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An Injus tic to the South and to
The Common Country.
IN their movement to redress the grave
injustice done the South in the omission
of Confederate names from the Arling
ton memorial amphitheater, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy and other lead
ers in this high effort merit full-hearted sup
port from the common country. For it is
not the South alone hut all America that
would be wronged if in a building designed
to honor the' nation’s warriors from the days
of Lexington and Concord to Chateau Thierry
and Argonne Wod there should be no ref
erence to the heroes who fought beneath the
Stars and Bars.
Their valor, their genius, their knightli
ness, though peculiarly sacred to Southern
folk, are the heritage of all America. Their
achievements are the marvel of all readers
of history, abroad as well as here, and are
still the basis for essential military studies
throughout the world. It is not simply the
sentiment of the Soutjj but the judgment of
informed and thoughtful minds everywhere
that history holds few soldiers the peers of
Stonewall Jackson, and no character more
noble than Robert E. Lee. To omit names
like these from a shrine of the republic’s
soldiership would be egregiously foolish as
well as unjust. Indeed, it seems inexplicable,
save on grounds of a strange misunderstand
ing of Congress’ spirit and purpose in pro
viding for the memorial, that the commission
charged with selecting names for entablature
should have failed to include representatives
of the Confederate armies. In this day and
time, when two generations of Southern
youth, sons and grandsons of Confederate
sires, have swarmed to battle under the Stars
and Stripes and given their lives by gallant
thousands in its defense, we cannot conceive
of a sectionalism so churlish and ignorant as
to deny the Old South’s chieftains their sim
ple due.
The astounding fact is, however, that the
memorial amphitheater has. been construct
ed and dedicated, with never a tablet or
line to those deathless names. Naturally the
Daughters of the Confederacy and other pa
triotic institutions in the South, together with
unnumbered individuals, are protesting; and
just as naturally multitudes of right-minded,
right-hearted Americans in other regions
share the feeling. It is beautifully significant
and altogether appropriate that Representa
tive Sherwood of Ohio, a distinguished veter
an of the Union army who fought in more
than thirty battles and who is now eighty
four years old, has introduced in the House
a resolution calling for rectification of the
wrong which has been done the South and
the common country. A similar measure has
been introduced in the Senate- by Senator
Overman, of North Carolina.
The matter is being urged with the ear
nestness of deep conviction and high pa
triotism; and it should continue to be urged
until justice is forthcoming.
Better Times Are Pro mis ed
South O] the Rio Grande.
IT is a frequently observed and highly en
couraging circumstance that the leaders
of the new movement in Mexico are
manifesting careful regard for the lives and
interests of foreigners. This policy is the
more noticeable and refreshing because of
its rarity under the fallen regime. Carran
za was never friendly to Americans and sel
dom so to any others who came to cast
their lot with his country, unless they bore
the stamp of Berlin. In the war’s crucial pe
riod, when other Latin American republics
were taking a gallant stand with the United
States for justice and democracy, he was
undisguisedly pro-German.
This was but one exhibition of the short
sightedness and perversity which character
ized hik administration and brought Mex
ico’s affairs into so grievous a tangle. Wheth
er the fault lay yith Carranza himself or
with his associates or in the temper of the
times (and it must be admitted that these
were greatly to his disadvantage) the fact
remains that the years of his rule were al
most as barren of progress as were those of
the internal war and confusion from which
he rose to power. There was no encourage
ment to the country’s liberal and construc
tive minds to cooperate with the so-called
Government at Mexico City, nor was there
any responsiveness in that quarter to the
good will of the United States. Constructive
undertakings, if lucky enough to get even
a start, had to fight their way against sand
blind politics. Banditry went uncontrolled
and well nigh unchallenged by the Federal
authorities. Foreign investors, even those of
the worthiest and most substantial type, had
scant assurance of bare justice, much less a
heartening friendliness, from the powers that
were. From such a regime next to nothing
was to be hoped for, and assuredly nothing
to rejoice in was forthcoming.
