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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The law of the Lord is perfect convert
ing the soul; the testimony of the Lord is
sure, making wise the simple. The statutes
of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
the commandment .of the Lord is pure, en
lightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord
is clean, enduring forever; the judgments
of the Lord are true and righteous alto
gether. More to be desired are they than
gold, yea than much fine gold; sweeter
also than honey and the honeycomb.
Moreover, by them is Thy servant waened,
and in keeping of them there is great re
ward. Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. Let
the words of my mouth and the meditations
of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.—
From the Nineteenth Psalm.
The Georgia Income Tax Bill:
A Plea for Its Perfection
SOME of the onsets against th© Georgia
Income tax bill, as it passed the House,
have been so immoderate that support
ers of the measure might well suspect such
criticism as being of a wholly destructive
purpose. Let us say at the outset that The
Journal does not walk in that counsel, nor
sit in the seat of the scornful. We are ear
nestly desirous of seeing enacted at the pres
ent session of the General Assembly legisla
tion that will insure revenues adequate to the
State’s progressive needs, under efficient
government. Moreover, we believe that an
income tax, if levied with reason and justice,
is an altogether proper means to that end.
We are mindful of the difficulties to be en
countered in any effort at tax revision—of
the misunderstanding, the narrow self-inter
est, the reactionism and the demagogy that
come swarming forth whenever such ques
tions are at issue. We do not ask of the
Legislature the impossible achievement of
pleasing all men, let alone all women. We
do ask that it look vigilantly to the broad
interests of the rank and tile, over whose
rights and prosperity it now holds so far
ranging an influence.
Because these interests stand jeopardized
by a House amendment to the Lankford bill
and because, moreover, the entire program
of needful tax revision is threatened with
failure unless honest fears upon that point
are set at rest' we appeal to the House and
Senate to unknot that matter in order that
their constructive work may be carried to
completion. This can be done the more
easily in that it calls for no surrender of con
viction or principle, but simply for a read
justment and a safeguard.
The troublous amendment is that which
strikes from the Senate draft of the bill the
provision that the proposed tax shall be upon
net incomes. This, it must be said, leaves
the way open to grave contingencies. That
supporters of the amendment have the best
of intentions and argue cogently for its
adoption, does not alter the fact that good
citizens are filled with apprehension if not
alarm —apprehension -which, we are bound
to aver, is not fanciful. Business men and
farmers alike, to say nothing of the host of
wage-earners and salaried workers, can but
feel anxious at the prospect of there being
written into the State’s constitution author
ity so» tsie Legislature to tax gross incomes.
Whatevij may be urged in defense of the
House amendment (which, we grant, is not
without precedent) there remains the possi
bility of its working serious injustice to in
dividuals and institutions and loss of pros
perity to the commonwealth. Consider an
instance or two of its danger.
If, under this amendment, a business con
cern haa a gross income of a million dollars
and a net Income of only a thousand dollars,
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOUKIAL
it nevertheless be taxed five per cent
upon a million dollars. If it had a gross in
come of a million dollars and a net loss of
a thousand dollars, it might nevertheless be
taxed five per cent upon a million dollars.
If a farmer's gross income from his crops
was, say, two thousand dollars, and his net
income only two hundred dollars, he might
be taxed five per cent on two thousand dol
lars, should a Legislature see fit to exercise
its possible power under the amended bill
now awaiting Senate action. Or if he had a
gross income of two thousand dollars and a
net loss of two hundred dollars, he still might
be. responsible for a tax of five per cent on
two thousand dollars. Improbabilities, be it.
granted. But the merest possibilities are
of great moment when they involve a peo
ple’s livelihood and progress.
It is pointed out byway of reply to such
objections that the pending bill is not in
the nature of a statutory enactment, but is
the proposal of a constitutional amendment
simply authorizing the Legislature to pass
an income tax measure, which measure it
self will prescribe all needful particulars,
such as exemptions and other insurances ;
against excess. True it is that a constitu
tional amendment should not be encum
bered with details. But if a safeguarding
clause or word will reassure the public
against prevalent fears wtiy not insert it?
