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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dis
mayed, for I am thy God: I will strength
en thee, yea I will help thee, yea I will
uphold thee ivith the right hand of my
righteousness. Behold, all they that were
incensed against thee shall be ashamed and
confounded; they shall be as nothing; and
they that strive with thee shall perish. For
I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right
hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, I will
help thee. . . . When the poor and needy
seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I, the Lord, will
hear them; 1, the God of Israel, will not
forsake them.—lsaiah 41:10-12, 17.
The Improved Farm Situation
AMID the deluges of information now
pouring from Washington as depart
mental annual reports, the Secretary
of Agriculture, Hon. Henry C. ‘Wallace,
presents certain facts and views which, be
cause of the basic importance of the sub
ject, command especial attention. We all
depend ultimately on the man behind the
plow. What have been his fortunes and
adversities in the year drawing to a close,
and what are his prospects? To answer
aright is to tell a large part of the story
of business attainments and tendencies.
Secretary Wallace finds American farm
conditions of a mingled streak, the fat and
lean together; but in the main he deems
them decidedly more favorable than in the
two years preceding. The aggregate farm
Income will overtop that of 1922 by hun
dreds of millions of- dollars. This is ex
plained partly by expanded acreage and in
creased production. Some three hundred
and forty-one million acres of principal
crops were planted in 1923, a gain of four
million over 1922 and three million over
1921; while the yield exceeds lhe average
for the last ten years by eleven million
tons. Particularly interesting are the fig
ures on the total value of corn, wheat, oats,
barley, rye, buckwheat, flaxseed, white po
tatoes, sweet potatoes, hay and cotton.
These eleven crops, according to values on
October 1, are worth six billion nine hun
dred and forty-seven million dollars this
year, compared with five million seven
hundred and eleven million in 1922, and
five billion two hundred and eighty-nine
million in 1921. It appears, moreover,
that the buying power of farm products as
a whole has increased in the course of the
twelvemonth—a fact of major importance
to business as well as to agriculture. Cot
ton at the farm is reported by the Secretary
as two and a quarter times its pre
war value. Poultry and dairy products
also have been markedly profitable, as
many Georgia farms will attest; while sev
eral classes of vegetables and fruits have
fetched prices much above the general
range. In the country at large, as in Geor
gia, diversification usually spells success.
But the picture is not all sunshine. De
spite improvement in the purchasing power
of farm products, they still are dispropor
tionately lower in the price scale than are
other commodities. What the farmer has
to buy is, for the most part, much nearer
the war-time level than w-hat he has to sell.
This is attributed by Secretary ‘Wallace to
high industrial wages, high freight charges,
and “unfavorable exchange rates with Eu
ropean countries,” in consequence of which
export trade in farm products is restricted.
This last condition might well have claimed
more comment than the Secretary saw fit to
bestow. In the matter of wool he is careful
to point out that its farm price is now
twice what it was before the World war,
an advance which he credits to the pro
tective tariff. But he is equally careful to
refrain from discussion of the tariff upon
agricultural markets in general, and in par-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOUKYAL
titular upon that of wheat. We do not chide
him, however, for avoiding a subject so
painful to the administration of which he
is a distinguished member. Rather, ft is
but natural in the circumstances that he
should count the better part of valor to be
discretion. Besides, observant farmers need
no reminder of the harm which the Ford
ney-McCumber tariff has done them.
They have suffered most in the wheat
and corn belt. Reports from fifteen states
of that region regarding financial difficul-
I ties show that four per cent of “owner
farmers” have lost their holdings “through
bankruptcy or foreclosure,” while about
four and a half per cent gave up their
farms to creditors, “without legal process.”
An additional fifteen per cent is described
as “actually bankrupt, but holding on
through the leniency of their creditors.”
Secretary "Wallace is still haunted by the
notion of a government agency empowered
to purchase and export wheat and other
agricultural products “which the country
produces in quantities yielding a surplus
over home needs.” Far sounder in point
of economics is his approval of co-opera
tive marketing, with its commitant con
trol of acreage, as a means of remedying
the wheat growers’ ills.