While it is yet too early to gauge the
strength of the newly mustered forces or to
predict how well their several leadings will
accord, nearly all reports agree that the
prospect is distinctly brighter than it has
been for many a day or for many a year. So
informed and conservative an institution as
the National City Bank of New York declares
concerning the outlook: “It is safe
to say that in spite of difficulties which may
follow the attempts of the reactionary ele
ment to maintain itself in power, the even
tual condition of Mexico will certainly be
better within six months than it has been
in many years. Mexico has a patriotic and
highly educated group of citizens rea-
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lize that no nation lives to itself alone, and
that if Mexico is to prosper and develop it |
must take its place among the other nations .
that extend a hospitable hand to outside en- j
ergy, ideas and capital. This is plainly the
group who are directing the revolt against
the selfish and mediaeval policies of Car
ranza and his backers, whose chief sport
consisted in baiting foreign enterprise and
capital and of placing all possible obstacles
in the way of any enterprise which was not
for their own particular benefit.”
If the patriotic and constructive forces
make common cause, times incomparably
better than those of the last turbulent dec
ade may be expected south of the Rio Grande.
The clouds will not clear in a day, nor the
heritage of long misrule be overcome with
out years of wise and loyal effort. But with
the safeguards and incentives of even fairly
efficient government, provided it be it the
same time just, a country so wondrously en
dowed as Mexico is certain to prosper and to
take her place among the friends of liberty
and light.
The United States is abundantly recom
pensed for having been patient and sympathe
tic with the trials of this unhappy neigh
bor. Now that a friendlier order of things
is promised across the border, we can well
afford to continue a magnanimous policy.
An Interesting Suggestion for
The Democratic Nomination.
WHEN a newspaper as great, as well
poised, and as free from political op
portunism as the New York Times
suggests a candidate for the presidency of the
United States, the country is sure to listen
with uncommon interest. For in this nation
serving Journal which, while Democratic in
disposition, is independent of all parties, the
public recognizes an exponent of America’s
soundest and, In the long run, most influ
ential thought. The Times, as any observer
will grant, is not given to chasing band
wagons or to tippling on sudden enthusiasms.
It thinks before it writes, and writes what
it really thinks. Naturally, then, tliera will
be a deal of consideration over its recent
editorial urging upon the Democrats, “the
name of a man”
"whose distinguished ability and stand
ing are attested by the high honors he
has already received from the party, a
man who is qualified not only to pass the
tests and challenges of a trying cam
paign, but to discharge with credit to
himself and with advantage to the
country, the duties of the Presidency.
We mean John W. Davis, at present
Ambassador to the United States at Lon
don.”
Those qualified to judge agree that Mr.
Davis is among the ablest and altogether
most admirable Americans of the time, pro
found in his understanding of the nation’s
laws and institutions, devoted to her high
est interests and honor, an executive of ex
traordinary grasp, a thinker of extraordinary
breadth apd penetration. A West Virginian
by birth, he graduated from Washington
and Lee University, was admitted to the bar
in 1595, and in his twenty-sixth year be
came a member of the West Virginia House
of Delegates. In 1910 he was elected to Con
gress from the First West Virginia district,
being the first Democrat in fourteen years
to carry that steel-ribbed Republican strong
hold. His record in the Sixty-second and
Sixty-third Congress is at once brilliant and
His was a notable part in the
great legislation of those years, and rarely
equalled is the ease with which he found
favor and Influence among his colleagues,
from the newcomers to the grayest veterans.
Mr. Davis resigned from Congress to become
Solicitor General of the United States. In
1918 he was chosen as American commis
sioner to arrange for the exchange of war
prisoners and for the amelioration of their
treatment. Soon afterwards he was appointed
to the Ambassadorship he now holds, the
most distinguished and important place in
the nation’s diplomatic service.’
Thus experienced in the nation’s domestic
and foreign affairs, he impresses the Times
as
a candidate sure to command great
strength in his party, even beyond the
lines of his party;-as a man who, if
elected, would bring to the executive of
fice high qualifications of character,
learning, cultivation, long experience in
public affairs, full knowledge of the pro
cesses of the Government and personal
qualities that have won for him the
friendship, confidence and admiration of
all with whom he has been associated.
We express an opinion widely shared in
this country when we say that John W.
• Davis is a great man, a great American,
a great Democrat. The Democratic paity
would immensely strengthen itself in the
confidence of the country by giving its
nomination to a man of his mental sta
ture, his statesmanlike amplitude and
qualification.
Thoughts like these were rising, no doubt,
in many minds before the Times articulated
them so cogently. In the dissensions and
weakening compromises to which the Repub
lican party seems fated, keen observers see
large hopes and large opportunities for
Democracy, provided a leader to whom the
rank and file of Americans can confidently
turn is nominated at San Francisco. The
suggestion of John W. Davis in this connec
tion will at least arouse high interest.