By.making it clear beyond a peradventure
that the proposed amendment does not au
thorize a tax upon gross incomes, the bill
can be expedited to passage and to ratifi
cation at the polls, whereas the withholding
of such assurance will, as fah as we can
observe, foredoom it to defeat. Surely,
friends of tax revision in general
and of the Income tax in particular will not
forfeit the success of a great cause by re
fusing to clear up the doubts of honest
minds}
They are not called upon, as we have
said, to surrender a principle or to impair
the effectiveness of the proposed amend
ment. If inclusion of the word “net” would
leave loop-holes for evasion of income tax
returns and payments, then by all means
find some phrase that will avoid this error
and at the same time preclude the possi
bility of confiscation by a five per cent tax
on gross incomes. Certainly there is enough
of legal acumen, enough of legislative re
sourcefulness in the House and Senate to meet
this requirement. And met it must be. For
while it would be useless to enact a. revenue
measure that would not produce revenue, it
would be highly perilous to enact one that
would penalize prosperity, dishearten honest
ability and initiative, load labor and capital
alike with insupportable burdens, choke the
fires of young industry just when they are
beginning freely to burn, turn back a great
enriching tide of homeseekers and investors,
and deal the future of Georgia a well-nigh
irreparable blow.
This The Journal says in full sympathy
with the task which constructive leadership
in the House and the Senate has set out to
accomplish, and with keen appreciation of
the impossibility of ever satisfying all objec
tions. But an objection that vitally involves
the welfare of the people and one that in
volves the effectiveness of the income tax
measure ought to be satisfied. To this end,
therefore, all believers in helpful tax revision
should co-operate in perfecting the pending
bill so that it will safeguard the State against
would-be evaders of the law and also against
the possibility of ruinous levies upon gross
income.
Better an excess of caution now than a
reaping of the whirlwind in months and
years ahead. Congress is about to be called
upon to remedy in the federal income tax
law certain wrongs and dangers which are
driving numbers of good men out of business
and millions of capital out of constructive
investment. The framers of the law never
intended that it should result in such ills,
but their failure to provide against contin
gencies has cost the countrj* dear. Georgia’s
lawmakers may well profit by the example.
Let them co-operate for the passage of a
measure at once safe and effective, and the
State will be their everlasting debtor.
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb
Allan Dawson, a New York editor, used
to tell how he was in London when the
question of making five hundred new lords
was agitating England. He claimed that he
happened to be in the press gallery of the
House of Commons while the subject was
under discussion.
“It was an exciting time,” said Dawson.
“A long list of names was under considera
tion. I listened until the House had dis
posed of three and had chosen their titles.
“The first man they picked on was Gen
eral Booth of the Salvation Army. It was
set forth that his title was to be Lord
Saveus. The next was Mr. Patterson, the
big baggage and express man of London,
and his title was to be Lord Deliverus. The
third was Mr. Pink, who owned the largest
jam Factory in England. They decided to
call him Lord Preserveus. After that I came
away.
(Copyright, 1923.)
MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN
“Egbert,” said one of the Hallroom Boys
to the other. “I want to ask you a very per
sonal question: If I take a girl out for the
evening and show her a good time at the
movies and on the way home buy her an ice
cream soda, do you think I should kiss her
when I tell her good-bye?”
Egbert gave the proposition intensive
study.
“No, Clarence,” he said, at length, “don’t
you kiss her. You've done quite enough for
her!”
I (Copyright, 1923.) * *
s FLOWING GOLD
BY REX BEACH
CH A PTER XXIV r —Continued
{{T tB told me everything. He told me
I —l that you were dishonorably dis
■** -*• charged from the army—cashiered,
we used to call it —and that you blame him.
I don’t mind saying it was a shock —worst
I've had in years. In time of war, too! The
army doesn’t do that unless—without am
ple— Well, Gray, it's damned nasty!”
“Quite the nastiest thing that can happen
to a man,” the other agreed in a thin, flat
voice.
“I couldn’t, wouldn’t believe it.”
