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1 A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be saved. He
that bclieveth on Him is not condemned;
but he that believeth not is condemned al
ready. . . . And this is the condemna
tion, that light is come into the world
and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil. For every
one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light lest his deeds should
be reproved. But he that doeth truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds may
be manifest, that they are wrought of
God.—The Gospel of John 3:17-21.
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. ’Just Among Ourselves
A SPELL in a hospital this summer, to
gether with the run of summer vaca
' tions which impose extra work on
those still on the job, caused the temporary
dropping out of this little familiar chat.
But now that Fall is here and everybody
in the office is in good health and keyed up
for a winter of hard work, “Just Among
Ourselves’’ will appear from time to time,
so long as our readers desire It.
It furnishes a little place where we can
talk over In friendly manner things that are
of mutual Interest.
Friday’s mail brought in Iho following,
which we take to be the finest sort of com
pliment we ever received:
» “An? enclosing money order for $1 for
one year's subscription to the only paper I
know of that publishes the news of the day
without the filth.
“Sonic way you manage to give us a clear
idea of what has happened and still get out
a paper that is really fit to be brought into
the home.
“W. 11. WISNER,
“65 K-Road, Westwood, N. J.”
We try hard to deserve such words, and
to get such comment from our friends
makes us try all the harder.
We wish It were possible to eliminate all
crime reports from our columns. Unfortu
nately, that cannot be done. Murders and
.Criminal violence are Important news: the
L . i
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own protection as much as anything else.
But we do try to stick to the facts and to
avoid doing what so many newspapers seem
to do—that is, revel in the horrible details
and gloat over the nasty facts.
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A young lady at Chamblee, Ga., writes to
ask:
“Is it true that Henry Ford is going to
give away a Ford to every girl under 17
years of age who is unmarried and has long
hair? If so, kindly send him my name.’’
No, 'my dear, Henry Ford is not giving
away anything, so far as you might notice.
He is doing as he has been for years, sell-
Ing good automobiles and good tractors at
low prices, paying high wages, ploughing his
profits back Into his tremendous business,
thus avoiding in a legitimate way the pay
ment of a lot of taxes, and accumulating the
greatest individual fortune known in the
history of the world. But Henry is not giv
ing away anything, least’of all to maidens
1 with long tresses, except a lot of advice,
much of which is good, but some of which
is bad.
One fd the things about him that is past
understanding is the attacks on co-opera
| tive mwketing that have appeared in his
j paper. the Standard Oil company
are the greatest examples in the business
world of the benefits of large scale market
ing of a standardized product, and that
Ford should attack co-operative marketing,
just because a Jew happens to have* drawn
th* contract oir y hich most of the co-oj?cr*-
ly and cheerfuly see
that things are made
right.
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fives in the South operate, is a strange
thing, indeed.
For, these co-operatives plans to do with
cotton, tobacco, peanuts and other products
just what Ford’s company does with auto
mobiles and w'Jiat the great oil companies
do with oil and gasoline.
How does the price of cotton strike you
farmers? Are you going to make much
money when middling is worth only a little
over 20 cents?
The speculators and gamblers are out
gunning for the co-operatives again. Don't
let them deceive you about the associations.
They and their henchmen will talk you into
breaking your contracts If they can; they
will fill you full of al sorts of fase reports
lif you listen, for they are trying to take ad
vantage of the hard price year everybody
had in the cotton trade last season, and run
the co-operatives out of business.
Probably they can’t do that, but they can
make it mighty hard on your association’s
management if many of you fall for the lies
and insinuations that are being spread.
If you want the truth, write to your as
sociation and | ask about the things that
bother you. You will be told frankly what
is what, and the chances are you will be
completely satisfied by the answer you get.
Perhaps you didn’t get as high a price
last year as you thought you would get.
But before you complain about that, stop
and decide whether or not you and your
neighbors kept your end of the contract.
Ask yourself if you delivered all you agreed
to deliver, at the time your cotton was
ginned. If you did, what about your neigh
bor members? Did they do that? Did you
make it your duty to see that they did?
Thq- co-operatives got an average price
last year, but they might have done much
better except for one thing. Most of them
got in more cotton after January 1 than be
fore that date.
Thousands of members held out their cot
ton when the price was 37 cents, Intending
ot sell when it got to 40. But when it
dropped to 27 cents they turned it over to
the association.
It takes a man who would do that sort of
trick to make the most noise against the
association when if couldn’t average over 30
cents.
Stand by your association and it will do
the work for you.