The Immigrant Tide Turns
Toward These Shores Again.
AFTER ebbing to a mere trickle in the
last year of the World War our im
migrant tide gives signs of rolling
strong again. Arrivals at the port of New York
recently aggregated upwards of ten thou
sand for a single week, at which rate a
twelvemonth’s total would exceed half a mil
lion. This, of course, is far below the pre
war average, which in the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1914, reached one million, two
hundred and eighteen thousand, four hun
dred and eighty. '
Those figures are not likely to be approx
imated in the near future, even though we
should loosen restrictions to their old lax
ness. Five summers of fighting and four
winters of beggarly feeding served to reduce
the sources whence America’s immigrant
flood was wont to'pour. It is not improbable,
moreover, that several European govern
ments would prohibit departures if the out
flow became as heavy as in years gone; for
whereas aforetime each emigrant meant sim
ply one mouth less to feed, each now means
one less pair ot hands to work or to help
supply the yawning tax till. Authorities be
lieve accordingly that insofar as excess’ in
numbers is concerned, our immigration prob
lem will be much simpler than hitherto.
Nevertheless, there is need of well consid
ered measures against the admission of un
desirable aliens, of whom multitudes are
said to be awaiting a chance to sail for these
shores. Surely, our recent experience with
anarchistic and morally irresponsible types
should make us exceedingly careful in the
future. Nor should we ever go back to the
short-sighted policy of admitting immigrants
by hundreds of thousands and millions re
gardless of whether the country is able
economically to assimilate them and to ab
sorb them politically.
This is not to imply that the gates should
be shut against those who will add to the
nation’s productiveness. If there is one out
standing material need in this country totjay
it is the need of willing and capable work
ers. For lack of hands nearly all industries
IF YOU FORGET
By H. Addington Bruce
FREQUENTLY the question is put to me:
“What can I do to improve my mem
ory? It is treacherous even in regard
to important business matters. Details which
I ought to remember slip entirely out of my
mind, often at serious cost to me, and always
at great embarrassment.
“There must be away by which I can over
come this unfortunate tendency to forget.
Can’t you offer a helpful suggestion?”
The most helpful suggestion I can offer to
those whose memory for business details is
weak is to advise them to cultivate a keener
interest in their work.
Special causes for forgetfulness are, of
course, present in certain cases. Some people
are forgetful because they are chronically
over-fatigued. Others because their brain is
poisoned by over-eating. And so forth.
But, generally speaking, when a man for
gets business matters which he should with
out fail remember it is a pretty sure sign that
he is not as interested in his work as he
might be.
Memory power, understand well, is largely
dependent on the degree of attention paid to
whatever is to be remembered. And atten
tion varies directly with the degree of interest
felt.
Besides which, interest leads not merely
to the paying of attention, but to frequent
thinking about the things to which attenion
is paid. This has a direct and determining in
fluence on memory development. As was
long ago pointed out by the psychologist Wil
liam James:
“The ‘secret of a good memory’ is the secret
of forming diverse pnd multiple associations
with every fact we care to retain. But this
forming of associations with a fact, what is it
but thinking about the fact as much as pos
sible?
“Briefly, then, of two men with the same
outward experience and the same amount of
native tenacity, the one who thinks over his
experiences most and weaves them into sy s
termatic relations with each other will be
the one with the best memory.’’
Obviously, when interest in one’s work is
weak, or comparatively weak, there will be
scant forming of association links in the mind
through attention and reflective thinking
about the business details it is important to
remember.
The mind will busy itself with other things.
And if interest in those other things is keen,
a surprising memory power for them may re
sult, contrasting strangely with the weakness
of memory for business matters.
Thus, for example, we see many men dis
playing almost incredible memory power for
the “records” of baseball teams and players,
of aspirants for pugilistic honors, of “six-day”
bicycle riders. Yet these same men may be
quite unable to carry in their minds price
lists, business appointments, etc.
If then, you are among the habitually
forgetful of things having to do with your
businss, examine yourself closely with re
spect to the interest you feel in that busi
ness. If you find —as you are likely to find
—that your interests in it is pale and thin,
at once set about cultivating a genuine en
thusiasm for it.