“There is nothing to say.”
“What? My God, man! You don’t
mean— See here, you're not a coward, or a
thief, or an incompetent. What’s your side
of the story? What’s the explanation?”
“Explanations are hateful. The man who
makes them deceives either himself or the
other fellow —usually both. It is easy to
be plausible. Would a mere statement from
me, unsupported by proof, convince you
where it failed to convince a court martial?
Os course not.”
“Hm-m! It is an embarrassing situation
for me.”
“Indeed?”
“Nelson has sold a large block of bin
bank stock to one of our directors.”
“Tell him to get out from under, quick,”
Gray said, sharply, “for I'll break Henry
Nelson or—l'll kill him!”
“Tut, tut! You’re excited. You mustn’t
talk like that. I give you credit for an hon
est hatred, but —I can’t sympathize with it.
Neither can I believe so ill of Henry Nelson.
Remember, I’ve known him and Bell for
years. With a complete finality the bankei'
concluded, “You’ll have to give it up, Gray.”
“I beg pardon?”
“1 say we shan’t permit, you to go on
with this murderous feud. We can’t be
parties to it. What you’ve told me warrants
us in withdrawing our support instantly."
“I need your money and your support
now more than ever,” the other man gravely
confessed. “I need it at once; today. Never
theless I sha’n’t quit.”
“You must!” Roswell cried, impatiently.
“You can’t defy us.”
“The devil I can’t!” It was Gray’s turn
to blaze. “That's exactly what I’m doing-
I defy you to get your money out. I defy
you to interfere with me in the slightest or
to wring a particle of mercy out of me. I
knew this would come, sooner or later, and
I planned accordingly. What d’you think 1
am. eh? I tell you I’ve got him? Other
wise he'd never squeal about this—army
matter. Now then, tell your crowd to try
and pull out! That's not a threat, sir, for
they have played fair with me, and I sha’n’t
sacrifice a penny of their money—unless
they force me to do so. But —I’m in con
trol. I'm sitting pretty. They can't unseat
me, and I w ( arn them not to try.”
The speaker rose. He hesitated, before
leaving, to say: “Your son served with
honor, Mr. Roswell. I know how you must
feel about this—other matter, therefore I
shall spare you ‘the embarrassment of de
clining my hand.”
The financier's face reddened; rather
stiffly he said. “You know whether you
have a right to offer it.”
Instantly the departing visitor extended
his palm, and Roswell realized that he had
seldom seen a man more deeply moved.
“Thanks! I— It is a blow to lose your
support, but —nothing can swerve me. Mean
while, I’m glad that we do not part as
enemies.”
When he had gone, when he had passed
out with head up and shoulders square, the
banker shivered slightly. Audibly he mur
mured: “God, what a man! What a
hatred!”
The Briskows had just moved into their
new home, and the place was still in some
confusion when Gray mounted the steps. Pa
answered the bell ih his shirt sleeves and
•with a claw hammer in his hand, for he
had been hanging pictures. He favored his
visitor with a wide smile of welcome and a
hearty greeting—quite a /eat, inasmuch as
his mouth was full of nails—then, having
rid it of its contents, he explained:
‘‘We got a slave that tends the door,
but I ain't got gentled up to bells an things
yet. Allie’s away an’ Ma’s layin’ down, so—
“Ma isn’t ill, I hope?”
“jNo-no. Just ailin'.”
“You were in luck to find a house in
such a smart enighborhood, Gus. Now show
me around, quickly, for I’m dying to see it.”
“Lord. I'm dyin’ to show it to somebody!
You’re the first one that’s dropped in an’
We been here ’most two weks. Say, you'll
saty an’ eat supper, won’t you?”
“Os course I will, and breakfast, too, if
you can take care of me.”
Pshaw! Didn’t we take keer of you
when you come to the ranch? We got three
niggers now, just doin’ the housework. I’d
of bought a bigger house of they'd pf let
me, but—”
It is large enough. Anything more
would merely add to your cares.”
Allie and Ma picked out the furniture.
Swell, ain’t it?”