The report, as a whole, however, is
highly creditable to the department of
agriculture for the suggestions offered and
is distinctly heartening to the American
people for the trend it reveals. Farm con
ditions, though in no wise Utopian, are so
much better than they were .two or three
Decembers ago that the country may well
take courage for the oncoming year.
The Dollar Today
THE famed economist, Professor Irving
Fisher, of Yale, announces that last
week's prices averaged one hundred
and fifty-one per cent of the pre-war level.
A dollar is worth, in terms of its buying
power, sixty-six and two-tenths pre-war cents.
The world now looks back to the plenty
and peace of 1913 as to a far-off paradise
from which a flaming sword sent mankind I
packing. Yet, we can remember as if it 1
were but yesterday that for years prior to,
the catastrophe which broke upon that tran
quil time, we were protesting” against an
ever-mounting cost of living. A dollar then
would buy notably less than it Would a
decade before, and the burden of every po
litical song was “back to the good old days.”
But now, we fancy, if we could return to
the “high prices” of 1913, that “were para
dise enow.” So goes the world —andjiuman
nature.
QUIZ
Any Tri-Weekly Journal reader can
get the answer to any question puzzling
him by writing to The Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
kin director, Washington, D. C., and in
closing a two-cent stamp for return
postage. DO NOT SEND IT TO OUR
ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q- Cun you tell me whether drinking
water was brought from England for Papy
rus? R. .1. H.
A. The English race horse drank the
water while in this country, but the hay he
ate was brought from England.
-Q. How do ships obtain bearings from'
radio stations? W. M. H.
A. The radio division of the department
of commerce says that this may be done in
two ways; Radio compass stations are main
tained by <he navy department at various
points along the coast, and ships in the locali
ty of these stations signal to them asking for
bearings. On the either hand, there may be
directional receiving apparatus aboard ship,
and this apparatus can get bearings from
any coast station of which it knows the code
letters.
Q. How do cats make a purring sound?
A. L. H.
A. This sound Is made by throwing thjs
vocal cords into vibration measured and reg
ulated. by the respiration, and this vibration is
strong enough to make the whole larynx
tremble so that it may be felt or seen from
the outside.
Q. Is there a railroad trestle from" Florida
to Havana? M. H.
A. The railroad over the Florida Keys
does not extend to Cuba. It runs from the
mainland to the city of Key West, being car
ried across the keys and channels for a dis
tance of 100 miles by means of embankments
and viaducts.
Q. Is the German immigration quota full?
A. J. B. Z
A. The annual quota is 67,607. At the
present time 42,093 Germans have been ad
mitted. The English quota has already been
exhausted.
Q. Has Maine still great pine forests?
E. W.
A. The primeval forests of white pine
which gave the state the name of Pine Tree
State have nearly all disappeared, but the
second growth is being used to a large extent.
Spruce forests are the most extensive. Hem
lock, birch, balsam, fir, oak, maple, cedar,
yellow pine, beech, basswood, elm, ash and
others are also found in Maine.
Q. What flag rules Afghanistan? W. G.
A. Afghanistan is completely independent.
It is ruled by an hereditary prince.
Q. Has Yellowstone Park more geysers
than any other place has? R. N.
A. In this national park there are more
geysers than in all the rest of the world. It
also contains boiling springs, mud volcanoes,
petrified forests, a canyon remarkable for
gorgeous coloring, large lakes, waterfalls,
vast wilderness inhabited by deer, elk, bison,
moose, antelope, bear and mountain sheep.
It is the greatest wild bird and animal pre
serve in the world.
Q. How much poetry did Chaucer write?
E. T. H.
A. Chaucer left about 35,000 lines of verse.
Q. In yachting, what is meant by the ex
pression “tacking?” C. F. S.
A. Tacking means changing the course of
the yacht by shifting the position of its sails;
advancing toward the -wind's eye.
Q. How many clergymen are there in the
United States? C. S.
A. There are about 170,000 active mem
bers of the profession at present.
