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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
The Farreaching Import of the
IF a ter Paw er Bill.
PASSED in the glare of the oncoming
political conventions, the national
water-power bill has aroused scant
comment. But it is far and away the most
notable achievement of the present Con
gress; as David Lawrence remarks,
“long after the excitement over the Presi
dential campaign has died away, this meas
ure will be developing new communities
and building new cities in the valleys of
the country, more water will be available
for irrigation and arid lands will be yield
ing crops.”
For ten years bills looking to the utili
zation of the power latent in American
streams have been in controversy. That a
vast deal of wealth was going to waste
and public interests suffering in conse
quence, was commonly agreed. But differ
ences over the terms upon which these
resources should be unlocked to individual
initiative appeared irreconcilable. There were
conservationists who seemed to forget that
capital would never enter this field of de
velopment unless given opportunity for fair
and dependable profits. There were Gov
ernment ownership theorists who objected
’to turning the task over to private enter
prise. There were monopolisms who, if they
could, would have left the public’s rights
altogether out of account. At last, however,
common sense and common patriotism have
evolved a measure which js generally ac
ceptable. It provides that a commission
composed of the Secretary of *War, the Sec
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture, shall decide what water-power
sites may be developed, whether the con
struction of dams will interfere with the
river’s, navigability or otherwise react
against the common interests, and what
the companies shall pay the Federal treas
ury. After a period of fifty years the
private companies will be bound to relin
quish their grants and developments if the
Government then wants the property;
though in that event, of course, they will
be compensated for their investment.
It is predicted that as a result of this
encouraging and at the same time safe
guarding legislation there will be launched
within the next few years numerous enter
prises of farreaching industrial and agri
cultural import. The earliest development
probably will come in those regions of the
West where manufacturing interests have
lagged for want of convenient supplies of
coal and where farming has had to wait
upon irrigation. But in due time the en
tire country will feel the stimulus. Partic
ularly rich are the water-power resources
. of the South, whose latent “white coal” is
capable of driving a whole empire’s ma
chinery. In this section, moreover, the de
velopment of power and of navigation will
frequently go hand in hand, so that a dou
ble blessing will ensue. It has been repeat
edly pointed out, for instance, that construc
tion of the locks and dams and other im
provements necessary to utilize the Chat
tahoochee’s now dissipated power would vir
tually suffice to make he river navigable
from Atlanta to Columbus, or at least would
carry preparation to that end so far that it
could be completed with little expense and
delay. It is to be expected, therefore, that
Georgia and neighboring States will share
richly in the common country’s benefits
from the new conservatin bill and that new
realms of industrial and commercial pros
perity will be opened to them.
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City Folks Should Help.
REMINDING the planters of this spa
cious Commonwealth, where a new
crop can be raised for three seasons
of the twelvemonth, that especially rich
rewards await the production of foodstuffs
and that accordingly they should exert
their utmost energies to that end, the Co
lumbus Ledger adds:
‘‘Meantime the business man ought
to cooperate with the farmer in ef
forts to relieve as far as possible the
labor shortage situation. There are
many ways in which town and city
dwellers can help, and there should be
no hesitancy. Conditions '- and that
everyone aid in raising food.”
The Ledger here touches a most vital
spot of the production Self inter
est and humane regard alike urge the
farmer to bring forth the greatest harvests
of food that industry and skill can win
x.’om a fertile soil. But at the outset he
is handicapped as never before by lack of
help, and will continue so unless others
cooperate to furnish relief. Machinery can
do much to offset a labor shortage, and
a few years hence the tractor and other
useful contrivances will doubtless have re
duced to a remarkable extent the number
of hands required for planting, cultivating
and harvesting. But at this juncture ma
chinery Itself is difficult to procure, so
extensive is the demand for it. What the
farmer needs is prompt help for the emer
gency weeks of this truly critical year.