Otherwise all training methods will fail to
overcome the memory weakness for which, at
bottom, you are yourself responsible. With
real interest lacking appreciable memory im
provements can never be achieved.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
POPULAR FRENZY
By Dr. Frank Crane
There is a notion that lingers in the back
of many minds, like snow in shaded places
in May, that progress comes through “lead
ers,” that the world is lifted up by its super
men.
As a matter of fact, it is pushed up by its
common men.
Trust the people, believe in the people,
give the people a chance to get what they
want —this is the only highway to the mil
lennium.
The idea that the people don’t know what
is good for them, that they need to be ruled,
protected, managed, whether by a Solomon
or a Trotzky, a landed gentry or a proletariat,
leads to the ditch of monarchy, caste and
eventual ruin.
The fundamental principle of democracy
is that the people are to be trusted, just as
the basic idea of Jesus’ religion was that
humanity is to be trusted.
The great law of growth is that men are
developed by responsibility and by showing
them that you have confidence in them.
To think that God believes in me does
more to make a man of me than to think I
believe in God.
The only way to make a people worthy of
self-government is to give them self-govern
ment.
The only way to teach a boy to swim is
to throw him in where it is deep. Learning
to swim, and not going near the water, is a
crazy notion.
From the beginning “wise statesmen” have
vapored about “safeguards” against the peo
ple. ,
In England the house of lords was a great
check upon the “folly” of the people, until
the commons had to arise and hew the -old
humbug in- order to get anything done.
Ever since the foundation of this republic
a certain class of alleged statesmen have
been fearful of popular frenzy and busy
erecting bulwarks against it.
The very bedrock principle of this repub
lic is that if you let the people alone, give
them a chance; establish freedom and let
them work out their will in their own way,
you will get the surest equity.
“Popular frenzy?” When did this people
in a nation-wide enthusiasm ever do an un
righteous thing?
It was “popular frenzy” that instigated
the Revolution and made this country a na
tion in defiance of precedent; that crushed
secession and liberated the slaves; freed the
coming generation from the saloon incubus;
elevated women to citizenship. What re
form, what forward step in civilization, ever
originated in a- senate or a king’s council?
When did the Magnificent Ones ever free a
slave or right a wrong until they were kicked
to it?
The one utterly incorruptible body is the
whole people.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
’ ♦
If anybody complains of this sunful sea
son, professing a desire for cooler days, he
ought to be consigned to some such ’frozen
inferno as Dante saw on his inspection of
fickle and ungrateful souls. Give us warm
weather, and more of it!
are handicapped and operations of vital im
portance to the public are sadly curtailed.
Nowhere is labor shortage felt more dis
tressfully than in the South, whose agricul
ture is really suffering for want of tillers
and helpers. For several years the farmers of
this region have watched with ever increas
ing anxiety the approach of seed and harvest
times, and have borne the burden of sum
mer cultivation with more and more diffi
culty. Today the problem is critical; • but
unless there is somehow an increase in the
number of available hands, it is hard to see
how relief will come. Other regions and oth
er vocations face similar perplexities. It is
of the utmost importance, therefore, that
foreign workers of a dependable character be
admitted in as large a number and for as
long a period as the country’s economic
needs and political interests will warrant.
INVALID ANIMALS
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK, May 22.—T0 the
person who is fond of domes
tic animals, one of the most
interesting places in New
York is the hospital and clinic of
the New York Women’s League for
Animals, down on Lafayette street.
This institution is run by the same
methods as hospitals for human be
ings, even to the operation of a huge,
brilliant red ambulance, which brings
in several injured patients, mostly
horses, every day.
New York probably has more do
mestic animals in proportion to its
population than any other city in the
United States; and certainly no oth
er city is a more hostile environ
me'-- them. Go for a walk in
any section of Manhattan in the eve
ning, and you find whole battalions
of people, gently leading their pre
cious toy dogs. Stay home and at
tempt to sleep, and you are kept
awake by the raucous voices of many
cats in the ckyard. The horse is
still a conspicuous factor in the city’s
delivery service, despite the increas
ing use of motor trucks.
That the crowded conditions of the
city are hard on the health of do
mestic animals is shown by the work
of this hospital, which treated ap
proximately 10,009 animals during
the past year. In addition to this,
about 14,vu0 animals, received at the
shelters established by the league in
two city parks, had to be humanely
put to death.
