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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Boy Scouts for All Georgia
GEORGE, is fortunate to have been
cho'sen as the first State in the union
for the expansion of the Boy Scout
membership to include rural sections as well
as cities.
Plans to this er were laid at a recent At
lanta meeting of Scout leaders from Geor
gia, the Carolinas and Florida. It was de
cided to organic the State for Scouting by
Congressional districts, each of which shall
have a Scout council which in turn shall or
ganize committees, councils, Scoutmasters
and Scout troop., in every county and town
where the Scouts are not already repre
sented.
Georgia was chosen as the test State for
two reasons—first, because of its lack of
Scouts, and, second, because Georgia has
shown so much enterprise in overcoming that
lack. It is authoritatively stated that at
present there is only one Scout in Georgia to
every sixty-seven boys, the lowest percent
age in the Union. At the same time, Georgia
in the past year has outdistanced all other
states in Scout extension work with an in
crease of approximately three hundred per
cent. Many communities, including Atlanta,
Macon, Waycross, Savannah, Augusta, Val
dosta, Columbus, Athens and other centers,
have First Class Scout councils, and Scout
troops are flourishing in smaller cities.
While Scout expansion in Georgia will have
a three-fold motive —to include the rural boys,
to enroll as many young Georgians as possi
ble, thus paving the way for similar expan
sion programs in th<- other forty-seven states;
and to educate the State as a whole in the
principles and the value of Scouting—it is
the first of these which is the primary pur
pose of the movement and which promises
the most beneficial result.
Since its inception, the Boy Scout organiza
tion, naturally enough, has been confined in
the main to ne larger communities where it
•was easier to create organized interest and
where it was possible to assemble boys with
the least difficulty. Yet the rural youth cer
tainly should be given as much opportunity
to become a Scout a- his brother of the city.
In fact, statistics obtained from war enlist
ments, surprising though it may seem to
some, showed that of the two, as a rule, the
city lad was quicker to learn, healthier at
core and capable of greater endurance.
Since the Boy Scout movement was found
ed in America ten years ago, it has gripped
the country as perhaps no other system work
ed out for the benefit of youths. Only a
movement intrinsically sounu could have
done that, only a movement that appealed not
only to the best in a boy, but to the love of
ell lads for adventure, sport, woodcraft and
the outdoor life, -c is that rare combina
tion —education that uplifts even while it in
terests and enwraps the educated.
Scouting traces it~ origin to General S. S.
Baden-Powell, of the British army, to whom
the idea first came while he was one of the
leaders in the defense of Mafeking against
the Boers. In the troops under is command
were many lads whcm he discovered, to his
rueful astonishment, were so lacking in re
source and knowledge that they were help
less as children when placed in situations
where they were thrown absolutely on tneir
own responsibility. General Powell return
ed to England with a life mission ahead o 2
him. The result, after five years’ observa
tion and study of boys in all parts of the
world, was the Boy Scout organization, in
which boys were not only trained to be
strong, healthy and self-reliant, but to be
kind, to be generous, to be truthful, to be
every inch manly in the best sense of the
word.
Scouting swept over the world. Today
there are four million Boy Scouts scattered
through pactically every civilized country. In
the United States, under the pioneer leader
ship of such men as Gifford Pinchot, Theo
dore RooseveP Dan Beard and Ernest
Thompson-Seton. Scouting has spread to ev
ery State and includes more than half a mil
lion young Americans who, wherever they are,
stand as the recognized criterion for all that
Is best in boyhood.
To enroll every lad in Georgia in the Boy
Scouts is a goal that should enlist the sym
pathy and heartiest co-operation of all citi
zens, for on such a foundation the State can
build a future of e reatness such as she has
never known.
Twenty-Four Billion Dolles
IT cost the American people twentv-rour
billion ten million dollars, according to
the Treasury Department’s latest reck
oning. to bring a winning and world-menac
ing Prussianism to terms. Considerably
more than that sum was expense i during
the period from April 6, 191 i to June 30.
1920, which covers the extremes of the
Government’s war-time fiscal operations;
but the figures given represent what Secre
tary Houston calls “adjusted” expenditures
of the Treasury. excludin& Aii out’ays which
had no relations to the actual prosecution of
the war and also excluding foreign loans
■which will be repaid.