That urban interests and organizations
can materially aid is shown by the expe
rience of Western communities, where in
the most pressing seasons of farm work
lown and city folk have dropped every
thing to help their rural neighbors. In
Georgia and the South there should be at
least an organized effort on the part of
commercial and civic bodies to render time
ly service.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
His Revised Fiew of the South
THE editor of the Putnam Patriot, which
ie published in Putnam County, Conn.,
recently has returned from a tour of
the South that was to him an eye-opener. He
writes: “Years ago, during the days when
the South was still under the torpor produced
by the Civil War, when the atmosphere cre
ated by George W. Cable, Thomas Nelson
Page and Hopkinson Smith was yet a truth,
some merry drummer coined a famous par
ody on “Dixie.” It ran something like this:
“ ‘Away down South in the land of cot
ton,
“ ‘Bum hotels and. business rotten—
etc.’ ”
The jingle sprang into Instant popularity
because it was so brimful of truth, accord
ing to the Putnam Patriot’s editor, and this
picture of the South lingers in the mind of
many a Northerner.
But the Connecticut scribe now laments
that the author of the quoted parody cannot
be resurrected and taken “a-marching
through the South in 1920.” As he sees it,
“one conclusive fact that a single voyage of
vision demonstrated clearly was that the
New South —and it is as times painfully new
as contrasted with the old—is very rapidly
forging ahead of the Old North in many di
rections and that we of New England, in
our century-old complacence, are losing many
.....j Ox progress which the Southerner of
the second generation since the War has
gained and benefited by in a single decade
of commercial and industrial revival.”
“Bum hotels” and “rotten business” are
as much of a memory today in the South as
is the Ku Klux Klan, according to the ob
servant New Englander. The “colonade
fronted and rocking-chair veranda” type cl
hotels that formerly sheltered the traveler,
has been replaced by hostelries, modern in
every detail and affording unsurpassed serv
ice. The narrow trails through the red clay
hills and sand beds that formerly served an
inconsiderable traffic have given way to
good roads that “carry the wheels of a per
centage of automobiles that is astonishing.”
“The South has learned, too, a fact which we
are rapidly forgetting in our Northern cit
ies,” remarks the Putnam Patriot. “That is
the necessity for the high maintenance of
public works. Those who remember the
grass grown streets of the old South can but
be astounded at the miles of excellent pave
ment that have been built and are being
splendidly maintained in the principal South
ern cities. Above all, the South appreciates
fully the value of municipal cleanliness and
order. These are lessons which we in the
solidarity of our years of comfortable prog
ress are prone to forget. The South has
changed. It is advancing by leaps and
bounds. It is losing the old atmosphere of
the novelist and cavalier. It is, however,
developing an American quality which hai
its basis on all the tradition of the past.”
The editor of the Putnam Patriot is right.
The South has changed, though her devotion
to the “brave days of old” is deathless. No
section of the country has shown greater de
velopment or more real progress in the last
two decades. The comme/cial and indus
trial awakening has been general, and the
spirit of civic pride manifest on every hand.
Black Coal and White Coal.
IT will be seven thousand years, savants
say, before America’s coal supply, at
the present rate of consumption, is ex
hausted —an assurance which the
Birmingham Age-Herald to remark that
while it is gratifying to learn that we are
in no imminent danger of a fuel famine, “the
prospect of seven thousand years of coal
strikes is appalling.”
Abundance of riches yields scant comfort
if we are blocked from using them. Billions
of tons of coal will not warm one’s little fin
ger on a freezing December night, unless
the miner has done his part betimes and
freight trains have run in season. It is to
be hoped that ere a thousand years have
lapsed we shall have evolved a more sensi
ble method of settling industrial differences
than that of punishing the innocent public
as well as both parties to the controversy
while adjustments .are being sought. Mean
while, the losses and perils are enormous
when the supply of a commodity on which
depends production and distribution and sub
sistence itself, is cut off. In recent winters
we have felt the pinch of such a situation
and have had inkling into how calamitous
it would be if prolonged.
But there is one class of communities that
can regard mining troubles and coal famines
with little or no anxiety. We mean those
whose wheels are turned and industries fed
by water power. Not only are they independ
ent, but their skies are dean and their pros
perity over-brimming. “White coal” is to
be America’s great power-provider in the
years ahead, and it will be an important prob-
as well.
The Unsung Candidate.