Beautiful! Gray exclaimed. Inwardly
he groaned for although the contents of the
home appeared to be expensive, almost os
tentatious, they nevertheless betrayed a con
spicuous lack of taste both in character and
in arangement. Here and there were color
combinations so atrocious that thev posi
tively hurt the caller. On the whole, how
ever, the place looked better than he had
expected, and such indications of harmony
and restraint as he detected he attributed to
Allie. It was a nice enough home, and with
a little change, a little rearrangement, it
could be made attractive even to one of ele
gant tastes. Those changes, of course, Gray
determined to make.
“Allie’s gone out to the old farm to get
some stuff for Ma,” the father explained in
due. time. “Some pitcher of her an’ Buddv
when they was little, an’ a rockin’-chair, an’
Mas favorite bedspread, an’ some other
things she lik.es.”
Gray remembered the portrails, executed
by a St. Louis “enlargement” concern. They
had wide gilt frames, and were protected
from ravaging flies by mosquito netting. He
hoped that Ma would not hang them in the
hall of the living room. And that rocker,
for which she yearned, was probably the one
with the creaking coiled springs—the one
that had leaped after him and clashed its
jaws like an alligator.
“By the way, how does Buddy like the
new home?” the latter inquired.
“He ain't seen it yet. Says he’s too busy
to leave the job. What you done to that
boy, anyhow?”
“I’m making a real man out of him—and
an oil man, too. He knew how to dress
tools when I got him, but he's a pretty
good driller now. Before long he’ll be able
to take charge of your property and run it
on practical lines.
“Tell me, Gus, how much money have
you got?”
“I dunno. Diggers over a thousand dollars
don’t mean much to me.”
Gray searched the speaker's face with a.
speculative gaze. “It's mostly liquid I pre
sume.” There was a pause. “I mean it’s in
cash or the equivalent?”
“Oh sure! These bonds an’ stocks an’
things ” Briskow shook his head disap
provingly. “Land ain’t any too safe, either.
It s rainin now, an’ it’ll keep on rainin’
till the farmers is all drowned out. Next
year it’ll be droughty an fry ’em to a crisp.
No. I’m skeered of land. I’m skeered of
everything!” This last was said plaintively.
“You're the only man I ever knowed that
I d bank my life on. An’ you’re smart. You
wouldn t take Buddy, but mebbe you'd kin-
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
CONGRESS TO BEGIN TO GRIND
POLITICS
THE reader of current events, and the -
Georgia Assembly (as an illustration),
will decide that party politics is a
costly and very questionable proposition to
Georgia. It is paying $7.00 per day and
mileage. It is averaged at $2,500 per day—
throughout. The onjy organization to ex
ceed it, in waste and uselessness is the
United States congress. On the first Mon
day in December, congress will meet and
begin its grinding of politics, to continue,
maybe to August, 1914.
The pay goes on in congress—by the year
•—57,500, and no matter whether the con
gress is in session or the members at home,
the daily pay keeps going. The mileage is
20 scents permile. Those who attend from
the Pacific slope pocket some thousands
extra and above the price of their railroad
tickets. No wonder the great majority are
unwilling to leave Washington when they
fail ’to be re-elected. They continue to
stay and generally shrivel up into the lob
byist variety—until they are good for noth
ing to themselves or anybody connected with
them. I might say without contradiction,
that an ex-congressman is almost good for
nothing to himself or his people after he
decides to younge around the national capi
tol as a dead beat, or a lobbyist, or grasp
ing at offices that he longs for, and does
not get from his party.
There are more than a few of them,
you may be sure! While he is in the
game, he is in clover. He is flattered and
feted by his clequ?es until he generally
loses his head and gets more or less ri
diculous to those w r ho are acquainted with
him where he came from.
In the winter of 1876-77 when the Fel
don-Hayes campaign was being considered
by the electoral • commission, Washington
City was full of candidates for every po
sition in the departments by both Republi
cans and Democrats. The log-rolling and
the lick-spitting was prodigious. I was
present one day when an innocent visitor
asked a lady, whose husband splurged to
the limit, what office he held in the city.