Huge as the bill is, it is none too great
a price for so important a victory, provid
ed the fruits of that victory are conserved
and its ideals upheld. We could well have
afforded to live lives of* severest self-denial
for generations to come if that had been
needful to keep Prussian militarism from
triumphing. But unless w? stand true to the
faith for which our soldiers and sailors
fought, unless we prove to be steadfast
friends of world justice and world peace, we
shall have paid all too dear tor the late war,
because we shall have cast away what was
worth fighting for.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
An Inviting Opportunity to
Hasten Southern Prosperity
IN his interesting address to the Tri-
State Credit Men’s Conference at Ma
con Mr. Joseph A. McCord, chairman of
the board of the Atlanta Federal Reserve
Bank, cogently presented the claims upon
Southern interest of the organizations being
formed under the Edge Act to facilitate for
eign sales of American products. “At this
particular moment,” he said, “these cor
porations mean more to the farmers of the
South than any other one thing, and I can
not urge too strongly the necessity of their
support. All classes of Southern business
men must get behind them and help them
to function properly, so that prosperity may
be insured for all times.”
Certainly the Federal International Bank
ing Company, which is the institution de
signed especially to promote the export trade
of Georgia and neighboring States, deserves
the support of “all classes” of this region’s
business interests, not simply that of bank
ers and certain groups of merchants. For
while the business of this company will
consist largely in financing cotton sales to
overseas markets, it will render like service
to other fields of production as well, notably
to those of lumber, of rice, and of manu
factured articles, and in one way or an
other will benefit eve’ry realm of our indus
try and trade.
If cotton exports alone were to be stimu
lated, still the company would merit hearty
support from the business as well as the
agricultural South. Whatever quickens and
expands the marketing of a region’s chief
money crop will make for general prosper
ity; and that is just what the Federal In
ternational Banking company will do. Had
it been operating at the outset of the pres
ent season, the misfortunes of cotton and
their ill effects upon business at large prob
ably would have been averted, or at least
greatly softened. For at the very time the
American market began to grow sluggish
and to decline, there was a demand in con
tinental Europe for millions of bales —a
latent demand, it is true, and without ef
fect upon actual conditions in this country,
but nevertheless representing a real want
and susceptible of being turned into a real
stimulus to trade. Lacking gold for cash pay
ment and lacking also proper credit accom
modations, the European countries in ques
tion could not buy our cotton, although they
needed vast quantities of it for their idle
mills and easily could have paid for it if
helped to get industrially upon their feet.
Now, as one of the purposes of the Fed
eral International Banking Company is to
provide credit facilities for just such cases,
the sooner it can be put into operation, the
better for the Southern farmer and for the
great of interests which are more
or less dependent upon his prosperity. In
deed, the common interests will be served
not by this company alone but by the sev
eral others being organized to expedite the
sale of American products which other coun
tries need but which they are narrowly re
stricted in purchasing because of a lack of
reasonable credit facilities. The Edge Act
was passed largely for the purpose cf en
abling American business to solve problems
and seize opportunities of this very nature.
Its valuable provisions should be turned to
prompt and practical account by Georgia
and the South.
If these aids to export commerce are es
tablished and if the eligible banks not yet
members of the Federal Reserve system
join it without further delay and thus in
crease their means of serving their cus
tomers and their communities, many an anx
ety that now beclouds the future will dis
lolve in mists of gold and the South's pros
pects will loom brighter with every dawn.
A Million for Forestry Will
Save Billions for the Nation
THE request of the Department of Agri-
culture for a million dollars to be
used in forestry work, in co-operation
with the States, in the coming year, appears
most moderate when we reflect that six
hundred times that sum is spent by lumber
consumers in the East as the annual freight
cost of shipping their supply from distant
regions. If the forests had been conserved
during the last fifty or hundred years a
transportation tax of half a billion dollars
would not now be pressing upon the public
and adding to the burdensome cost of build
ing materials.
This country’s center of lumber produc
tion, located first in New England, has
moved, by remarkably rapid stages, to the
Alleghanies, then to the Lake States, then to
the great pine forests of Dixie; and now, as
the exhaustion of the Southern supply draws
near, the axes are ringing and the giant saws
buzzing on the forests of the Pacific coast.