THERE are more aspirants for the
Presidency of the United States than
Horatio dreams of in his political
philosophy. Out in Michigan the Honorable
W. G. Simpson rings the welkin with the
lusty art of one who sought the nomina
tion four summers ago and who probably
will be seeking it four summers hence if,
as his more cautious clansmen now appre
hend, he fails meanwhile to win the White
House. Out in Illinois, the Honorable Wil
liam Grant Webster (whether a descendant
of the warrior or the statesman whose name
he honors, the record saith not) is discuss
ing the development of his second cam
paign for the nation’s Chief Magistracy.
Mayhap a fickle public has forgotten that
he was ever before in the lists; and pos
sibly there are benighted citizens' who do
not know even now that he purposes to be'
their next President. But was not the vul
gus populi always slow in detecting unla
beled genius?
East as well as West hope springs eter
nal in the born candidate’s bosom. Consider
the Honorable Samuel Harden Church, an as
pirant of whom the New York Evening Post
tells us: “Mr. Church has the support of
the Cameron (Mo.) Sun and the Kingston
(Mo.) Mercury. He had a striking recep
tion recently in the Brekinridge (Mo.) op
era house, and photographs are §xtant of
the log cabin in which he was born. He is
now a Pennsylvanian, and the fact that
political observers think the . Knox boom
will come to nothing is doubtless connected
with Mr. Church’s appearance in the con
test.”
May they never wax sophisticated, these
hitchers of their wagons to the stars, who,
after all, are the most delightful and the
least harmful of the political species.
As long as the philosophers have racked
their, brains for an adequate theory of
laughter none of them, from Aristotle to
Bergson, has hit the matter off so happily
as the Columbia Record sage who dryly
remarks: “Man ie the only animal that
laughs, but looking at some men it’s hard
to understand how some of the other an
imals can keep from laughing.”
LEARN BY DISCUSSION
By H. Addington Bruce
MANY; many centuries ago a very wise
Greek taught that men should daily
exercise their minds in discussing
with other men subjects concerning which
various beliefs werfe possible.
It was his theory that by such discussion
not only would argumentative skill increase,
but there would be a general gain in knowl
edge, question and answer in the discussion
serving to separate truth from error and to
bring out the facts not previously taken into
account. The soundness of this theory he
demonstrated by practice with groups of
friends and pupils.
So that it may truly be said this wise
Greek gave to the world one of the best of
educational methods. But the world has
failed to utilize it as it might and should.
Especially in these latter times has educa
tion by discussion fallen into disuse.
To some extent it is practiced in coliegee
and universities, though as a rule professors
prefer to harangue their students by the lec
ture method. And in sundry public and semi
public gatherings discussion is an interest
ing and helpful feature.
But how seldom do men when they meet
in private life really discuss anything.
In the main they are content to exchange
idle gossip, to pass news of no particular im
portance from one to another, banter and
jest.
Or, if they do touch on subjects of some
significance, they usually approach these with
prejudiced minds. They have biased atti
tudes, preconceived ideas, that make clarify
ing discussion impossible.
They may be willing enough to impose
their ideas on They are not equally
willing to receive corrective or modifying
ideas.
So that at the end of what they may per
haps call a discussion they part with their
vision unexpanded, their minds exercised a
little, if at all.
Happily, this is not true of all men. There
are not a few sincerely anxious to profit from
discussion and willing and able to scrutinize
themes of discussion from different points
of view without making snap judgments or
losing their tempers.
It is among these that one must range
one’s self if really seeking self-improvement.
And, overcoming one’s own prejudices and
opening one’s own mind, it is surprising how
much may be learned from discussion even
with the violently dogmatic.
More than this, the example of patient
habitual open-mindedness is sure to affect
the dogmatic for good in some degree, bo
that, little by little, education by discussion
will ’ become more and more prevalent and
more generally beneficial.
Which is a consummation devoutly to be
wished, most of all in these days of thorny
social, economic and political issues, days
wt(en the survival of civilization itself may
be said to be in the balance.
(Copyrigt, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
SHALL AMERICA BE THE
GREAT PROFITEER STATE?
By Dr. Frank Crane
The supreme effort of enlightened states
manship should be to apply the ethics of the
individual to the nation.
The eternal war is of the world sou
against Machiavelli, the gist of whose teach
ing is that while the individual is bound by
conscience the State is bound solely by self
interest. That theory found its perfect
flower in Germany and brought on the war.
It is not yet dead. It animates a large
group of American politicians today, who re
pudiate our position during the war, that
America had a duty toward humanity, and
insist that America’s sole duty is toward her
self. . .