With a. smile, she replied: “He is a lobby
ist. We spend our time here when con
gress is in session then w r e go home to —,
and rest until congress assembles in De
cember.”
He was not present, and I wondered what
remarks he would have made if he had
heard his wife describe his calling. My
innocent friend pinched my arm when we
started to our rooms—and he ejaculated—
“ Did you ever? And we thought sbe was
such a nice lady?” I still think she was
good and amiable and preferred to be truth
ful. Whep that matter developed more
clearly—the husband was found to be em
ployed by the Pacific railroads to keep an
eye on greedy congressmen and senators
and they really looked to be very prosper
ous people in ’their expensive manner of
living.
When congress meets next Monday the
crowds will be there. The harpies will
attend and the campaign for president in
THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘
TRANSMIGRATION
By Dr. Frank Crane
THE army, as a figure of speech, has
been overworked.
We speak of the Church as the Army
of the Lord, of the School as the Army at
tacking Ignorance, and the like. But the
analogy of any purely spiritual or education
al movement to a military organization is
misleading; for this reason, that the ob
ject of an army is to get a thing done, it
is entirely an executive affair, while the
purpose of moral or intellectual enterprises
is to develop the faculties of its members.
In the army it is a first principle that the
individual is to sacrifice himself to the ma
chine. In the schoolroom, Church, scientific
or literary movement quite the reverse is
true; the organization exists merely for the
sake of the human unit.
The more a Church, school or political
party emphasizes the machinery, the power,
glory and influence of the organization, the
less is its value to the souls in it. Person
ality is the very thing such an institution
does not exist to suppress, but to develop.
“T*he Sababth,” said Jesus, “was made for
man, and not Man for the Sabbath.” And
the nearer we aprpoach to wisdom the
weightier seem the human value. The wel
fare of one little baby is of more importance
than all the decisions of the courts, a wom
an’s haplpness is of riiore account than all
the banks of the city, and a soul is greater
than a cathedral.
In the blundering economy of Man we
sacrifice a thousand lives to defend a bound
ary line, in the infinite love and sagacity of
God a thousand planets would be smashed
to preserve one idea.
After all. the most important question in
all the world is “What is to become of Me?”
This is not wliolly selfish. At least it is
intelligent selfishness.
Anyone who entirely forgets himself and
cares nothing about himself or says so, 1
will not say he is telling an untruth, for he
may be perfectly sincere. But it is very
probable that he is thinking loosely.
It is well enough to give one’s self up to a
noble idea, but the only -way we know that
an idea is nobleds that it ennobles us.
If the great principle of conviction or
creed .awakens no greatness in us, then it
does not justify itself.
If I do not preserve myself and maintain
my health, my reason and my conscience, I
shall not be of much use to other people.
One is not like to be of much service to
the world in loving others as himself unless
he loves himself intelligently.
The real “Army of the Lord” is composed
of those soldiers who are true first of all to
themselves. And, as Shakespeare says, “It
must, follow as the night the day, they can
not then be false to any man.”
(Copyright, 1923.)
da—take me; take all of us. I tell you I’m
skeered.” .
“Just how mjuch confidence do I inspire
in you?” Gray’s expression was peculiar, for
amazement, doubt, eagerness were equally
blended.
“This much: I'd turn the hull works over
to you, it you’d look out for us.”
For quite a while the caller sat with
head bowed, with his gaze fixed upon lhe
flames; when he looked up his face was
red. his eyes were brighter than usual.
“You don’t know how much I’d like to
say yes, but I fought Buddy to prevent
him from making a mistake, and I sha’n't
allow you to make this one.”
“Hm-m! Will you keep me from makin’
other mistakes?”
“I will, if I can.”
“Mebbe that’s enough. Anyhow, I’ll sleep
better tonight for seein’ you.”
“I think I hear Ma stirring,” said Gray,
as he rose. “I brought her a few little pres
ents, and I’d like to take them up to her.”
As he left the room there was’ the same
queer light in his eyes; nevertheless, he
moved slowlj r , like a man tired.