But If a sufficient number of you mem
bers knife your association, stab it in the
back, sell your cotton against its cotton,
and thus betray It to its enemies for twenty
pieces of silver, then you are going to
wreck it.
And you will be able to go back to the.
old plan of taking what somebody is willing
to offer.
It’s up to you.
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
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ATLANTA OFFICE*
Q. What American soldier executed the
etching of the resting place of France's
Nameless Hero which has lately been pur
chased by the Luxembourg Museum 9 A. B.
A. This striking etching of the Arc de Tri
omphe in Paris, with the figure of a solitary
woman bowed over the tomb of France's
Unknown Soldier, is the work of A. C. Webb,
of Nashville, Tenn., a former A. E.. F.
second lieutenant. Its purchase by the
Musee de Luxembourg, Paris, was an unusual
distinction to be accorded a foreign artist.
Q. Is the cotton boll weevil a menace of
comparatively recent times? S. S. H.
A. It was originally Mexican, having been
found around MonclovaJ state of Coahuila,
Mexico, where as early as 1856 to 1862 it
did such damage that cotton growing there
was abandoned. In 1885 the boll weevil
crossed the Texas border into the United
States. It encroached steadily from year to
year until, in 1922, it infested practically the
entire cotton-growing region of the United
States. The only extensive uninfested ter
ritory lies in and northwest Texas.
Q. Does the cedar of Lebanon grow In this
country? W. S.
A. It is hardy In the United States only
in the south and in California. England has
some noble specimens that were planted
there in the
Q. Are there any figures to show how
much more water is used in this country
than in Europe? K. S. B.
A. Comparisons may be made of the per
capita consumption of water in American
and European cities, which, given in gallons
per 24-hour day, is as follows for these
cities: Nsw York, 110; Brooklyn, 99; Balti
more, 164; Louisville, 91; Cleveland. 176;
Cincinnati, 137; Milwaukee, 136; Buffalo,
257; Salt Lake City, 220; Los Angeles. 144;
Paris, 65; Hamburg, 44; London, 39; Liver
pool, 38; Amsterdam. 37: Copenhagen, 27;
Dresden, 26, and Berlin, 22.
Q. What is the deepest dive on record?
D. E. C.
A. The diving record for depth and en
| duranefe was made by Ed Harrison, depth 58
i feet; under water 3 minutes, 48 seconds.
Q. How much money is spent in advertis
ing in a year in this country? W. G. J.
A. Experts say there is no way of knowing
definitely what advertising expenditures total
l in any given period. Estimates for 1923
rangq from $550,000.000 to $1,000,000,000.
Q. What is the size of the throat of
; a whale? H. 11.
A. The blue whale, the largest animal
alive today, reaching a length in excess of
| eighty feet with a mouth so large that ten
: to twelve men could stand therein, has a
throat but about eight inches in diameter.
| This is fine of the whalebone whales, all
of whicff feed upon minute crustaceans,
especially the little red shrimp which is
about, three-quarters of an inch long. As
much as four barrels of this shrimp have
been found in the stomach of a blue whale,
| which even then was not full.
Q. Are Johns Hopkins university and
Johns Hopkins hospital the same institu
tion? N. K.
A. They are separate institutions found
led and endowed by Johns Hopkins. Johns
Hopkins Medical school is part of the uni
versity and is closely allied with the hos
pital. The total gift for these institutions
was more than $7,00 0,000.
Q. Please give Babe Ruth's height,
weight, and age. E. R.
A. He is thirty years old. 6 feet 2
THE SECOND MRS. STRONG
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
(’ll A PTE II I
A Prodigal Daughter
ryx HE door of the library led into the
I large entrance hall. From where he
was sitting, Matthew Strong could see
the outer door, massive with carved wood
and tiny leaded panels of glass. The hall
light filtered through an ornate Chinese
lantern, so that the entrance was flooded
with a dim radiance. It was very quiet in
the house.
At seven, when he had returned from
the office, he had asked immediately so?
Claudia, only to be told that she had gone
out. No one seemed to know where, and
inasmuch as the girl was only seventeen,
and had been running about lately with the
gay younger set, Matthew was worried
about her.
The grandfather clock in the library
struck one, a single, deep, sonorous stroke.
Matthew stirred in his chair, reached for a
fresh cigar and lighted it, and then re
sumed his thoughts.