Secretary of State Colby, in a recent ad
dress at a banquet in New York, preached a
sound gospel. He defined Americanism in
the only way that can prevent it from be
coming as bad a stink in the nostrils of the
world as Germanism.
He emphasized the selfishness of isolation
in prosperity. The policy of looking out for
Number One and letting the rest of the world
go to the devil, is not only immoral, but
short-sighted. The profounder truth is that
whatever is immoral is bad policy.
The wicked greed of profiteer Nations
slays them as surely as the gluttony and ego
tism of the individual slay him.
“The world,” he said, “is really at the
brink not of a great disaster, but of utter dis
aster. Let us not be profiteers upon our
geographical position.
“Possession implies stewardship. Power
implies responsibility and there rests upon
this great and powerful republic, blessed
above all lands, fortunate beyond the dreams
of the men who founded this country, there
rests upon it a reciprocal duty to the world,
a duty that we should undertake happily,
soberly, responsibly, to administer our
wealth, to apportion our power in great
works of modest succor and relief to those
who are less fortunate.
“Let us give of our political power, of our
political experience, of our commercial
strength, of our pecuniary power, to the suc
cor and relief of this sorely afflicted world.
It is not only our duty us human beings, but
it is the only enlightened policy.”
What Mr. Colby said, in this speech made
upon an occasion to stimulate private charity,
ought to be said not only in every pulpit of
the land, but also should be said in the po
litical hustings, in our national legislative
bodies and from the chair of the President.
This is the real, underlying political issue:
Shall America be great according to Machia
velli, or according to the best known ethics
of the individual applied to the State?
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
The King of Self Conceit.
THERE is no surprise in the report that
the former Kaiser counts confidently
upon being restored to power and
glory. To shake so leviathan an egotism as
his requires more than the engulfment and
disgrace so a world war.
But one scarcely can Imagine the Ger
man people or even the Prussian mili
tarists countenancing a suggestion of Wil
helm Hohenzollern’s return. The court cir
cle must have found him insufferably bor
ing in the days of his pomp, and the pro
letariat now would find him a sorry show.
For the sake of romance, it is a pity
th iscast-out sabre-rattler has none of the
stuff of heroism. He might at least have
furnished the novelists with plot material.
But, alas, he is a most uninteresting vil
lain, and little in all things but self
conceit.
“Gimme a hamburg steak, gimme a ham
burg steak, gimme a hamburg steak,” ex
claimed an excited young man at a lunch
counter.
“What’s the matter, young feller? Shell
shock?” inquired the waiter.
“Shellshock, nothing. I used to be a
j company clerk and always made out our
I reauisitions in triplicate.’*
Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
HIW sayest thou, my daughter?
Is the way of a bachelor ail
roses and kisses and con
quests?
Nay, verily! For, as surely as a
wedding followeth a Reno divorce,
so surely will the day come, when
damsels shall say of him, “He is
well-preserved!”
And while he scorneth to choose a
wife, saying, “There are always as
good fish in the sea, as ever were
caught!” peradventure he is letting
the bait grow stale. And the buds
of Babylon are not collecting an
tiques!
- Now, there dwelt two youths In
Babylon, And they were called
“Homely” and “Comely.” And the
, heart of a certain damsel was di
vided between them.
But I counseled her, saying, “Os
two lovers, choose thou the one that
proposeth! For a promise on the
lips is worth two in the eyes.”
Therefore, when Homely had pro
posed three times, and Comely had
broken three engagements, the dam
sel heeded my words, and married
Homely. And her friends breathed
freely and said, “Thank heaven!”
Yet, in the hours of dreams, she
could not forget the way in which
Comely’s hair curled about his fore
head. And when her husband track
ed mud In the house, she wept,
thinking herself a “blighted being."
For < woman must “suffer,” in or
der to be perfectly contented.
Now, it came to pass, after seven
years, that the woman returned to
the home of her youth. And there,
she came upon Comely.
But at sight of him she covered
her eyes, and turned away her head
in sorrow. For 10, he had gone the
way of all bachelors!
Yea, verily, Comely, the Heart
breaker, having no wife and no wor
ries and no responsibilities, had wax
ed fat, until h,e resembled a kewpie.