Dogs Suffer Most
Most of the animals treated at the
hospital are dogs. Skin diseases and
intestinal disorders, which are al
most entirely the result of unwhole
some city life, are the chief causes
ot invalidism in dogs, while a large
number are brought in with dis
temper. Ruptured eyes are also com
mon, and fractured limbs, usually the
result of automobile accidents, are
everyday occurrences.
One such victim was brought ten
derly into the clinic by two little
boys while the reporter was visit
ino the hospital the other day. The
clinic, by the way, resembles most
hospital clinics, with immaculate
white walls and furniture, a case
containing dangerous-looking surgp
cal instruments, and a glass-covered
table for the examination of the pa
tients. The little boys carefully lift
ed their dog, a rather poor specimen
of fox terrier, up on the table, and
gazed anxiously at the white-gar
.nented veterinary.
“Do you think he’ll live?” asked
the smaller one, his lip quivering.
The veterinary did not answer, but
began making an examination of the
dog, after muzzling its mouth with
a gauze bandage.
“Got a fractured leg,’’ he said at
length, “and his back is probably
hurt . . . can’t tell just yet
. . . here you boys hold him like
this while I fix his leg.”
With one of the boys holding the
dog’s neck, the other his uninjured
hind leg, and the young lady from
the front office grasping him gently
but firmly across the ribs, the vet
erinary proceeded to bandage the in
jured leg with splints.
“Now,” he said, turning to the
boys, “you’d better leave him here for
a few days. He may have an inter
nal hemorrhage, and if so you’ll lose
him. If he doesn’t, he ought to get
along all right.”
A Cat With a Cold
xhe next case, brought for exami
nation in a large valise, was a big
maltese cat, with a U.<l case of laryn
gitis. The owner, a middle-aged,
kindly-faced woman, was very much
worried because the cat had not bee,:
eating as mUch as usual.
"Yo,u probably feed the cat too
much,- said the doctor, after jnaking
an examination. “It would be much
healthier if it were not so fat. What
do you feed it?”
“Meat and fish and bread,” replied
the woman.
“Cut out the bread,” said the doc
tor, and gave her a box of pills to
be fed the cat at stated intervals.
“One of the chief causes of ill
health among city-bred animals,” de
clared the doctor, “is that they are
fed the wrong kind of food. Many
people think, for instance, that dogs
should be fed only a little meat,
whereas meat should be the principal
item of canine diet. A dog is es
sentially a carnivorous animal, and
does not thrive as a vegetarian. Pork,
of course, is out of the question
for dogs, but almost any other meat
will do. As a supplement to a strict
ly meat diet, dog biscuit is the next
best thing. A mixture of beef and
dog biscuit is what we feed the dogs
here at the hospital. A few fresh
vegetables, Such as carrots and spin
ach are all right occasionally, but
potatoes should never be fed to dogs
or to cats. Too starchy. And corn
is too hard to digest, although some
cats are very fond of fresh corn.”
Leaving the clinic, we went down
stairs and took a look at the re
ceiving station, where the ambulance
rolls in from the street with its
sick patients. One of these, a horse
with a bad case of colic, was in a
padded cell in one corner of the
room, this being necessary because
the intense suffering through colic
often causes horses to become vio
lent and to kick their stalls down.
A Horse Condemned to Die
Most of the patients, however, are
taken up to the second floor on an
elevator and thoroughly examined in
the operating room. Foot trouble
and nail puncture are the most com
mon complaints, while frequently in
these days of the high cost of feed,
cases of plain starvation are discov
ered. One interesting case which
came to the hospital not long ago
•was that of a big gray horse nearly
thirty years old, without a blemish
and still in serviceable condition.
His owner had worked him for more
than twenty years and then retired
him to a life of ease, in favor of a
motor truck. But the prevailing
high prices necessitated retrench
ments in the man’s expenses. Un
willing to commmit the horse to the
uncertainties of a sale, he brought
him to the league to be humanely de
stroyed.
In the cellar underneath the hos
pital is the death room, where home
less and hopelessly diseased animals
are brought and mercifully put to
death by electrocution. This is such
a quick and painless method, accord
ing to the secretary, that “you can
not even hear the animal whimper.
There is only a thud, and then it is
all over.”
Before electrocuting a homeless
animal, the league first endeavors
to secure for it a home. About fifty
dogs were placed in country homes
by officers of the league during the
past year. One of these was a little
bull terrier which had spent the two
years of its unhappy life in a cel
lar. The owner, for some reason,
refused to release it to the confines
of the backyard, so the league bought
the dog and placed it in an excel
lent home, where it has a wide lawn
to romp over and many cats to chase,
far out on Long Island.