Q. Can an inventor devise an improvement
on a patented article, and patent that im
provement? J. H. G.
A. The Patent Office says it is impossible
for an inventor to make an improvement on
an article which has already been patented
and to take out a patent on his own idea
without the consent of the original patentee
. or assignees
FLOWING GOLD
BY REX BEACH
CHAPTER XXVII — Continued.
NEWS of the damage wrought by the re
cent storm was naturally of grave con
cern to Henry Nelson, but owing to
the fact that lines were down, about his only
source of information, during the days im
mediately following it, was the press reports.
He was reading the Dallas papers with in
terest one morning when his attention was
arrested by the name of Calvin Gray. Now
Gray's name in print affected the banker al
most as disagreeably as did a sight of the
man himself; therefore it was with intense
resentment that he read the article in which
it appeared. It was A vividly written ac
count of the former's experience during the
flood, and, due no doubt to Gray’s personal
touch, it read a good deal like fiction.
The next time Tom Parker came into the
bank Henry called him into his private of
fice and had a talk with him.
Old Tom listened silently; nevertheless, it
was plain that he was deeply shocked.
“I s’pose you ain't lyin’,” he said, coldly,
when the banker had finished.
“It’s a matter of record, Tom. He can't
deny it.”
“What was’it he did?”
“ ‘Conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman’ is the way the record stands.
That covers a lot.”
“Did he welch —quit under fire?”
“No.”
“Steal something?”
“No.”
“Woman scrape?”
“There was—a woman concerned. Pretty
nasty mess, Tom. He's the sort of man to
intrigue any foolish woman. Women can’t
see far.”
In great perturbation of spirit Tom con
sulted Judge Halloran.
The judge listened to him in astonish
ment; angrily he cried: “You and I will go
directly to the scoundrel, tell him we are
aware of his infamy, and order him out of
town. Ha! That’s the way to go about it;
cut deep and quickly. Tar and feathers are
too good for—”
“Trouble is,” Tom repeated, with a reluc
tant sigh, “I like him and I ain't sure—”
“The trouble is you're'a weakling!” Hal
loran snapped. "“You are a—sentimentalist.
You lack my stefn, uncompromising moral
fiber. Like him? Pah! What has that to
do with.it? I have no weakness, no bowels
of compassion. lam a Spartan. I am—”
“You're a'damned old fool—if you think
you can run him. He's liable to run you.”
If Calvin Gray’s affairs were in a pre
carious condition, he showed no signs of it
when he returned to Wichita Falls. On the
contrary, he was in an exultant mood; and
even on the train young Briskow, who ac
companied him, was amazed at the change
that had come over his friend. With every
mile they traveled Gray’s buoyancy increas
ed and upon his arrival he trod the street
to his office like a conqueror. McWade and
■Stoner, who came in conference with
minds preoccupied and faces grave, left with
a smile and a jest.
When they had gone, Gray rose,with relief
and surprised Buddy by saying: “That’s
enough for now, thank goodness? Business
is only one side of life, my boy. You are
going to make this city your home, so you
must begin by meeting the right people, the
influential people. Nicest people in the world
right here, Buddy; nicest place in the world,
too! ”
Now to a youth who, for months, had
been immured in the oil fields. Wichita
Falls did indeed resemble a city of marvel
ous portent. Pavements, large buildings,
bright lights, theaters—Buddy was thrilled.
Ho prepared himself for introduction to oil
operators, to men of finance sitting in marble
and mahogany offices; he made ready to step
forth into the big world.
Great was his astonishment, therefore,
when after a swift walk Gray turned into a
tiny frame insurance office on a side street.
Funny place to look for people of influence,
Buddy cogitated.
A girl was seated at a desk; she rose at
sight of Gray, and her face broke into a
smile. Her greeting was warm; her hand
lingered in his; for the moment neither of
them seemed to remember Buddy’s
presence. When » she did hear his
name, however. her face lightened
and she gave her hand to him as to
an old friend. When she smiled at him,
as she had smiled at his companion, Buddy
dropped his hat. He had never seen anyone
in the least like this creature and—she knew
Allie! She knew his mother! He had niiss
or her name, but ]\robably she owned that
Dallas department store, or was the mayor of
Wichita Falls. He had never before been so
embarrassed. x
Mr. Gray certainly was a wonderful man.