From high-living he had acquired a
bright ruddiness, and, one by one,
the hairs had departed from his head,
until his forehead was a shining
light.
And, behold, as time passed, the
damsels who had trembled at his ap
proach, began to titter at his coming.
And those who loved him became
fewer and fatter, and his flirtations
more expensive. For, it requireth
real orchids and real diamonds to
make a bald-spot fascinating.
But, Homely, the Married Man, be
ing overworked, had preserved his
figure, and was called “distinguish
ed looking.”
And his wife rejoiced in her heart,
saying:
“It is well, it is well! For a thing
of beauty is not a boy forever!
“And peradventure it Is better to
marry a man first and put the frills
on afterward than to wait for an
ideal and accept a remnant!”
And thereafter when Homely com
manded her, she said “Yes, dear."
And when he was grouchy she
smiled and comforted him.
And all the world marvelled at
her devotion!
For, behold, she had learned that
happiness, for a woman-, consisteth
not In marrying her “ideal," but in
idealizing that which she hath mar
ried.
Selah.
CURRENT EVENTS
In place of her coal mines destroy
ed by the Germans France is turning
for power to her water resources,
Maurice Casenave, chairman of the
French high commission to the Unit
ed States, informed the New York
section of the Societe de Chimie In
dustrielle. Great sucess had marked
the French effort to replace coal by
water power, Dr. Casenave said, and
added:
“The total water power available
in France is calculated at 13,000,-
100 horse power a year. Before the
war only about 700,000 horse power
actually was obtained from this
source. Before long we hope to
get 5,000,000 horse power. This
would mean that France would no
longer be tributary to any foreign
power.”
He said that his country was re
lying on cahals rather than rail
roads for transportation of potash,
due to the German destruction of
French lines of communication, and
said that exportation of potash to
this country, while not now great,
will increase gradually.
In introducing Joseph H. Choate,
general counsel of the Chemical
Foundation, Inc., Dr. Marston T.
Bogert, who presided, said that this
country will never be safe without
a synthetic dye industry, since chem
ical warfare, now so important a
branch of war, depends upon it.
“The chief argument against the
bill now pending in congres is to
protect the American dye Industry
is that Germany is down and out
and must be helped to her feet,” he
said. “That lie is fostered by ev
ery German with the interests of
his country at heart.”
According to information received
for Constantinople the Armenian
patriarch has received a letter from
Adana saying that the Armenians
there held a meeting • May 2 at
which protest was made against the
alleged failure of the French to
supply adequate protection for the
Christians in Cilicia.
Word reaches us from Tokio which
states that a feature of the financial
depression in Japan is the increase
of dishonored bills in the Tokio
clearing house, reports showing that
those dishonored in April amounted
to 178,000 against 68,000 in March.,
May figures show a daily increase
over those of April. Th<? number
of bills dishonored in Osaka is three
times that in Tokio.
Under the caption, “Who Lost the
War,” the Berlin Vorwarts publishes
two documents signed by Field Mar
shal von Hindenburg and General
Ludendorff, former quartermaster
general, dated October, 1918, asking
the German government to make
peace immediately. Ludendorff’s re
quest was dated Oct. 1 and that of
von Hindenburg Oct. 3.
“They say they were stabbed in
the back by the Socialists,” says the
Vorwarts, which then asks the ques
tion, “Who lost the war.”
The British Empire Steel corpora
poration, a recent merger of steel
and Shipping interests bapitalized at
$500,000,000, has been incorporated
under the laws of Nova Scotia, it
was announced. Its registered of
fice will be at Sydney, N. S.
Writing of accidents to persons
employed in industrial plants, Dr. C.
Widmer says in Therapie der Gegen
wart (Berlin), that the inbred ex
perience of countless ages enables
us to sidestep injury unconsciously,
and only when we focus our con
sciousness on the reaction to the oc
currence is injury liable to result.
Emperor Yoshihito, of Japan, suf
fered a physical and mental collapse
about April 1, according to “The
Honolulu Pacific Commercial Adver
tiser,” quoting a source unofficial
but considered authentic. The ad
vices said the emperor was suffer
ing from locomotor ataxia or a sim
ilar disease.
Plans for establishing a regency
have been discarded, the Adver
tiser’s informant said, • because it
would reveal the real condition of
his health.