Continued Thursday. Benew your sub
scription now so as not to misse an install- !
went of this splendid story.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 4.
1 924 will b launched and well under way.
Politics is hot now, it will be sizzling hot
in many states by March, also in congress,
and getting hotter. It will cause the sane
and sensible to remark, (for thethousandth
time. I guess): “We will never do any
better until a president is allowed a six
year term, and then retired to private life.
Coming back to the Georgia legislature,
the taxpayers should elect a governor for
Jour years and then retire him for the
good of the people, en masse —to private
life.
We should allow the legislature to as
semble only twice in the four years, and
stop making new counties, and thus com
pel a reduction of salaried officials—and
demand an audit of all the money drawn
from the state treasury—and a published
statement as to the receiver and his name
and his place of residence—and the name
of his boss in the public service. The
members of the legislature have stared on
their third week of the special session.
The governor is to be criticized loudly for
making the call. It was superfluous and so
declared. The people cannot vote on what
they decide to do, until November, 1924.
In view of what is now going on the voters
are more than apt to defeat anything the
general assembly passes.
As I write this I find the legislature has
passed the Langford bill, to charge 5 per
cent income, gross tax and to reduce the ad
valorem tax to 3 mills—from 5 mllsl.
The members of this legislature who
shouted against Governor’ Hardwick in 1922
for favoring an income tax before the tax
equalization bill was voted on by the senate,
owe him an humble apology at this time.
The Langford bill vindicates Ex-Governor
Hardwick and puts the burden on the men
who really did the work—in the year 1922,
and the whole thing is now fully exposed.
To my mind this a great mistake, and I
expect the taxpayers to defeat its ratifica
tion next year, 1924.
It should be ad valorem tax or a straight
income tax —as a part and parcel of the
federal tax. To mix the taxes between the
two will never work satisfactorily. It may
facilitate Senator Langford’s campaign for
governor, because he is in front of the other
candidates just now, but this muddle will
entail endless expense to taxpayers and a
multitude of officials to balance accounts, as
to value, and as to the revenue secured from
property—which constitutes the value.
The old ad valorem law has been safe—■
as to state taxes. This mixtry of value and
income will be an open door to the wildest
appropriations, and the result will be in
evitable —no progress.
The big business organizations will let
Georgia alone strictly. They will see no
good reason for throwing their money into
a maelstrom of politics, with no limit to
graft and hypocrisy.
The land owner will catch is coming and
going. The Empire State will swarm with
spy investigators. The wise investor will
give Georgia the “go-by.” This scheme is
i a Pandora’s box.
HINTS FOR PARENTS
By H. Addington Bruce
A PPRECIATIVE of the importance of
/-X your child doing well in school, you
x doubtless co-operate with his teachers
to the extent of urging him to study faith
fully, to pay attention in the classroom, to
be polite and orderly in his ways.
Do you also co-operate by setting him an
example of these qualities which mean so
much for his education*
Many parents, unfortunately, do not thus
co-operate. And unfortunately their children
are much more likely to be influenced by the
examples set them than by the precepts
dinned into their ears.
This follows from the extreme suggestibil
ity of childhood, the tendency of childhood
to be governed in its acquisition of habits of
1 thought and behavior by the instinct of imi
tation.
; Let a parent be himself or herself lacking
, in diligence, interested more in amusement
than in achievement, thoughtless, impatient,
! and rude, and the child of such a parent
will almost inevitably constitute a thorny
problem for teachers.
Recently I came across a jest which has
more than a modicum of truth in it:
! “Before teachers blame a child's tonsils
for his dullness, they should take a look
at the child’s parents.”
It is notorious that there are homes in
, which one or both parents are frankly lazy.
, There are homes in which the criterion of
' happiness is the gaining of pleasure.
There are homes, too, in which, day after
day and many times a day, the parents are
' rude Io each other and speak disparagingly
' of friends and acquaintances.
All this has a disturbing, an unsettling
effect on the children in such homes.