The situation he was facing was grimly
amusing. For a father to be sitting up for
his daughter was enlightening to say the
least. It reflected on the feverish trend of
the times, and of late Claudia seemed to
be drifting away from him. He had no in
fluence over her at all. Last week when'
he had spoken to her about keeping late
hours she had defied him. She had been
flippant, a little hard, very smart and highly
polished, and yet so appallingly young that
there had been a certain pathos about her.
Tonight Matthew was resolved to have it
out with her, to assert his authority, and
ever since his solitary dinner he had been
waiting in the library, trying to read, smok
ing endless cigars and growing more Impa
tient and worried each minute.
The clock struck two, and as the echo
died away Matthew was suddenly conscious
that a motorcar was stopping in front of the
house. A moment later there were steps
on the porch, followed by the click of the
key in the lock. The door swung inward,
and there came a mumble of voices, fol
lowed by a silence that seemed interminable.
Matthew’s fingers clenched on the arms of
his chair as he waited, and then at last
Claudia appeared.
She closed the door very softly and leaned
against it for a moment. Then with great
deliberation she stooped and unfastened the
straps of her silver slippers. A moment
later she was tiptoeing across the hall to
ward the stairs.
“Claudia!” Matthew’s voice was suddenly
sharp.
The girl started, wavered uncertainly, and
then turned toward him. Her evening cloak
sagged off one shoulder, her bobbed hair
stood out wildly about her small face. She
met his eyes defiantly, her own very bright,
and as Matthew put out his hand to draw
her into the library, he caught the unmis
takable odor of liquor on her breath.
“You’ve been drinking!”
Claudia laughed, and the sound was
shrill, unnatural.
“Why, dad, you sound as though you’d
been reading a temperance tract. ‘You’ve
been drinking,’ ” she minced impertinently.
“I had a couple of sips out of Eddie’s flask,
but not enough to hurt me.”
“Who is Eddie?”
“Eddie * Montgomery. He brought me
home.”
“Home from where?”
“Oh, a crowd of us went out to Silver
Springs. There's a pfeach of a roadhouse
there, and we had some slick dances. That’s
all.”
“Oh, so that’s all!” Matthew drew a long
breath as he spoke. “I warned you last
week, Claudia, and I meant what I said.
You are too young for this kind of thing. I
won’t have you coming in at two in the
morning with the information that you’ve
been sipping drinks from men’s flasks. It’s
disgusting. I should think you’d be ashamed
of yourself. Hand over that key. In the
future, you’ll come home from parties at a
decent hour or I’ll know the reason why!”
CHAPTER II
Choosing a Wife
MATTHEW’S edict had brought forth
a storm of sobs from his daughter.
“You can’t treat me like this,”
she had cried. “I won’t have it. Things
aren’t the same as they were when you were
young. All the other girls do as they like,
and I’m not going to be treated as if I
were in kindergarten. You can put me un
der lock and key if you like, but you can’t
! keep me there. You’ll see.” And it was
| with this threat that she had gone sobbing
I up to bed, and Matthew had returned to his
vigil in the library.
j Matthew Strong was thirty-eight and for
the last six years he had been a widower.
Robert, his son, was now twelve, and Clau
dia was seventeen. But while Robert was
not such a problem, due to the fact that
he spent his winters in school and his sum
mers in camp, Claudia needed some one to
guide her, some one to keep a restraining
hand upon her, and to some extent limit her
freedom. Os late, Matthew had thought of
marrying again, and until the night of the
Bradley dinner party, he had thought se
riously" of Margaret Davenport.
In away Margaret charmed him. There
was something about her soft curves and
languid manner that challenged his senses.
He had pictured her sitting opposite him at
breakfast, waiting for him at night when he
returned from the office tired and in need
of relaxation. And then on the night of
the Bradley dinner party he had seen her in
I a new light. »
[ During dinner she had had enough wine
Ito loosen her tongue, and her voice had
become loud and shrill. Matthew with covert
: eyes fixed on her face had seen it flushed
and slightly coarse, and afterward, she and
several of the other women had danced in
away that was anything but dignified.
Matthew had been standing at the end of
| the room with two other men when one of
them turned to him with! a short laugh.
i “There’s not much difference between the
, dancing of the younger set and the per
j formance of their elders,” he had said, and
i his eyes rested on Margaret as he spoke.”
Matthew's eyes followed those of the
j other man. and a surge of disgust rose up
jin him. Margaret was, thirty-two and still
. unmarried. There was something about the
. way she was dancing with Richard Under-
I wood, an eligible bachelor, that made Mat
j thew feel that she was angling for him, de
liberately playing up her charms so as to
j ensnare him. Was this the kind of woman
lie wanted as a wife? Was this the kind of
woman to bring home as a mother to
Claudia? And yet Margaret belonged to the
right social set. She had breeding and cul
ture. Had the whole world gone mad. that
women of Margaret’s type could so lower
their -pride as to behave this way before
other people?