His poise, his air of respectful but easy fa
miliarity with this —this angel raised him
immensely in Buddy’s esteem. Think of jok
ing, chatting, making pretty speeches to an
• —an angel! That was going some. The
gall of it!
After a while, when the two men were
on the street again, Buddy inquired: “Who
is that young lady? I mean—her name?”
Gray told him, then with a friendly
twinkle: “Well, speak out! What do you
think of her?”
“Ob —Gee!” Buddy cried, breathlessly,
whereupon his companion laughed in perfect
satisfaction.
( ontinued Tuesday. Renew vour subscrip
tion now, so as not to miss an installment of
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
The golfer was just getting ready to drive
off at the first tee when all of a sudden he
paused in his swing and put his hand into
his pocket.
After fumbling about for a minute or two
he drew out a‘ handful of Coronas and, ap
proaching the caddie, he asked:
“Do you smoke, sonny?’’
The boy's eyes glistened as he noted the
fine cigars and with an eager smile he
answered:
I should just think I do, sir.”
“In that case,” said the golfer as he
walked away, “I think I'll carry them my
self.”
The old farmer was slowly but surely dy
ing. Lying in an apparently unconscious
state, he suddenly opened his eyes and ad
dressing his ancient spouse said: “Mary,
that ham smells very good. I almost think
I could eat some.” Whereat Diary dourly
replied: “Thee get on with the dyipg. That
ham is for the funeral.”
A young Scotswoman had just lost her
husband. It was a sore affliction and the
minister called to condole with her. He
found her in the kitchen enjoying a bpwl of
porridge.
“Ah, Janet,” said the good man, “ye have
met a sore affliction indeed. It is too bad,
too bad!”
“Aye, that it is, sir,” was the reply, “and
I greeted (wept)' over it all the night. I
just stopped long enough to eat my break
fast, and as soon as I’ve finished this bowl
of parritch I’m going to begin again!”
A whoop-it-up London newspaper publisher
was complaining one afternoaon that the day
had brought forth no news.
“Well,” said, a member of parliament who
happened to be calling, “you know the old
adage.”
“What old adage?”
“No news is good news.”
“Still,” declared the publisher, “it isn't
good enough to call for an extra.”
THE VAGARIES OF A GEORGIA LEGISLA
TURE
TO a stranger who looks in on a ses
sion of a general assembly in the state
capitol the scene must be disappoint
ing. if not grotesque.
These men (amt two lady members) are
supposed to be representatives, qualified and
selected for their “wisdom, justice and mod
eration.” There are more than one hundred
and sixty at present, with more a-coming,
when the subject matter can be brought be
fore the body. Every county has one mem
ber, a great many have two, and a consid
erable number have three. These belong in
the house. There are over fifty in the sen
ate, representing districts.
The payroll amounts to $2,500 each day.
The present general assembly is the second
held this year. For some inexplicable rea
son the governor did not get busy during
the regular summer session. He made an
address several times, but he confined his
real activities to making some appointments,
which remain entirely unexplainable at this
writing, and he saw the general assembly
piling in new bills and appropriating state
money with spendthrift recklessness, without
rebhke or even demur.
When the legislature quit because their
time was up, and nothing done, the governor
awoke to the fact that the people had ex
pected him to urge action on the demand of
Georgia voters, in 1922, to repeal the tax
equalization act and to reduce salaries, and
to stop making new offices.
With remarkable agility, under the exist
ing circumstances, he called a special ses
sion to repeal the tax equalization act in the
senate (because the house had already ac
complished that much) and to provide free
school books, as pledged.
These two things (as disclosed by Hon.
Mr. Dean, of Gainesville), had been pledged
to the late Senator Watson by Candidate
Clifford Walker to seebre the senator’s ac
tive support in the campaign of 1922. The
issue was direct, and plain, and emphatic.