So it comes about that consumers are paying
not only six hundred millions a year in
freight rates, but also many times that
amount in the necessarily increased costs of
everything into which wood products enter,
from sills and plow handles to books and
fireside chairs. With three-fifths of the
country’s original timber gone and with the
remainder being consumed four times as fast
as it is growing, with the pineries of the
South Atlantic and Gulf regions dwindling
and the forests of the West also trending
toward depletion,- what will the nation do for
timber supplies a few decades hence if con
serving and restorative measures are not
taken promptly and on a far-reaching scale?
A million dollars wisely expended for this
purpose now will mean, in times not distant,
billions to American industry and commerce
and to people’s common interests.
The Secretary of Agriculture proposes co
operation with the States in protecting tim
bered and cut-over lands from fire, in refor
esting denuded lands, and in promoting
methods of timber cutting and removal that
will aid continuous production. Each of these
lines of service should be pressed with all
possible vigor. Merely to conserve the rem
nant of timber resources now left us will
not suffice. New forests must be brought
forth to replace those which have been de
stroyed; and the nation must learn to cul
tivate trees as one of its most precious treas
ures.
In this wealth-conserving and wealth-cre
ating endeavor, which in its fundamental re
lation to flood control and moisture supply
involves the future of agriculture no less
vitally than it does that of industry, there is
essential work for the State as well as for
the national Government. Foresighted Com
monwealths are moving to meet these obli
gations. New York and Pennsylvania have
appropriated millions for reforestation, and
many others are maintaining well-financed
forestry departments; the latter is assuredly
the least that any state can afford to do.
Georgia’s interests in this matter are par
ticularly far-reaching and should receive lib
eral Legislative consideration.
hat Shall We Name the Baby?”
Tn Billings, Mont., there are twenty-five
babies, some of them a year old, who bear no
first names ecause their parents have been
unable to choose satisfactor ones. This has
been discovered at the city health depart
ment, where it has been necessary to delay
state registration under the law because the
children have not been named. It may occur
to the reader that leaving babies nameless
is preferable to giving them such names as
often are fastened upon them for life.—Al
bany Herald.
Why not place a few dozen names in a hat
and let the baby select one?
THE RESTLESS
By H. Addington Bruce
RESTLESSNESS is frequently a sign of
great dissatisfaction with life. When
you see a man or woman chronically
restless, perpetually uneasy, the odds are that
man or woman is not getting out of life all
that he or she shoul'
Especially is restlessness likely to be a sign
of the thwarting of some instinct. It may be
the love instinct that has been denied ade
quate expression, or the acquisitive instinct,
or the altru tic instinct whereby people are
impelled to render useful social service.
Idlers are notoriously prone to be restless
because of the blocking of the altruistic in
stinct effected by their idleness. Let circum
stances compel them to give that instinct a
vent—as the late war compelled so many
idlers—and restlessness may leave them over
night.
But restlessness has physical as well as
moral causes. It may even be a symptom of
disease. As summarized by the Chicago spe
cialist, Dr. Meyer So omon:
“A condition of general chronic ill health,
perhaps unrecognized by the afflicted one, may
be present, and tends to bring on a condition
of uneasiness and restlessness more frequently
and more severely.
“Thus in pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes,
Sydenham’s chorea, exophthalmic goitre, ne
phritis with hypertension, in fact, in organic
disease of any type, especially when of a gen
eralized nature, so that it has its effect upon
the nervous system—and hence more espe
cially in organic diseases of the nervous sys
tem —such recurrent states of restlessness are
particularly apt to make their api arance.
Functional nervous disorders may also have
restlessness as a symptom. Everybody is fa
miliar with the restlessness of the unhappy
neurasthene and psychasthene. Or the rest
lessness may be symptomatic of an oncoming
attack of some irregularly recurring malady.
True dipsomaniacs—periodic drinkers —
usually have a period of extreme restlessness
before they begin their excessive alcoholic in
dulgence. Many epileptics similarly are rest
less on the eve of an epileptic seizure. And
restlessness is likewise of prodromic signifi
cance in numerous victims of nervous sick
headache, hay fever, and asthma.
Knowledge of this fact is obviously of med
ical value. It permits the taking of measures
to ward off an attac’ as soon as the prelim
inary sign of restlessness appears.