Later Matthew had asked' Margaret to
dance with him. She had pressed close
| against him, lifting her face so that her
breath fanned his ear. Matthew had felt
; that he was merely another eligible in the
! matrimonial market, and tonight as he sat
in the library, he realized that the Bradley
dinner party had put an end to his thoughts
of Margaret as a possible wife. No. he want
rd sort 0 onp lio could woman
who was depend ble and ' n st
in his home that would bp to him what Miss
was in his office. And then sud-
EASY LESSONS FROM HARD CASES
*T* HE Chicago lawyer who sought to ex
j tenuate the crime of Leopold and Loeb,
and thereby reduce the penalty for the
horrible murder committed by these young
monsters, left nothing unsaid or undone to
save them from the gallows.
Much that he said in his appeal to the
judge who presided in the case was worse
than worthless—well calculated to Incite
other hardened youths to commit similar
crimes.
But some tilings said by him are worthy of
the most careful consideration by both par
ents and publishers, and by all who are con
cerned for good morals and social order.
Among other things, he remarked, “Loeb
was a child of wealth and opportunity. Now
courts over and over have considered the
chance of the child of the streets, and have
done it rightfully. But wealth has its mis
fortunes in too much opportunity given to
the child, and I ask Your Honor to consider
the rich as as the poor.”
All this is undoubtedly true. It does not
follow from it that Loeb should not be pun
ished to the full extent of the law for a crime
utterly without excuse or extenuation; but it
does convey a much needed lefeson to both
| rich and poor.
i Great wealth is a perilous possession to
| both the parents who have It and the children
who are indulged by it.
► It brings to parents distractions, if nothing
worse, which cause them to neglect parental
duties and to live in a self-indulgent manner
that is a hurtful example to their offspring.
Fathers, who in the years of struggle pos
sessed little of worldly goods, erected and
maintained their family altars, spent many
happy hours in the company of their children,
and attended the worship of their churches
with delight and regularity, have been known
to live quite differently after acquiring
wealth. Then social functions and worldly
diversions displaced family worship; home
life, with its sweet companionships, gave way
to money-making in the day and pleasure
seeking in the night; and church services
were rarely attended and still less enjoyed.
In short, paganism prevailed where Chris
tianity was previously influential.
What followed in such cases with the chil
dren? They were indulged excessively until
self-will supplanted all self-denial in their
lives—and that meant self-destruction.
The attorney in this repulsive case in Chi
cago uncovered just such conditions in the
life of Loeb. He said: “Here was a boy
placed early in life in the hands* of a gov
erness. He was fed on facts as a plant is
forced in a hothouse. He had no chance for
play except through lying and cheating. He
read detective stories, on the sly. Every
story he read was a story of crime.”
Where were his parents during all these
impressionable years? What were they do
ing? They were enjoying their wealth, as
enjoyment is understood by such people.
Now they are suffering the agonies of sorrow
and shame brought to them by a son whom
they neglected, in order that they might
“enjoy themselves.” Thus wealth has cursed
the parents as well as ruined the child.
The attorney spoke most truly -when he
said, “We have grown to think it a misfor
tune not to have money. Jij.it the terrible
misfortune in this terrible case is that they
had it. That destroyed their lives rind
brought us here. Wealth unlimited is a ter
rible misfortune in every step of life.”
Another loss which wealth brought to both
parents and son in this case was that of los
ing the wholesome associations of plain, good
people who were the friends of their early
years, and of contracting relations of friend
ship with the giddy and godless sons and
daughters of luxury. One of the greatest
dangers which beset the opulent arises from
the flocking to tb°m of flatterers who fawn
on them for what they can get out of them.
Wise are the words of the Hebrew psalmist:
i “Be thou not afraid when one is made rich,
j when the glory of his house is increased; for
; when he dieth he shall carry nothing away;
his glory shall not descend after hjm. Though
while he lived he blessed his soul; and men
will praise thee, when thou doest well to thy
self.” (Psalms xlix:l6-18.) And that syco
phantic praise of the prosperous misleads
them. It causes both themselves and their
children to conceive a delusive sense of self
importance, which leads them to a self-cen
tered type of life which is ruinous.
When these two young scapegraces entered
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
The man who was born to be hanged may
escape by,way of the electric chair.