The senate refused to consider either at
the regular session. From a lofty elevation
they looked down on the house. They de
clared they wouldn't consider until the leg
islature passed an income tax bill. The big
dogs snarled at the lesser dogs.
As it is well known, the legislature in tho
regular fifty-day session did absolutely noth
ing. because the senate blocked all bills
which originated in the house.
Likewise, it is recorded that the extra, or
special, session has passed but one bill, the
auditor bill, with more big salaries and, I am
informed, with an unequaled rush of appli-
I cants already for the salaries which will fol
low passage of the income tax bill. “The
senate which snarled at the regular session
not only, snarled but growled at the special
session. They spit at the house bills. They
strode majestically through the capitol build
ing,every one looking like a prizefighter who
could and would “eat ’em up” at one mouth
ful, if the house members did not tuck their
tails and retire to their o)vn dog house.
For six weeks this contemptible tableau
has been exhibited in the state capitol. The
flood of oratory has grown more audacious
and irritating. I am only a plain Georgia
woman, but I would, if a member of the
l house of representatives, vote to stay there
[.until Christmas eve before I ‘would recog
nize the authority of the senate body to
: plant its heels on the repeal of the malodor-
THANKSGIVERS AND
FAULT-FINDERS *
By Dr. Frank Crane
THERE are two classes of people in the
world: Thanksgivers and Fault find
ers.
Perhaps we all of us occasionally give
thanks and occasionally find fault but just
here reference is made to those who have
established a habit.
It is significant that in the United States
of America we have a national day of thanks
j giving.
We do not know of any other nation that
has established such a custom.
They all have days of prayer, periods of
protest, saints days, fast days and feast days
and most of them function rather regularly
in revolutions.
We speak a good deal of Americanism,
and by the term we understand many dif
ferent things. Some people take it to mean
extreme individuality, others understand it to
be loudness or vulgarity, or the worship of
the almighty dollar, or other unpleasant
things, such as Mr. Zangwill suggested.
But perhaps the most striking character
istic of the American is that he is not envi
' ous. That is another way of saying that he
is rather habitually thankful.
He is not contented. He is full of unrest
but he is not particularly afflicted with the
inferiority complex.
An American can get along rather com
fortably in his modest little thousand dollar
home and it does not give him any particu
lar gripes to see the five hundred thousand,
dollar home across the street.
The average American is thankful that
he is not in jail, does not have a cancer, his
wife hasn’t left him and he continues to
get three square meals a day.
'Of course we have our apostles of discon
tent and of protest but most of them are
European importations.
We have our stomach-ache literature and
our full quota of gloomspreaders, but they
are not in the majority.
For this reason the various forms of Com
munism, Socialism and Anarchy that flood
older countries do not take root very well
over here. Such plants need a good deal of
that fertilizer which is known as envy.
Even critics do not flourish very well
among us unless they are humorous enough
to amuse us. Just plain criticism that ob
jects to everything and hates everybody does
'not get very far.
Fault-finding is an ingrowing vice. It is
easy because it is childish. The very slight
est cerebration is sufficient to enable anyone
to complain.
So in spite of our crudensss and youth,
we can at least lay the flattering unction to
our souls that we are, for the most part, a
i thankful people.
One thing we are thankful for is that
I there are three thousand miles of turbulent
salt water that separates us from Europe.
Every once in a we may have to dip
into European affairs out we are not close
enough to be dragged in every day. We are
also far enough from the Orient to be able to
consider the Eastern problem with philoso
phy.
Most of us are struggling along trying to
make a living and a trifle more, enough at
least to buj* a ticket to the ball game.
There is no upper class sitting upon us and
consequently we do not have a very large
lower class beneath us raising Ned. We are
all very much the same.
We love to read about counts and dukes
and kings, and we crowd the streets to see
them when they come over here, but it is
the same feeling that prompts us to admire
a horned toad, or a purple cow, concerning
which the poet aptly remarked that he would
rather see than be one.