Finally, restlessness may result from un
hygienic living habits. Those Wno overwork,
overplay, overeat, undereat, underexercise,
undersleep, are all p"one to suffer from rest
lessness in consequence of nerve poisoning or
nerve exhaustion.
And, with the victims of faulty life atti
tudes, of behavior that involves instinct frus
tration, they make up an overwhelming ma
jority of the great army of the restless by
vhom we are surrounded.
(Copyright, 1920, by Associated Newspapers.)
THE LEAVES
By John Breck.
In the still of the misty morning I crept
forth to perch upon a comfortable stone and
watch the leaves awake. They lay flat on
their backs, relaxed by the night’s cool
damp, but the first long ray of sunlight set
them slowly curling up their springs in
readiness for the wind which was fast shred
ding up the fog. From beneath one a head
peered out —a tiny head of coppery-brown.
It had an eager, smiling mouth, bird-like
eyes, but no ears, though the place for them
was marked with black-etched eai;-tabs.
Into the warm glow glided a tiny snake,
scarce four inches long, and found himselr
a luxurious cradle in an eld leaf.
Odd folks are the snakes. Not only do
they do everything else differently from the
rest of us, but they even have their families
in the fall instead of the romantic spring
time. Yet as I watched the behavior of this
cautious infant I began to give them credit
for knowing their own business better than
I do. In the first place any toad will tell
you that after the leaves come down is the
time of times to hunt angle worms. Insect
eggs, too, and chrysalids abound —fat feed
ing for one whose eyes are sharp enough to
see them. An industrious eater grows at a
marvelous rate if the night frost doesn’t
catch him. Furthermore there isn’t the
fierce competition with the birds, who would
probably look on this tiny rival as merely
another worm himself, a tough-skinned,
hard-killing one. •
Coppery-headed he was, my early gnome,
but that was nothing against him, for his
tail did not wave the yellow flag of the poi
son fang, and his split-ribbon of a tongue
was innocently black. He wore three dark
stripes, each formed by a single row of
scales so fairy-fine a pen-stroke is wider. I
stooped to admire his sleek symmetry, his
exquisite finish, with my clumsy eye. With
a flick of his tail he shot forward, stretched
straight as an arrow’, drew himself up as he
touched the ground and sprang again with
vigor that sent pebbles larger than his whole
bulk rolling and rattling.
Poor baby! I had visions of him curled
beneath the half where he at last told
refuge, his slim sides fearfully panting. For
about five breaths I felt sorry for him
Then his expressive tail-tip told me some
thing was happening to him. Had I driven
him into fresh danger? Had a shrew caught
him? The accommodating wind flicked off
his cover,- gave me a glimpse of him. Faith,
he’d forgotten all about me. He was just
busy with another worm.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
Yes, At Honest Prices
Perhaps we are premature, but we’d like to
know didn’t Atlanta sell the Shipping Board
anything at all? —Dublin Courier-Herald
You didn’t imagine that Atlanta would
pass up an opportunity like that, did you?
Acknowledging the Com
Even a woman will acknowledge the corn
when you step on her toes. —Social Circle
New Era.
Perhaps so, but you can’t get her to admit
that her shoes are not too large.
Good Times in South Georgia
We are now enjoying the finest kind of
weather down here in Georgia. Cane grind
ings are everywhere, potatoes are being dug,
hogs are up fattening for the winter, ground
peas are being threashed, wheat and oats are
being sown, and south Georgia is going in
for a live-at-home campaign.—Vidalia Ad
vance.
If there is anything that Editor McWhor
ter enjoys more than the above mentioned
articles it has escaped the notice of his numer
ous friends.
The Second Oldest Newspaper
The Balti’ - lore American, which has re
cently been bought by Frank A. Munsey, is
the second oldest newspaper in the United
States, and indeed is older than the govern
ment itself. It has the distinction of having
first publisher “The Star Spangled Banner”
and to have been George Washington’s chief
advertising medium. The files ought to be
worth a tidy sum, even without the plant.—
Macon News.
Mr. Munsey now owns an important string
of newspapers and magazines that make him
one of the biggest publishers in the world.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Smaller Farms
Secretary John Barton Payne, in the an
nual repo.t of the interior department,
made public Monday, suggests smaller
farms and more intense cultivation as solu
tion of the problem presented by a de
sertion of the rural regions.