In addition to the impressive ust
of prominent philanthropists who
support the free relief to animals
administered by the league, many
dogs and cats and horses contribute
to the welfare of their species. Their
contributions are collected through
a dog’s, a cat’s and a horse’s brigade,
whose membership dues are a dollar
a year. Thousands of animals are
now enrolled in these brigades, and
many of them, belonging to wealthy
families, contribute much more than
their membership dues to the sub
scription boxes of the league.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Muriel, aged four, was taken by her
governess to have her tea with an
aunt. Presently she began to eat a
piece of very rich cake.
“Oh, I just love, this chocolate
cake!” she exclaimed. “It’s awfully
nice.”
“Muriel, dear,” corrected her gov
erness, "it is wrong to say you ‘love’
cake, and I’ve frequently pointed out
that ‘just’ is wrongly used in such a
sentence. Again ‘awfully’ is quite
wrong. Now, repeat your remark,
please.”
Muriel obediently repeated:
“I like chocolate cake; it is very
good.”
"That’s better, dear,” said the gov
erness, approvingly.
“But it sounds as if I was talking
about bread.” protested the little girl.
Father —That young roller comes
here too often; I want it stopped.
Daughter—l’m sure, father, 1 do
all I can to discourage his visits.
Father —Nonsense! I haven't heard
you sing for him once.—Boston
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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920.
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V y do have to earn our own '
bread and butter and
jam," said a young woman the oth
er day, “and that is that we have
practically cornered the matrimonial
market, and get the first option on
most of the good things in the
marrying line.
“And let me tell you that is no
small thing in these days when
men are scarce, and shy at the al
tar anyway, and when husbands
have passed into the luxury class.
“You may suppose that the rich
girl who has nothing to do but
doll herself up, and look pretty,
and sit on the family pedestal would
have the best chance to marry. Far
from it. Cinderella the Typewriter
Queen, has got the Fairy Princess
left at the Old Maids’ home when
it comes to husband snaring. And
not only can the working girl mar
ry oftener and quicker than the
rich girl, she can marry better.
“As a matter of fact no other
girl has such a poor chance of
making a really good match as the
wealthy society girl. She is handi
capped by her money, for men of
honor, and independence and pride
fight shy of her because, for one
thing, they cannot bear to put them
selves into the position of a hanger
on and pensioner of their wives.
“Then the kind of men who are
going to be the famous professional
men and the big business men of
twenty years hence are not hang
ing around drawing rooms, and
yachting and poloing just now. They
are grubbing away in offices, and
wearing cheap clothes and counting
pennies, and the rich girl never has
any more chance of meeting them
than she has of being introduced
to the Nawab of Jepore.
“That leaves the matrimonial field
pretty much to the Papa’s Son boys,
who are not much, and the rich
wife hunters, who are not many.
Perhaps it is because the million
airesses’ choice is so limited in hus
bands, that very rich girls so often
give up trying to find a man and
marry a title.
“On the other hand, the poor girl
who works for her living, works
shoulder to shoulder -with the com
ing men. She knows which ones
have ability, and energy, and ini
tiative, and which have in them
that mysterious something that
takes a man out of the ranks and
sets him at the head. That’s what
I mean by saying she has the first
chance at all the good things.
“As to her ability to marry be
ing greater than the rich girl’s,
that is obvious. What’s the good
of fishing in a stream where there
are no fish?
“The working girl is where the
fishing is fine. The rich girl is sit
ting high and dry in a parlor chair,
without a minnow being in five miles
of her. All she can do is to cut
bait, and pray for a miracle to hap
pen that will send some poor fish
her way. Which doesn’t always hap
pen, there being discouraging times
for the supernatural to occur.
"Now every woman knows there
are two difficulties in getting a
husband. The first is to find your
man. The business girl does this
by the simple expedient of prose
cuting her search where men con
jugate. She is where she sees scores
of men every day, where she comes
in contact with them in her work,
and where she gets to know them,
and they get to know her. Tn this
way she establishes a cordial ac
quaintance with men who are too
busy or too bashful to ever call upon
a dressed up society girl with whom
they would have to be formal and
on their p’s and q’s.
