuc
cessful attempt to carry off the royal
plate, which the queen was taking
with her.
The robbers, who were well armed,
opened a regular fusillade when dis
covered, wounding two of the railway
men, one of them probably mortally.
The bandits escaped in a two-horse
carriage, leaving no clew to their
identity.
According to a statement by Com
missioner Williams, at Washington,
despite the government’s war-time
appeal for tax payments as a pa
triotic duty, more than 300,000 firms
and individuals failed to make honest
returns under the revenue laws the
last two years, the bureau of inter
nal revenue announced recently. In
a six months’ drive, which ended
February 1, $19,051,000 in delinquent
taxes were collected.
Covington, Ky.. has the fever, too.
Overalls for firemen and khaki uni
forms for members of the police de
partment is the plan of L. E. Bullock,
safety commissioner, who stated he
would present it at the next meeting
of city commissioners. “Police and
firemen cannot afford to pay present
prices for uniforms,” he said.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
Praise and Blame
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
, BY DOROTHY DI?;
Did you ever pause to consider the |
relative effectiveness of praise and
blame, just as weapons of offense and
defense?
Especially in the family circle.
And more especially with children.
We don’t realize it, but we grown
ups hardly ever speak to children ex
cept to find fault with them, which
must be pretty wearing on the nerves
of the children. Not to say anything
of being disheartening and discour
aging. Not without cause did the
little boy, when asked his name, reply
that it was, “Willie Don’t” —and per
sisted in the assertion that that was
what he was called at home.
Our daily communion with our off
spring runs something like this:
“Willie, don’t make so much noise.
Don’t eat with your knife. Don’t
scraps your feet on the floor. Don’t
whistle. How many times have I
told you not to leave your skates in
the living room, and not to make
finger prints on that mahogany table.
Why don’t you study your Lessons,
and for pity’s sake can’t you act like
a gentleman instead of a hoodlum?”
•Yes, life for the average child is
just one don’t after another, and fa
miliarity breeds contempt, so .that he
gets to the place where he doesn’t
even hear them, to say nothing of
being restrained by them. As one
child said to me with unconscious
cynicism, “Oh, mother’s got the don’t
habit. She always says don’t no
matter what you ask her, so we just
go along and do as we please.”
Os course parents say, and truly,
that they must correct their chil
dren’s faults, and that they must
keep them from doing the things
which they should not do, but they
do not accomplish this by ceaseless
fault finding and nagging.
They overlook one of the funda
mental characteristics of humanity,
which is the impulse we all have to
live up to our blue china and to be
what people expect us to be. This
instinct is peculiarly strong in the
breast of children. They are essen
tially imitative and will form them
selves on any model that is held up
before them.
There is, therefore, no way in
which you can so surely make a boy
rough, and tough, as by telling him
that he is rough and tough, and
centering his attention on his un
couthness. Eventually he will come
to take a pride in being a hoodlum,
and trampling all of the decencies of
conventions under foot.
On the other hand, to make a boy a
gentleman is to praise him for his
good manners and his courtesy. Tell
him that you are so glad that he does
not hold his knife and fork in the
awkward way in which some other
little boy does, and you will never
have to worry over his table man
ners again.
Let him see that you observe that
he took his hat off in an elevator, and
that he stood up when ladies entered
a room, and that he never fails to
give his seat to a woman on the car,
and you will make a considerate and
courteous gentleman of him because
you have given him a knightly stand-
I.ard of himself to which he has to
live up.
How well this plan works out in
dealing with children, I saw very
vividly illustrated once in the case
of a little boy whom I knew. This
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child was no student and hated
school, and even disliked to read. One
time when there were guests at din
ner at his home some discussion
arose over a point in American his
tory. The little boy, who had just
had that period of history in his
school lesson, was able to set the
whole company right. His gratified
mother related the circumstance m,
his hearing to two or three friends,
on different occasions and wound up
by saying, “You know Benny is quite
a historian.”
Up to that minute Benny had never
taken the slightest interest in his
tory, but believing that other people
thought he was a historian and ex
pected him to be an authority <>m
history, set him to work, and at
last he did become a historian and
a professor of history in a famous
university. He had to make good, and
he did.
To be forever harping on chil
dren’s defects simply intensities
them. To be eternally calling atten
tion to a shy child’s shyness or to an
awkward child’s awkwardness can
have no other effect than to make
them morbidly self-conscious and
shyer and more awkward still. To
throw a dull child’s dullness in its
face is to cut off the last ray of
hope by making it feel that it ia
hopelessly stupid.
But a little praise, a little flattery
will give the shy and the awkward
enough courage to overcome their
defects, a little fostering of belief in
himself will help the dullard to
make the best of his limited ability.
And in J:he marital relationship,
are not husbands and wives largely
responsible for the way they are
treated? If a man never does any
thing but find fault, with his wife,
if he berates her extravagance, and
criticizes her cooking, and sneers at
her judgment, and makes sarcast’c
remarks about marriage in general,
and his own marriage in particular,
is it any wonder that the wife does
not think it worth while to take any
trouble to please him, or to make
herself attractive to him, and that
she becomes just as disagreeable as
he represents her to be?
But if a man openly admires hl<4
wife, if he praises her cooking, and'
holds her up as a model of thrift
and good management, and if ho
boasts that she makes her home the
pleasantest place on earth, is it not
inevitable that that wife will work
herself to death trying to be the
cook and housekeeper her husband';
thinks hereto be, and bite her tongue;
off rather than say one cross Word;
that would spoil the fancy pteturo l
of hy temper that he has drawn? i
And if a woman is forever com
plaining that her husband is grouchy!
and disagreeable to live with, that!
he is cold toward her, and if she
reads him lectures every time be.
comes in a little late at night, who
can blame him if he justifies her
strictures, for there is small tempta- ;
tion to come home to a nagging wife,
or to kiss whining lips? ' j
But if a woman is forever telling
her husband how kind and good anil
generous he Is to her. and how she
thanks heaven for having vouchsafed
her such a treasure. Is it not dollar®
to doughnuts that he will be to her,
indeed, a matrimonial prize.
For it is oil and not sand in th®
gear box that makes things go, ami
the salve spreader is mightier thin
the hammer.
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