The secretary says that people prefer to
live in towns and villages and not like to
live alone. Small farms bring people clos
er together, and he finds that this may be
the remedy for present conditions.
X-Ray for Shoes
A New’ York store has installed an X-ray
o*utfit which permits its patrons to see just
how their feet fit in any pair of shoes. Pat
rons can note at a glance the position of the
bones of their feet, and in that manner de
termine whether or not they are trying on
the proper last.
Find Money
Gold rings, coins, w’atches and other valua
bles were found by a sewer gang in the slime
of an old pit in Boston.
The men found coins dating back to 1787,
stamped with a pine tree on one s ide and
“Massachusetts” on the other. .Close to the
ancient coins were found a number of beer
checks.
Co-Operative Factory
The first co-operative glove factory in
America, ow’ned and operated by Chicago
glove makers, is in operation in that city.
Finances for the K lant were raised by two
Chicago glove unions and through the sale of
shares to members. It is planned to market
the product to co-operative stores. The
plant is intended to enliven a period of dull
ness in the glove industry.
Big Turkey
The biggest turkey raised in Kansas, a
giant gobbler known as Big Tom, tipped
the scales at fifty-eight pounds before he
was killed by Elmer Hough and W. T.
Bell, professional fowl pickers, of Meade
county, Kan.
“When Big Tom’s feathers were off and
we laid him out on a table he looked like
a hog,” declared Mr. Hough, who has been
an expert poultry dresser for fifteen
years.
Food Riot
A huge demonstration in protest
against a 60 per cent increase in the cost
of food and clothing within the last
nupnth was staged in Vienna this week.
Government action to ameliorate condi
tions was demanded.
Government employes to the number
of 2 5,000 have announced that they will
strike because their wage and other de
mands have been refused and it is pos
sible the police also will walk out.
Striking bank clerks invaded the town
hall in Baden, smashed windows and
mirrors and then demolished several
coffee houses and hotel dining rooms.
Indian Incomes
The income of Osage Indians for the year
1920 will total nearly SIO,OOO for each mem
ber of the tribe and children who have in
herited oil rights because of death of rela
tives. Such is the belief of officials at the
government Indian agency at Oklahoma City
who base their estimate on payment of a
regular allotment in December.
Bonus payments of SI,OOO are now being
made to members of the tribe as an extra
dividend derived from past lease sales, the
purchasers being oil companies and individ
uals, who pay one-fourth the price of the
lease at once, with the balance due in three
years at 6 per cent interest. The total be
ing paid the Osages as bonuses is $2,225,000.
There are now 2,228 original shares in the
Osage Indian tribe, according to officers of
Indian affairs, this being the number of Os
ages and those adopted into the tribe when
the rolls closed for this bonus allotment.
Eggs and the Moon
Experiments have shown that more eggs
will hatch if the hen is set when the moon
is new, or very close to that period, and
that the young chicks hatched at that
time will be stronger and more vigorous,
and will grow more rapidly. On the other
hand, chicks hatched when there is no
moon are often more weakly and do not
make such strong and vigorous fowls, nor
are they such good egg-layers.
Newfoundland Cpal
Active steps to develop one of the bitum
inous coal areas which for more than sixty
years have been known to exist in this colony
are being taken by the Newfoundland govern
ment. Preliminary work has been started on
the deposit on the south branch of the Codroy
river, on the west coast of the island, as a
result of data provided by an official of the
Canadian Geological Survey who recently ex
amined the property.
A corduroy road is being built from the
first mine opening to the nearest station on
the railways, three miles distant. As a
means of transportation of the coal the gov
ernment has imported four motor trucks ca
pable of carrying five tons each. The gov
ernment also is directing examinations of
coal deposits at St. George’s, further north
on the west coast, and at a view to develop
ment if it appears warranted.
Industrial Accidents
Marian K. Clark, chief investigator of the
bureau of industries and immigration, New
York State Industrial Commission, reported
that in the fiscal year 1919-’2O there have
been reported 345,672 industrial accidents in
his state, an increase over the previous year
of 57,228, involving a direct loss to the state
under the workmen’s compensation law of
more than $40,000 a day and a combined
direct and indirect annual loss of about $35,-
000,000.