A new and delicious edible vege
table for the American table, pre
pared in the same manner as aspa
ragus, according to the bureau of
pant industry of the United States
department of agriculture, is the ten
der sprout of the bamboo plant. Ne
buchadnezzar, jocularly asserts the
department, deserves no credit for
is grass-eating expoits as natives
in the Far East were eating grass in
the form of edible bamboo sprouts
long before the autocrat of Baby
lonian royalty hit upon the simple
rfiethod of reducing the high cost of
living.
“It probably is news to most
Americans to learn that there are
several bamboo plantations of un
doubted value already established in
Georgia and Louisiana,” says the
writer. “Bamboo, according to
scientists, is not a tree, but a giant
grass. It grows like asparagus, the
new plants forming from the origi
nal roots. The bamboo sprout shoots
up at the incredible rate of a foot
a day, and when mature has a stem
four inches in diameter and fifty feet
high. It requires no cultivation.
The grown timber has an infinite
number of industrial uses owing to
i the light composition of the wood
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
A YOUNG man asks me to giv-*
him a few tips on how
select a wife.
The best advice that I can
offer any youth contemplating matri
mony is to go off to some quiet spot
and have a heart-to-heaYt session
•with himself and honestly try to
find out wfiat manner of man he real
ly is, and what he aspires to be and
to do in the world.
With this data in hand it is easy
enough to pick out the right girl,
Instead of one who will keep a man
wondering to his dying day what
made him do it, and where the fool
killer was when he led the lady he
did to the altar.
‘‘Know thyself” is never such .
good slogan as when a man is choos
ing a ’ife partner, for the trouble
with most unhappy marriages is
merely that they are misfit mar
riages. The wife who drives one
man to drink would have lifted an
other into the Seventh Heaven of
connubial bliss. She who rasps the
nerves of one husband at every turn
woutd make a soothing and congen
ial tfbmpanion to another.
Atid these uncongenial marriages
are more the men’s fault than the
wdAen’s, for men do the picking and
choosing, and it is their poor judg
ment, and lack of knowledge of what
they need, and .what will suit them
in the wife line that keeps Reno < n
the map, and the divorce court busy.
Therefore, son, when you think
about marriage, don’t waste any time
worrying over the girl. Worry over
you: M!f a little. Consider your own
character, disposition, finances, am
bitions and prospects and let this
knowledge be a lamp to your feet
when you go a-wooing.
SujJDose, for instance, you are of
a nervous, irritable disposition, with
a temper that is hung upon a hair
trigger and liable to go off at any
moment. Can’t you see that matri
mony for you will be nothing but a
park and bloody battleground if you
marry some beautiful slender crea
ture with thin lip, and quivering
nostrils, and lovely auburn hair?
Whereas it will be one grand sweet
song if you have gumption enough to
pick out for a wife some plump,
placid maiden with oxlike eyes and
a nice, fat laugh.
Woman for woman, the two girls
may be equally models of all the
virtues, but the high-strung one will
keep you always up to concert pitch,
while the good nature of the other
will poultice your sore nerves and
soothe them, :nd her optimism will
be a perpetual tonic to you. With
one you will live scrappily. With
the other happily, for there is not
room but for one set of nerves, and
ore case of dyspepsia in any house.
Suppose when you look into your
own soul you admit to yourself that
while you are not in the least vain,
or egotistic, still you can not deny
that you are a man of most unusual
■intellect, and of a judgment as pro
found that it is entitled to respect
on every occasion.
Will you find happiness if you
marry some opinionated young per
son who is firmly convinced that she
is the latest incarnation of Mrs.
Solomon, and who considers that a
wife’s place in the home is to rule
the roost, and tell her husband iust
where he gets off—and stay off. I
trow not.
You know plenty of men who
wipe their feet on the door mat be
fore they dare to enter their own
domicile, and who jump every time
their wives speak to them. Can you
see yourself qualifying in the hen
pecked brigade, and following meek
ly in wife’s wake?
Then why not pass by the snappy
WASHINGTON, D. C., June I.—-A
bill to prevent lynching is now on
the house calendar. The bill may not
be considered before congress re
cesses, but eventually It stands a
good chance of becoming a law. For
the first time In our history, congress
seems really determined to have
lynching put in the same class with
murder and treated accordingly.