We may be, and probably are, egotists;
self satisfied to a certain degree; but at
least we are thinkful.
Also we are paying our debts, have some
money in the bank—occasionally shucking
i out a few million dollars to relieve some of
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923,
ous tax equalization act, to defy the demands
of the voters in two general elections and
to hold two sessions inside of five months to
continue the scheme which protects the “big
interests” and which heaps taxes without
limit on the plain common people of the
state of Georgia.
There are thousands of farms sold under
ri. fas. because the people could not make
sufficient on these farms to pay the onerous
taxation. These ft. fas. are the evidence of
two things: First, that the state has put
its iron hand on helpless landowners when
the owners were poverty-stricken, without
money to pay. Second, that every .land own
er thus evicted by state authority becomes
disfranchised and never can vote any more,
until he can raise money enough to pay all
back taxes and the taxes for the running
year, thus accumulated, and the fl. fas. bear
ing interest all the time to the state. Thia
disfranchisement becomes heinous, when the
boll weevil calamity is considered, as it
should be.
The United States made a donation to
Tokio, Japan, of ten millions on account of
a calamity caused by earthquake. Here m
Georgia poverty is penalized b.v the state,
and the poor people who have bought their
homes are likewise made serfs, because they
could not bring up tax money to pay the
enormous salaries of the enormous hordes of
salaried officials in the Empire State of the
South.
The day of reckoning will surely come.
Russia would be a safer place to. live in
than Georgia when the revolution starts in
this latitude. Russia would deal fairer with
the peasantry than is being done here among
us, if the tax gathering throttle you. Quot
ing from a speech made by Representative
Covington on the floor of the house last week,
while I sat near enough to listen. “It is get
ting to be fatiguing to see- the solons in such
sympathizing mood for the sake of the high
flyers who dance so gaily on Peachtree street
and who are so solicitous for the farmers in
Druid Hills.”
It is' not impossible that this year’s fl. fag.
will be sold at public outcry in the near fu
ture. I saw a letter last winter written by
a tax collector in a Georgia county, who
wrote to the comptroller general that he had
brought the lands, the farms, to the court
house door, and not a dollar was bid on the
property. He did not get a dollar to turn
over to the state.
Nobody with a soul in their bodies would
buy up such poverty-stricken homes of Geor
gia. The state will surely disfranchise every
single one who-could not pay. It is Scylla
or Charybdis.
These unhappy ones would not be allowed
to vote for even more responsive or wiser
representatives. They are debarred by state
laws from voting to turn out faithless legis
lators. The great Behemoths who rule in
the senate who will not vote out the tax
equalization act, as demanded by the. voters
of the state, can still congregate at will in
the state capitol, can still draw seven dollars
a day for regular and special sessions, can
still do the bidding of those who are keep
ing watch over big fortunes and are intent
on despoiling the small farmers and owners
of real estate to carry on the wasteful ex
penditures of an unwilling or ignorant state
administration. We are drifting into dan
gerous places. If we resist by violence we
will have civil war. If our courts and legis
latures can continue|to despoil the plain peo-
, pie, it is either anarchy or serfdom.
NATIONAL HEALTH WORK
By 11. Addington Bruce
A NSWERING a query as to the functions
21 of the Unitcd States Public Health
Service,! would begin by saying that
its primary purpose is the broadly general
one of lessening the occurrence of disease
throughout the country.
With this purpose in view the public
health service carries on most varied activi
ties, some quite independent of the health
conserving efforts of state and local organi
zations, others 'in. close co-operation with
these. z
When quarantine to prevent the entry of
disease from other countries is needed, the
maintaining of such quarantine is adminis
tered by the public health service. And it
assists in the maintaining of domestic quar
antine and the suppressing of epidemics of
disease in any state or group of states.
On request of any state, moreover, the
public health service stands ready to co-op
erate in special inefmires looking to the bet
ter safeguarding of the health of the peo
ple of that state or community in the state.