SIOO Island Sold for $2,000,000
In Conception Bay, N. F., is Bell Island,
sold by its original owner many years ago
for SIOO. Soon afterward it changed hands
again for $2,000,000. This enormous rise in
value was due to the accidental discovery
that the island is composed almost entirely
of iron ore.
Girl Fingerprint Expert
Pauline Buenzle, eighteen years old, is the
flfinger print expert in the office of the Cali
fornia state bureau of identification at Sacra
me >, and is said to be the youngest per
son in the United States engaged in her line
of work.
Women Are Recognized
Through action at the recent convention
in Atlantic City women have become eligible
o full membership in the Atlantic Deeper
v, aterways association.
Where They Live Longest
The longest average of life is to be
found in Norway.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1920.
IMMORTALIZING LADIES
By Frederic J. Haskin
r t t ASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 6. —The Na-
Vy tional Capitol L soon to have a new
’ ’ statue added to its collection of im
mortals. This statue wil. be unlike anything
elee in the Capitol in that it will consist of
three heads cut jut o the top of one block
of marble, leaving the lower part of the
block for a pedestal. It is further unusual
because the three heads are of women. There
is now only one statue in the Capitol to the
memory of a woman, and that is the marble
figure of Frances Willard, given by the State
of Illinois to Statuary Hall in 1905.
'T'he new gift to the Capitol is a memorial
to Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, three women who
first sponsored the then forlorn cause of
women’s rights. The idea of immortalizing
these women in marble was really conceived
long ago, when it was planned to display
busts of them at the World’s Fair. Adelaide
Johnson, the sculptor, modeled busts of Su
san Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton from life,
but the time for a memorial seemed not
quite ripe then, with the feminists’ aims un
achieved. Now, wheu the work to which the
pioneers gave their lives is completer!, a me
morial has greater significance, and Miss
Johnson has resumed work on the combina
tion statue on a larger scale than was first
planned.
The national woman’s party is raising $50,-
000 to pay for the material, workmanhip,
and transportation of the stone. The mate
rial is an eight-ton block of Italian marble
chosen by the sculptor at Scravezza. A pho
tograph sent from her studio at Carrara,
Italy, shows the statue in process of comple
tion. The three heads stand out above the
huge base of the .slab. They are arranged
in a triangle, all !acing one way.
The sculptor has promised that the work
will be finished and sent to Washington in
time for the opening of the woman’s partv
convention, February 15. As that day is the
101st Aniversary of Susan Anthony’s birth
day, the women are anxious to unveil the
statue in its place in the rotunda of the Capi
tol, then.
. . Red Tape
Much red tape is necessary in Capitol af
fairs, even to make a present. The Library
Committee in the Senate is in charge of
matters of art in the building, and Senator
Brandegee, of Connecticut, chairman of the
committee, has long been known as a fiery
opponent of suffrage for women. During the
crisis in the Connecticut legislature this sum
mer, however, he saw that the suffrage
amendment was inevitable, If not by Connec
ticut, then by some other state. He there
fore came out with a letter urging Connecti
cut to ratify the amendment, and since then
Senator Brandegee has so far become recon
ciled to women in national affairs, that he
agreed to use his influence to have his com
mittee report favorably on the matter of
placing the memorial in the rotunda at the
next session of congress. With this support,
there is small chance of congress refusing the
gift.
The rotunda where the statue is to be
placed is the great hall below the dome of
the Capitol. The hall contains eight large
paintings showing important scenes in the
history of America. Above these runs the
celebrated frieze which was begun by Brumi
di, the Italian artist, and which for years has
lacked only a few feet of completion. The
painting, done in gray, back, and white, to
simulate bas-relief, seems to be a series of
Indians, settlers, and soldiers following one
another around the wall, or occasionally fac
ing the other way to become part of. a picture
in our early history. Brumidi had planned
the entire frieze, but he died, and since his
time no artist has been found who could keep
to the spirit and technique of the Brumidi
work. Scaffolding ia still suspended by the
frieze where an artist recently tried out his
skill.
The rotunda in unfurnished, except for a
few chairs for the use of blue-coated guards,
and a half-dozen statues near the walls. This
collection of statues now consists of Lafay
ette. Lincon, Grant, Hamilton and Baker in
marble; Jefferson in bronze, and a plaster
cast of Washington from the famous statue
by Houdon. There is also a bust of Washing
ton in bronze, and a great head of Lincoln
rising out of a marble block, by Gutzon Bor
glum.