Why should they study hard, when their
■ parents by their every action betray repug-
■ nance to earnest effort?
Why should they be attentive, when tne
last thing their parents do is to think really
hard about anything?
Why should they be polite to teachers and
playmates, when their parents are so rude
; and perhaps indulge in outright quarrels?
The contrast between precept and example
is too glaring to be lost upon the child.
And unless circumstances —as they sometimes
, do—enter to provide him with a counter
balancing good example, precept is certain
to make little impression upon him.
He may, indeed, if he is of an unusually
sensitive nature,, be so unfavorably affected
by the example of his indolent, pleasure
loving, and quarrelsome parents as to be
come, not merely incapable of doing good
work, but also nervously overwrought.
His nervous trouble, again, may show It
self in any one of several ways. Unruliness
and misbehavior by children, even lying and
theft, have at times been found merely
symptomatic of a nervousness due to emo
tional conflict born of distressing home in
fluences.
These are facts no parent can afford to
ignore. Ask yourself, then, just how far
you reall) r are co-operating with your child’s
teachers, bearing in mind that precept co
. operation alone is hardly worthy of the
j name.
(Copyright, 1923.)
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Q. What a r e the by-products of cotton?
B. J. R.
A. The by-products of cotton are oil (food
and lubricating), cellulose, celluloid, gun
cotton, stock feed and cloth.
Q. How many presidents have had their
pictures on postage stamps? B. C.
A. Fifteen presidents have had their por
traits on postage stamps: Washington, Jef
ferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Ty
ler, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleve
land, McKinley, Roosevelt and Harding.
Q. What does “Glimpses of the Moon”
mean? P. L.
A. Edith Wharton used this title for a
book, and Oscar Wilde employed it in “De
Profundis,”but it can be traced to that mak
er of apt njetaphors and similes. Shakespeare.
I He used it in "Hamlet.” Muray defines the
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
What has gone before.—Althea Cros
by inherits a fortune on condition that
she marry before she is 35. She falls In
love with handsome young Dr' 'Peter
Graham and marries him without telling
him about the condition in the will.-
Eventually he hears gossips discussing it «
and assumes she married him to get pos
session of the fortune. He becomes cool
and she assumes he married her for her
money. She becomes very jealous of her
husband’s attentions to Mrs. Ruth Wil
liams. a wealthy patient. Althea meets
Kenneth Moore and his gayety attracts a
.her. — Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XXVI
THE rift between Althea and Peter wi
dened daily, yet to all outward ap
pearance they were as other couples'—
the husband’s business preventing him afcting
often as an escort. They never really quar- ♦
reled, although often on the verge. Peter
had great self-control and when he felt a
quarrel was imminent invariably left 'the
room. Pride and a certain growing bitter
ness also helped Althea to pretend a compos
ure she did not feel; to answer quietly and
coldly when she longed to give vent; to the
irritating feeling that so often possessed her.
Her inner revolt never ceased. ,In her
heart was a great emptiness. She did miss
Moore, confessed it to herself when alone.
But why? Why, when she loved Peter so
much, should she care for the society of an
other man? Think of him? She did not
realize her longing for affection made her
turn to whoever gave it, as a flower turns to
the sun and with no more conscious intention. r
Moore was unusually handsome, so im- •
mensely good-tempered and bright. He. really
was a delightful man. It was this, his good
nature, his anxiety to please her, that made
her think of him. So she decided, dismissing
the feeling of uneasiness aroused by Nell
Langford’s chatter.
Perhaps Jane, the maid, realized more per
fectly than anyone else that there was some
thing unusual in the attitude of Peter and
Althea toward each other. To the young
plumiber who visited her twice a week in her
spotless kitchen she said:
“They’re too polite to each other, Jim.
Something’s wrong between them, that’s sure.
When they are alone they never and
talk much, and they never have a bit of a
squabble. It ain’t natural for married folks
to live that way.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” Jim, who was very
much in love with Jane, replied. "“They
might like each other too well to quarrel. I’d
never fight with you, Jane, if you’d have me.”