Eighty-five people werb hanged,
shot or burned at the stake in the
Civilized United States last year, and
this year similar atrocities are ac
cumulating. In the past thirty years
3,500 persons have died at the hands
of infuriated mobs, and not more
than a half dozen of the offenders
were ever fined or imprisoned.
When Chinese, Mexicans and other
foreigners know that they are in
danger of death by violence if they
offend the people of their neighbor
hood, it is no wonder that abroad,
America has a reputation of being a
land where life is beset with hazards.
Ever since the days'when Tory sym
pathizers were tarred and feathered
and then ordered to salute the Co
lonial colors, lynching has- been
named by foreigners as one of the
typical American sports, like bull
fighting in Spain. America, they say,
is a wild country. It makes a treaty
with another nation in which Its
people in America are promised the
same protection of law as the Ameri
cans have. But if those people come
to be disliked for their religion or
nationality, they are quite likely to
be seized by their neighbors and put
to death.
As one witness before the judiciary
committee of the house remarked:
“It is not surprising that Mexico
refuses to get excited over the fact
that a few Americans are killed tn
her revolutions. Was not a Mexican
subject hung by Americans in Cali
fornia and another in Texas in 1893?
Or to come down to recent times,
were not twenty-five Mexicans
lynched in one state in 1917, and
two more last year, and nothing was
done to bring the persons responsi
ble to justice?
This witness said that when in
Turkey he heard a Turk deliver a
lecture on America in which pic
tures of lynchings were used to show
that America is not a civilized na
tion.
Unfortunately, these accusations
that Americans lapse frequently into
a state of barbarity are fully sup
ported by facts. Since 1831 we have
paid out over SBOO,OOO to Mexico,
China and European countries for at
tacks on their subjects bj r American
mobs. The state department now has
before it unadjusted claims for deaths
of Italians, Austrians, Greeks and
Japanese.
The usual procedure is for the
Italian ambassador, for instance, to
call our attention to the fact that
three Italian workmen were hung
to tree in a certoin state. The state
department waits several months and
then expresses its sorrow and ex
plains that the United States gov
ernment leaves responsibility for
such affairs as lynchings i~ the
hands of the state governments. But
to show that the United States is
willing to do the right thinng, we
offer the Italian ambassador a thou-
and its long, tough fibers. It can be
used for barrel hoops, ladders, trel
lises, etc.
It is a valuable crop. In 1902 the
leading Japanese growers estimated
an annual profit of SSO an acre from
the sale of the edible sprouts and
grown timber. Present conditions
would warrant a much larger profit.
An acre of bamboo will produce
about 1,00 3 edible shoots each spring
and will continue the production for
forty of fifty years without being
renewed.
Whether a suit of clothes is an in
divisible unit, or whether it is sus
ceptible of being treated as a collec
tion of pants, coat and vest, and
these articles sold separately was
one problem which the commissioner
of taxation in Ottawa, Canada, was
called upon to settle in connection
with collection of Canada’s new lux
ury taxes. It was contended that
a $45 suit, now officially a luxury,
might be disposed of piecemeal, thus
evading a $lO tax. The commission
er decided, however, that the dealer
would have to collect the tax on the
total selling price.
CHOOSING A WIFE
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
A LAW AGAINST LYNCHING
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
girl who runs everybody ar.S. »*“-
erything in Her vicinity, and whea*
parents tremble before her, and es
pouse the timid little maiden who
believes all men are oracles, and
rule by divine right, and who will
be perfectly sitting at your
feet gathering up the pearls of wis
dom that drop from your lips. And
you will be happy, too, for one un
questioning admirer is as much as
any of us get in life.
Suppose you are a poor young fel
low with your fortune to make. To
achieve success means that you
must live plainly, and economize
while you are getting a start.
Do you think that you will stay
long in love with a fashion plate
girl, no matter how stunning she
looks, if she wastes your money,
and keeps you in debt, and thwarts
your ambitions? The argument over
money is a two-edged sword that
can cut the bond between a hus
band and wife quicker than anything
else on earth.