An Unbeknown Great Man
Next to the massive Lincoln head, the
statue labeled “Baker” attracts the most at
tention, because few people can place him in
history. His clothes are of a cut which sug
gests the time after the Revolution, and be
cause he is reproduce x life-size instead of he
roic, he looks short and chunky. Even down
in the office of the superintendent of the
Capitol it required some wracking of brains
and consultation of enclyclopedias to drag
forth the facts that Colonel E. D. Baker was
a noted warrior in the Mexican War, a Sen
ator from Oregon and finally died leading a
desperate charge early in the Civil War at
Ball’s Bluff.
After all, Baker was a man of distinction,
but placed by Washington, Jefferson, and
Lincoln the visitor is usually puzzled as to
his importance. Probably some people will
be equally unfamiliar with the women who
are to be added to the occupants of the ro
tunda. To the women who have been fight
ing for suffrage they are household names.
Susan B. Anthon;’, i particular, has always
been a name to conjure with in feminist
circles.
Susan B. was brought up by a Quaker
father to the belief that both men and wom
should be economically independent. She be
gan to teach school at fifteen years, and
from then on, whether teaching or lecturing
and campaigning for suffrage, she was a
working woman to her death at eighty-six
years.
The most interesting incident in her life
is probably her attempt to vote in the presi
dential election of 1872 as a test of the 14th
Amendment. She was arrested on Thanks
giving Day, and the case was tried the next
T une in a little New York county court.
The judge, who from his mannerisms has
come down in history as a “most ladylike
hidge,” lined himself up with convention and
tradition. He decreed that “the sentence of
the court is that you pay a fine of one hun
dred dollars and the costs of the prosecu
tion,” to which the prisoner returned. “May
it please your honor, I shall never pay a dol- :
lar of your unjust penalty.” i
The judge, believed her, and as one biog- ,
rapher says, “not wishing to incarcerate her
to all eternity, he added gently: ‘Madam, the
court will not order you committed until the
fine is paid.’ ”
Spinster on Principle
Miss Anthony never considered marriage.
She said half in jest that she could not con
sent that the man she loved, possessed of
the rights of citizenship and eligible to the
office of president, should unite his destinies
in marriage with a political slave and pariah,
as a woman was by the laws of the country.
Elizabeth Stanton was as ardent an expo
nent of woman’s equality with man as was
Susan 8., but she did not wait for the law
to come around before she would marry.
She did, however—back in 1840—insist on
the word obey being left out of the marriage
ceremony.
She writes: “I obstinately refused to obey
one with whom I supposed I was entering
into an equal relationship.”
The word “obstinately” she uses, not be
cause her fiance opposed the omission, but
because the Scottish minister who was to per
form the ceremony objected strenuouslv. He
finally gave in, but he avenged himself by
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Children’s Earnings
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
H T HAT proportion of my earnings
VI should I give my parents? Have
they a right to take everything I
make from me?”
These are questions that I am continually
asked, and in reply I can only say that it
seems to me that the financial obligation of
children to their parents depends altogether
upon the parents’ necessity..
If the parents are poor, and old, and fee
ble the children should support them, sv/l'
if it takes everything they make. If the
parents are not in dire straits of want, and
are able to work, then, if the children pay
their board, they have done everything that
their parents should expect or ask of them
For nature lays the responsibility of pro
viding for the children upon the parents. It
is those who have thrust life upon helpless
creatures who are bound by every law, hu
man and divine, to cherish them. They
have no right to feel that in having children
they have merely propagated a lot of slaves
to toil for them.
A great many parents do hold this view,
however, and we continually see men and
women who are husky and strong, and per
fectly able to support themselves, who knock
off work and begin to coddle imaginary ail
ments just as soon as their children get old
enough to be sent out to labor for them.
They set up rheumatic knees, and lame backs,
as an excuse for turning slackers, just as'
fashionable ladies develop nervous prostra
tion whenever they want to spend the sea
son at Palm Beach.
One would think that the last person on
whom fashion and mothers would graft
would be their own child, but so far from
this being the case, it is the exceptional par
ents who do not think that they have a per
fect right to everything their children make.