“Why. I know a dozen women
who are now riding around in their
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
An open letter has been sent to .
David L. Walsh, of Massachusetts,
by J. D. A. Morrow, vice president '
of the National Coal association, !
replying to the senator’s speech In
the senate of recent date, in which I
Senator Walsh alluded to what he
characterized as “excessive profits”
of the bituminous coal operators
during the war. Mr. Morrow denies
the charge of profiteering and quotes
from official government statistics
to show that Mr. MacAdoo's report,
which the senator quoted, only cov
ers about 6 per cent of the entire
number of operators.
It only includes, says Mr. Mor
row, the “fortunate 392” of a total
of 7,000 separate coal producers.
“It says nothing of the other 94
per cent," the letter says, “some
6,600 operators who admittedly made
less than 15 per cent.
“Further, with regard to alleged
huge profits in 1917, the United
States Geological survey report on
coal production for 1917 shows that
the total output of bituminous coal
in 1917 was sold by the operators
at an average price of only $2.26
per ton at the mines, out of which
all operating expenses, fixed charges
and taxes had to be paid before any
profit
In the midst of public cheers at
falling prices in nearly every sec
tion of the country, the Depart
ment of Labor issued official fig
ures to show that the cost of liv
ing •took a jump in the month from
March 15 to April 15, and on the
latter date was at the highest point
ever recorded —and going up.
The cost of twenty-two of the
principal food articles increased an
average of 5 per cent during the
month* in fifty-one cities. The in
crease. was the largest in any single
month since the United States en
tered the war and consequently for
all time so far as history records.
The cost of living was 5 per cent,
higher on April 15 than the previous
high peak January 20.
Prices in April this year, ac
cording to the labor department fig
ures, were 16 per cent higher than
in April a year ago. and 116 per
cent higher than in April, 1913. Po
tatoes advanced 34 per cent, sugar
8 per cent. Milk. eggs, lard, navy
beans and prunes declined.
Hides are stored in California
warehouses “by thousands.” and are
selling at decidedly lower prices than
in 1919, according to an announce
ment made public by Mrs. Edward F.
Scanlon, president of local branch of
the State House Wives’ league, which
organization has been investigating
the leather industry in an effort to
discover why shoe prices are high.
“Members of the league, delegated
to make this investigation have made
a personal canvass of the leather of
the fSan Francisco) Bay district, and
the findings are Startling.” Mrs. Scan
lon said “The finest grades of hides
which brought 70 cents a pound in
1919 are selling today for 40 cents.
We have made a careful study of
the different elements that make up
the retail price of shoes. We find
that the labor cost of a pair of shoes
never exceeds $1.80.”
The privilege of wearing army uni
forms and use of military titles, ac
corded during the war to officials of
c- Stable and social organizations,
was withdrawn at Washington by the
war department.
Secretary Baker in a letter to the
American Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.. Y.
cilW. C. A.. National Catholic War
Council. Jewish Welfare board. Sal
vation army and American Library
association, .asked that use of the uni
forms and titles be discontinued. He
expressed appreciation of the work,
of the organizations during the war.
The marriage of Miss Priscilla
Alden Thorp, a randdaughter of the
late Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
to Arthur Calvert Smith of New
York citv took place recently at the
home of the bride’s parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Gilbert Thorp, 115
Brattle street, Cambridge, Mass.
The bride was graduated from Rad
cliffe in 1919. Mr. Thorp. who
served as a captain of infantry over
seas, was graduated from Harvard
in 1914. The ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. Samuel M
Crothers of the First Parish in
Cambridge. Miss Margaret W.
Thayer, of Cambridge, was maid of
honor. Mr. Edward Hunting Smith
of New Haven, Con., brother of
the bridegroojn, was best man.
own limousines, and with money to
burn, who are married to just
that type of man—splendid fellows,
with hearts of gold, but so shy they
would never have summoned up
courage enough to pop the question
to any woman, if they hadn’t work
ed wuh her and gotten to know her
that way.
“The second difficulty of catcii
ing a Husband is getting near enough
to him to cast your lasso without
scaring him off. Let a. man
that a woman is camping on his
trail, and he beats it to the tell
timber. That’s where managing
mothers, who gush over men and
tell them how sweet and amiable
Marie is and how domestic Susan
is, fall down. The stupidest man
sees her fell designs upon him and
sidesteps them.