But if you marry a girl who is
willing to work and economize and
put every ounce of her own energy
and ambition in your career—who
thinks it fun to build your fortune
with you, then you have got a wife
for keeps, for she is business partner
as well. You will be happy and
contented with such a woman for
there is no stronger tie between two
people than to be vitally interested
in the same thing. Nor do any
husband end wife ever bore each
other when they can talk over the
state of the stock market or gro
cery trade together.
Suppose you have dreams of be
ing a great lawyer, or a famous
doctor, or of filling some big po
litical office.
Then look beyond the girl’s pretty
face, and try to see what is in her
head. The time will come when
your wife’s brains will mean more
than her complexion to you, for you
can camouflage a complexion but
there’s no known substitute for good,
hard horse sense.
Do you think it will help you on as
a lawyer to be tied to an ambition
less woman who weeps and thinks
herself neglected every time you
want to study of an evening instead
of holding her hand? Will it in
crease your practice as a doctor to
have a jealous fool for a wife who
imagines you are making love to your
female patients? Will it help you
to win elections to have a tactless
blunderer of a wife who mhkes ene
mies where she should make friends?
Rather not! So if you wish to
be happy and successful though mar
ried, choose the cleverest, and most
ambitious woman you know, no mat
ter if she is as homely as sin. in
preference to the peach who is con
tent to do nothing but just hang
on the tree.
I am saying nothing against the
woman without ambition, or the
nervous woman, or the high tem
pered woman, or the bossy woman.
There are men whom they would
just suit. There are easy going
men who don’t want a wife who Ls
not contented to stay put, just as
they are. There are men who- de
light in working themselves to
death so that their wives may be
gorgeously dressed. There are shift
less men who need a high tempered
woman to prod them along. There
are even men who like to be hen
pecked. It’s all a matter of taste.
I'm only urging you, son, to find
out in which class you belong before
you marry, and to pick out the girl
accordingly.
Dorothy Dix articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
sand dollars or so to console the
families of the dead.
Other provisions further secure
the safety of prisoners, notably one
which allows a prisoner to demand
a transfer from state to federal
jurisdiction if there is danger of an
attack on his person. Inability of
states to cope with lynching is na
tion-wide. Even where states have
their own laws against mob at
tacks, and even when lynchings are
announced several days beforehand,
sheriffs and governors stand aside
and declare themselves helpless.
This failure of the states is the
main reason whv'the federal govern
ment has at last concerned itself
with the lynching proposition.
The chief obstacle in the way of
congressional legislation is the pos
'sibility that a national anti-lynch
ing law might be found unconstitu
tional. The house judiciary commit
tee decided this question to its own
satisfaction before it reported the
bill favorably to be placed on the
calendar. Maintenance of order is
ordinarily regarded as a state mat
ter in Which congress is not author
ized to interfere. But the judiciary
committee points out that the four
teenth amendment to the constitu
tion, which provides equal protec
tion of the law for every one, also
provides that “congress shall have
■power to enforce by appropriate leg
islation the provisions of this ar
ticle.”
Laws similar to the anti-lynching
bill which have been declared con
stitutional were quoted by members
of tiie committee. Mention was also
made that, such authorities on con
stitutional law as ex-President Taft,
Attorney General Palmer, and
Charles Evans Hughes, former jus
tice of the United States supreme
court, have urged congress to take
federal action, and that evry presi
dent since Benjamin Harrison has
expressed himself strongly In favor
of a national anti-lynching law.
One side of the lynching evil
which is not touched in the proposed
law is of great consequence to the
nation. This i-i the effect of mob
outbreaks on the people who take
part. Respectable citizens are con
verted into screaming fanatics and
devise and carry out tortures which
in a normal state of mind they
would shudder to read about. Some
of the atrocities which have been
carried out are unprintable. Yet
spectators come from miles around
as to a picnic to view burnings and
hangings with the same curious de
tachment that they would watch a
cat with a mouse. There have been
many attempts to bring the people of
the country to an understanding of
the brutalizing effects of mob ac
tion. The recognized fact that the
community gets a bad name and
trade suffers has not cut down the
lynching figures. A federal law with
a determined government back of it
seems the only remedy.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
DE Goot> book tell
You T' Love Evy-BODY
BUT DEYS SOME FOLKS
WHUT JE$ Z NACH'LY AJNT
NO-BObY,
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