“Oh, you wouldn’t! Well, Jim Fagin, I
never knew two Irish to get together and not
squabble. But they are so cold-like. Seems
as if neither of them cared a bit what the
other done, yet sometimes she looks awful
sad-like, and sometimes he looks at her as if
he wanted to say something and didn’t dast.”
“I guess a man like him, a doctor, ain’t
afraid of saying what he wants to,” Jim re
turned with confidence. “I guess you sort of
imagine things, Jane.”
“No I don’t! And there’s another man
comes here a lot —a Mr. Moore. He s aw
ful handsome, and so jolly. He makes her
laugh and talk fast enough. She seems to
like him too. Yet she ain’t the flirty 1 , kind
one bit. 1 wait on them and I see more n i
they think I do. She cries sometimes too. ’
Not much. She ain’t that kind either, but
they ain’t happy—l know they ain’t.”
“Oh, well, never mind them! Let’s talk
about ourselves, the little flat I am going to
fix up for you, Jane, as soon as you say
the word. We’ll be happy if they ain t. ’
Moore had not returned when Peter and
Althea accepted an invitation for a Sunday
afternoon in the country. It was to be a
picnic supper in a certain stretch of woods.
Peter had an urgent call just before the
time to go and they were late in starting,
but with directions as to where to meet the
others they promised to join them.
Althea was delighted at the thought of
the long ride with Peter. When they started
half an hour after the others, she chatted
quite gaily with him. They found the woods
but no trace of the party. They seemed quit*
alone.
“Come,” sbe said, suddenly realizing this,
“we must find them. It would be easy to
wander about here, until we were quite lost.;
You’d better call.” • <■ *
“I think I could take care of you—even
if 'we shouldn’t find them,” Peter said; »
Althea glanced quickly at him. There was
nothing in the words, and the tone was
very quiet. His face was grave and calm.
Yet.she felt something stirring in him that
made the color ebb from her face, leaving
it quite white; a strange excitement made
her heart rise suddenly as if a hanii had *
pushed if from underneath.
Peter looked at her, smiling a little.
“If we were lost here, together, would
you very much mind?” he asked in an or
dinary tone. Then without waiting lor an
answer he put his hands to his kps and
called loudly. An answering shout led them
to the others and although they had a very
gay picnic the feeling of unerality lingered
with Althea. . .
She had known she would not chre if
she were lost with Peter, would feel no *
fear, no sense of danger, only joy at an ad
venture shared with him.
On the ride home both were very quiet,
evidently busy with their thoughts. As he
helped her from the car he said:
“Very much —more than I have enjoyed,
anything in a long time,” she answered, re
membering what he had said —he could *
take care of her.
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES'
Q. How many motion .picture companies
are. there in Los Angeles? R. J.
A. The chamber of commerce says thgt the
city has 250 producing companies, and fifty
eight studios. There are twenty-nine the
aters and ninety motion picture houses in
Los Angeles.
The 14-year-old London boy was caught
picking pockets. “Now, my lad,” said the
severe magistrate, “have you anything to say •
for yourself?—any'excuse to offer for such,
early depravity? What started you on this
road of crime?” “You did, mister?” “I p
did What do you mean, boy?” ■ “Well,
mister, if you 'adn’t given me old dad six
months’ hard, I wouldn’t have had to start
life so early to keep the ’ome going.’’
If he. can take two small fragments of
truth and make a large, convincing He, he
is a propagandist.—Akron Beacon Journal.-
If Mrs. Belmont's expectation of seeing
a woman in the White House Is realize*,
there will at least be the chance for mere ;
man to become the first gentleman in ths
land. —Columbus Dispatch.
phrase as “a momentary shining, a flash, and 1
as used in “Hamlet,” the e°rth by night.”
Q. Is it true that every nine years there If
a rabbit famine? M. C.
A. The Biological Survey says that, tho •
statement that there is a scarctiy of rabbits
every nine years is more or less true. - Rab
bits become very numerous and periodically *
die off, although this does not occur regular
ly every nine years. It is thought that this
is caused by some diseases spreading among
the rabbits.