This whether it is a question of some emer
gency or a more general question of health
betterment. \
Thus, the health service has done much
valuable work in helping to free many lo
calities from malaria through ridding "them
of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. It has nota
bly assisted in plague prevention in various
sections of the country, particularly surveys
made by the public health service/ and
specific recommendations resulting there
from.
To its credit njnst also be put the lessen
ing of many evils menacing the health of
sundry classes in every community—such
as children, travelers, and industrial work
ers.
It has campaigned successfully against the
once prevalent but readily preventable
“blindness of the new-born,” it has promoted
the medical examination of school children,
and through child health demonstrations in
different states it has impressed on the pub
lic the great importance of child hygiene.
Travelers likewise have peculiar reason to
be grateful to the United States public
healtji service, if only because of its sys
tematic inspection of the sources of drink
ing supplies for railways and steamboats.
And if the traveler journeys to any of the
great western national parks he will find
the sanitation of their hotels and camps
under the direct supervision of the health
service.
In behalf of the industrial workers this
same public health service continually
labors, through research and education, to
lessen occupational hazards. Research into
the causes of disease is, indeed, one of its
outstanding activities, and it has made
some splendid contributions to medical
knowledge.
To give a single instance, the mystery
surrounding the dread disease of pellagra
remained a mystery until, a few years ago,
United States public health service workers
demonstrated its cause in a faulty diet. All
the while the service has investigators en
gaged in studying one, or another problem
of disease, observing, experimenting and re
porting.
It maintains hospitals of its own, has
workers abroad as well as in the United
States, and through its bulletins serves as
a clearing-house for health information. Os
all this beneficent endeavor the public is
too little aware, with the result of a gen
eral under-appreciation of what is really one
of the most useful departments in the Amer
ican federal system.
(Copyright, 1923.)
the victims of foreign misrule, or save a lot
of children that the militarists of other coun
tries have threatened with starvation—and
are altogether getting along very well, Thank
you.
/Copyright, 1923.) I
r
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
What has gone before. — Althea Cros
by inherits a fortune on condition that
she marry before she is thirty-five. She
falls In love with handsome young Dr.
Peter Graham and marries him without
telling hiin about the condition in the
will. Eventually he hears gossips dis
cussing it and assumes she married him
to get possession -of the fortune. He be
comes cool and she assumes he married ♦
her for her money. She becomes very •
jealous of her husband’s attention to
Mrs. Ruth Williams, a wealthy patient.
Althea meets Kenneth Moore and his
gayety attracts her. In a jealous rage,
Althea orders Mabel Howard, nurse and
secretary, to leave Dr.-« Graham's office.
He sends for this efficient helper and
asks her to resume her duties. — Now go
on with the story.
CHAPTER XXXI
((NTO, Dr. Graham. lam a poor girl,
I like my work here and I would
like to stay-—you have been very
good to me—but unless Mrs. Graham apolo
gizes for what she did I cannot-come back.
I have my pride, too.” Mabel Howard looked
with distressed eyes into Peter Graham’s ♦
face. *
Peter was in no gentle mood. The physi
cian who had telephoned in his absence,
whose message Althea had not mentioned
because she had hot understood it, had tele
phoned again, finding fault, saying the mat- ,
ter was urgent. Then Miss Howard’s un- *
qualified refusal at first to return, then con
senting to do so .only if Althea apologized,
had frayed her nerves to the breaking point.
“Please wait here,” he said to the nurse,
and went up to Althea.
“I'll never apologize to her—never!” Al
thea declared after listening in silence to his
plea. “If you must have a nurse I’ll find
you one. I thought perhaps you would let
me—like me—to take care of things for you.
I used to work, it won’t hurt me to work
again.”
“That’s absolutely out of the question.”
He tried to be patient, he told her of the
mistake she had made with the physician’s
message, impressed upon her that his prac
tice now was such that a trained nurse was
indispensable. But again she refused to hu- /
iniliate herself by making an apology.
At his wits end, Peter grew angry. He
didnt’ ask, lie demanded an Apology. But
it was one immovable body meeting another
just as immovable.