Os course, it isn’t so easy to hold up a
boy, and take his earnings away from him,
as it is a girl, so most parents are satis
fied if their sons pay board, but the poor
daughter, in the great majority of cases,
simply has to stand and deliver. Mother
takes her pay envelope away from her, and
woe to her if she has abstracted a penny for
herself, for mother considers that she has
been robbed.
Mother even thinks that she is being gen
erous in giving back to the gril who earned
the money, a few cents for car fare and a
moving picture, and when she buys her such
clothes as she thinks the girl needs.
Mother justifies her conduct on the ground
that she has better judgment, and it never
seems to enter her head that the girl who
has sense enough to make the money, prob
ably has intelligence enough to spend it,
a»id, in any event, the mere fact that she
has earned the money gives her the right to
do with it as she pleases. The dollars that
we have made with toil and sweat are OURS.
Parents are wrong from every point of
view in making a child turn over all of his or
her earnings to them. For one thing, it
works a great injustice, in that nearly al
ways it forces the industrious and saving
members of a family to toil to support the
Icafers. In almost every family > there
someone who has been born too tired to
work, and who simply will not stick to a job
as long as he or she is certain of three square
meals a day and comfortable shelter. Near
ly always there is a butterfly in the famil
who will have good clothes, and go to place
of amusement.
And strangely enough, this idler is nen ’
ly always mama’s pet, and she will take th
money of the hard-working children and gh
it to the spender. I have known dozens <>
cases in which frail girls were made, by thei
mothers, to turn over their money to her s
that she could give it to their worthies
brother, and I have known other cases in ,
which a brother was literally worked to •
death to support lazy and extravagant sis
ters.
This is most unfair, but justice has no
place in the repertoire of parents, and they
are ever ready to sacrifice their good chil
dren to the prodigal sons and daughters.
For the parents to require tLjir children
to turn over their pay envelopes to them,
kills all ambition, and strangles the sense of
thrift at its birth. There are few of us who
are so all-fired industrious that we work just
for the pleasure of working. The habit of
industry may have become so ingrained in
us that we love work, for work’s sake, when
we are old; but when we are young, we work
simply for the sake of the reward. We work
for the money that will buy us the pleasures
we want. We work because we have a vis
ion of the kind of a house we want to live
in, and the tart of a car we want to own,
and the position we want to hold, yhen we
are forty.
But if, at the end of the week, all we have
worked for is taken from us, If we are no
better off than we were at the beginning of
it, then our incentive is gone, the hope and
inspiration are swept away, and the thing
that turned work into a means to an end is
lacking, and it all becomes a purposeless,
endless drudgery.
That’s the reason that so many boys and
girls who are bright enough, and capable
enough, never take any interest in their work
and never get anywh re. They never receive
the reward for their labor, so they shrug their
shoulders and say, “What’s the use?” Their
greedy and grasping fathers and mothers
kill the goose that lays the golden egg when
they rob their children of their pay envelope.
I do not mean to imply that childr-n
should not support their parents if their par- *
ents need to be supported, or that they
should not help their parents. It is their
sacred duty to do so, but they should do so
in their own way. They should handle the
money they make themselves, and themselves
be the judge of what is a fair and reason- «
able divide.
The boy and girl who work should not
be made to support idle brothers and sis
ters. They should have the chance tv cave
up something to start life on themselves,
and they should have the ineffable Joy of
owning their own individual pocketbooks.
Millionaires Increasing
There are 20,000 more millionaires in this
country than there were in 1914, and they
are all located in the eastern cities. Most
of them made their money out of govern
ment contracts for the manufacture of muni
tions. —Rome Tribune-Herald.
It is rumored that the government paid
high for some things during the war.
praying long and fervently and preaching
nearly an hour on the obligations of the duti
ful wife.
Lucretia Mott the third reformer of the tri
angle, was a little Quakeress, vivacious of
manner, always simply dressed. As only the
head and shoulder of the women in the me
morial are to be sculped out of the rock, the
Quaker cap of Lucretia Mott is the only bit
of significant dress noticeable about the
statue.
Mrs. Mott was noted in her day for her lec
tures, especially her famous discourse on
woman in which she pleaded, for a woman to
be “acknowledged as a moral, responsible be
ing.” She especially decried the property
laws, which gave all of a woman’s posses
sions to her husband from the day of her '
marriage, to do with as he pleased.