“But business furnishes a giri
with a perfect alibi for always be
ing about, and it also
any intentions she may have u;w»-
a man’s single blessedness. He is
suspicious of the society girl who
must marry for a meal ticket, s.r.d
afraid to trust himself in her vi
cinity.
"He’s off his guard. however,
where the business girl is concern
ed. She’s got a perfectly good job,
and shows herself capable of hold
ing it down, and doesn’t have to
get some man to pay her bills. So
he feels safe with her. and for
gets that no vamp on earth has
any such magic to conjure with as
propinquity, and that no other spell
is so potent to draw two people
together as a vital interest _in the
same thing. •
“Os course no man ever expects
to fall in love with the woman with
whom he worked. Oh, dear no. If he
expressed himself on the subject be
forehand he would probably say the
business girl isn’t his type. He
prefers something more feminine
more—eh—clinging, and domestic,
vou know. He isn’t looking for a
first-class stenographer, or a crack
erjack secretary, or buyer, or sales
woman for a wife but for a home
maker.
“Quite so. And strong in the be
lief that the business woman has
no attraction for him outside of her
efficiency as a worker, he treats her
as a good comrade, one who always
understands a fellow, and who inva
riably says the right thing—the
soothing word when he’s irritable
and his nerves are on edge, the en
couraging word when his courage
falters; the comprehending, pitying
word when things go wrong: the
exultant word of praise when he
pulls off something good.
“And she’s so capable. And so en
thusiastic. And so Interested In all
he is doing. Talking to her is like
talking to his best man pal—only
a fellow can say things to a wom
an he can never say to a man. Per
sonal things.
“Somehow this girl who knows
him so well, and who knows and
is interested in the things he cares
most for makes all other girls seem
pretty poor company.
“Then it comes over him some
day what it would mean if he should
lose the companionship that has
come to mean so much to him—-
and if the girl feels the same way
about it; it’s all over but sending
out the wedding announcement. And
the marriage is nearly' always a
happy one because the couple knew
each other’s peculiarities and angu
larities of disposition before marri
age instead of finding them out
afterwards.
“Oh, it’s no trouble for a business
girl to get married. That’s why so
many girls who don’t need to go
to work are hunting jobs—and hus
bands.”
Dorothy Dix articles will appear
In this paper every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
Word received here from St. Louis
states that in a signed confession,
Dick Smythe, chum of Horace Wal
ton, who was killed after robbing an
Illinois Central train of $105,000 near
Chicago last Saturday, said that he
had been engaged by Walton as "bus
iness agent,” and knew of the plans
for the robbery, federal officials an
nounced.
Srjythe’s duties, according to the
confession, were to assist Walton in
the disposal of bonds and other loot
obtained in his robberies. No salary
was stipulated, but Smythe was told
that he would be paid liberally.
Walton had Smythe look up rail
road time cards for him and attend
to other preliminaries. Smythe is
nineteen years old. Walton was
twenty-two.
According to advices received at
Washington, Dr. Rritsjof Nansen,
Norwegian explorer, probably will
head the organization to be set up by
the League of Nations for the pur
pose of repatriating 200,000 German,
Austrian and other war prisoners
still held in Russia.
Reports to be submitted to the
league council at Rome this month
say that unless these jnen are res
cued from their prison camps In Si
beria before next winter few are
likely to survive. They have been In
captivity for five years.
Dr. Nansen was mentioned during
discussions at Paris last year of
steps toward sending food relief to
the captives. Word has reached
Washington that he already has been
asked if he would be willing to serve
as the agent of the league in at
tempting the repatriation.
He had considerable' experience
with food questions during the war,
having headed the Norwegian mis
sion sent to the United States in
1917 to negotiate for needed supplies
for his own country.
Word has come to us from Dublin
that Countess Georgia Markievicz,
Sinn Fein member of Parliament,
whose whereabouts has long been a
mystery, made a theatrical reappear
ance, clad in a commandants uniform
recently at an open air meeting in
Croker Park in memory of the mem
bers of the Irish Republican Parlia
ment who were executed after or
killed during the rebellion of 1916.
The countess delivered an address,
in which she appealed for suport for
Irish industries. On March 12 the
police raided the residence of Mrs.
Demann de Valera, wife of the Sinn
Fein leader, in search of the coun
tess.
The police barracks in Gormans
town, a village of County Meath,
near Balbriggan, were attacked and
burned Sunday morning.
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