If he insisted upon a nurse, refused to
let her help him, she would start out at once
and find him one. But she would Insist upon
her right as his wife to say who should be
in her household. x
“Very well.’\ His voice was shjtYp, in
cisive. '“You have insulted a good girl by
your insinuations. You have insulted me. I
shall take an office at once in another build
ing. There are several new buildings that
cater to physicians. I shall not interfere with
your household arrangements further.” He
turned away. ,
“You don't mean that, Peter! You
wouldn’t do that!” Such a move never had
occurred to her. He would be away from >
her altogether then, she would see nothing
of him. The thought was agony. *
“I certainly do mean it. I shall make ar
langements at once—today—to move.”
“And take Miss Howard back?”
‘ ) es. She is efficient, capable and knows
my ways. There is no reason why I should
be discommoded by breaking in another *
nurse.” He turned to go. a
She couldn’t let him leave the house, have
an office elsewhere. It would be agony to
her to know she wasn’t to see him except
at meals, not to hear his voice, not to know
he was where she could speak to him'if she
wished. And she couldn’t apologize to the
girl! Yet—
“ Wait, Peter!” He was surprised at the
passion in her voice. “Won’t you stay hero
if I ask it—let Miss Howard go?”
I have said all I have to say on the sub
ject. I am very busy. You'll excuse me
now.” \
“And you won’t do as I ask?” Her voice
pleaded but he turned away impatiently.
“I 11—apologize.” Her voice was so low
and husky he scarcely heard. He stepped to f
the head df the stairs. He called:
“Miss Howard, will you come up here a
moment?” , ,
She came into the room, white but com
posed.
“It was as Dr. Graham told you, a mis
understanding, Miss Howard—l—”
“Don’t say any more, Mrs. Graham. I felt
sure it was. Yet until I knew it from you
I could not return.” .
She left the room, followed at once by
Peter.
“I hate you!” Althea exclaimed between
set teetyh. “I hate you! And some day I’ll
get even!”
Neither she nor Peter referred again to
the incident but neither of them forgot it.
Each looking upon it from a different angle,
in a different spirit.
So consistently had Althea avoided Mabel • )
Howard that she had no conception of the r
girl’s real character. Neither did Althea
realize her kindness in accepting the few
words with which she had greeted her aa
an apology, her refusal to let her say 'more.
She was obsessed with the idea that Peter
must care for the girl even' while she be
lieved he was also fascinated with Mrs. Wil
liams. That he would move his office rather ‘
than give Miss Howard up was to Althea »
proof positive.
Because she loved Peter, thought him de
sirable, she could not imagine any woman
being where he was and not caring for him.
And because he did not love her, his wife, h®
would be the more vulnerable to their’at
tacks, their fascinations. z She was angry
with herself for having been so impulsive,
for not more tactfully getting rid of Miss
Howard.
Perhaps later she could think of some
way to get her out of the house without
angering Peter.
Continued Tuesday. Renew your subscript
tion now, so as not to miss a chapter of thi«
absorbing story.
Wi FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb ’ /
“Speaking of Wallace Irwin’s Japanese *
Schoolboy,” said a San Francisco newspaper
man, reminds me of our cook. My wife went
into the kitchen one morning and asked our
Jap what we were going to have for break
fast.
“ ‘Hash, my darling’ he replied very 1
solemnly.
“My wife explained that h’e had made a
mistake in his English, but he was perfect
ly positive that he had been taught this
phrase at school. Next day be brought her his
song book and triumphantly showed her this
heading:
“ ‘Hush, My Darling, Go to Sleep.’ ’«
(Copyright, 1923.)
ABE MARTIN SAYS ’
Th’ newspapers have a lot t’ say about Mr.' i
Hershey, who’s dedicated $60,000,000 fer
th’ education o’ children, bein’ born on a
farm, but they don’t say when he left th’
farm. Next t’ locatin’ a pilfered Ford, we’d
say th’ next hardest thing would be runnin*
down a stolen saxophone.
.(Copyright, 1923.)'