Many a man who has made a failure of
■ everything else Imagines he is a success as
! a husband.
Never*judge a man’s worth by the amount
he has to pay in a hroaeh-of-promise suit.
The truly good man is never known as
; a “good fellow.”
Some marriages mean war and some mean
an armed truce.
Where there’s a will there are always one
j or more lawyers.
He’s a poor dentist who is unable to get
to the root of the matter.
Free church seats might be appreciated
! more if they were less uncomfortable.
Window-cleaners’ ladders must be rubber
; set in Hull, England, to prevent their
, slipping.
When a woman loses all Interest in fash
ions it is up to the undertaker to get busy.
Little green apples provide more business
for the undertaker than broken hearts.
The most curious thing in the world is a
I woman who has no curiosity.
Somtimes a man pretends to be fooled
for the purpose of fooling the other fellow.
Travel often broadens a man’s mind—
also his stomach, if he can afford to stop
at a first-class hotel.
More things will come to the man who
labors than to the one who sits down and
waits.
A New York chap the other day tried to
mortgage his automobile to make a payment
on h!s house. He was sent to Belleville
psychopathic ward for observation. —Saginaw
News-Courier. >
denly as the thought of Miss Benton crept
into his mind, he curiously enough went on
thinking about her.
She was the most efficient stenographer
he had ever had. She was in addition to
being efficient, faithful, loyal and self
effacing. For two years she had worked
in his office, and yet even now, he hardlv
knew what she looked like. Try as he would
he cQuld not conjure 4tp her features, and
as he realized this, a smile crossed his face,
and he resolved to look carefully at Miss
Benton the next day so as to determine for
himself what type of woman she really was.
Thursday—“ Julie Benton” and “An Imita
, tion.”
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1021.
college their self-centered souls speedily j
•flhbraced the self-deifying philosophy of i
Nietzsche, without advice of parents or the I
counsel of instructors. Upon this point the j
attorney for the defendants spoke as follows: 1
“Here is a boy of 16 or 17 becoming oh- !
sessed of these books, idolizing the superman, [
which was the center of the Idolatry of I
Nietzsche. Babe believed that a superman i
might become an actuality. The philosophy i
which was never intended to he applied in !
life. He and Dickie Loeb were the supermen. I
“And here we have an adolescent boy,
swallowing whole a system of philosophy
which is itself a species of insanity.
“His own doctrine made Nietzsche a ma
niac.
.“And now here Is a 16-year-old hoy, who j
takes that philosophy; it becomes, his life. ■
And then, surrounded by everything that this’
world had to offer, facing the prospect of
every promise that the world could hold out !
for him, wealth and position; intellect, yes,
genius; he went out to commit this weird,
wild, mad act.
“I have said, as to Loeh, that if any one is
to blame, it is hack of him. I know that all
life is an infinite series of chances, which
sometimes turn out one way and sometimes
another. I know that'in the infinite universe
everything has a place, and that the smallest
particle of life affects all other life.
“Is any one to blame that Leopold took
Nietzsche seriously and fastened his life on
it? The university is more to blame than he
is. The scholars of the world and the pub
lishers of the world are more responsible
than he.”
Here is an awful wreckage of young life
largely because neither the parents nor the
teachers of these boys took any care for what
was read and studied by them. This ruinous
course of carelessness was followed probably
out of regard for “freedom of thought” and
“academic liberty.” Those phrases are the
cant ot the scholastic paganism of our times.
They feed the conceit of the young and pro
mote the boasted “revolt of youth.”
An immature boy is less capable of choos
ing proper food for his mind than he is qual
ified to prescribe suitable diet for his body.
He might as well enter a drug store and take
any drugs that might appeal to his eye or
his palate as to enter school and select the
subjects for his study. The unlimited elective
system is immeasurable folly.
In the course of the court proceedings in
the case of Loeb and Leopold, their lawyer
contended that their intellects were normal,
hut their emotions were deranged, and that
thus they were the victims of “mind sick
ness,” and experts supported with testimony
this contention. Perhaps there is much in
this view.
But what deranged their emotions?
The emotions which respond to moral and
religious truth were never given a particle of
nourishment or a moment of exercise.« The
sensibilities which were fed on detective
stories and Nietzsche’s philosophy were bound
to be deranged.
These boys did not lack strong feeling,
but they constantly indulged vicious feeling.
Thus every good emotion was into
somnolence and every bad emotion was stim
ulated into the most reckless and criminal
activity.
The lesson of this is as plain as it is im
portant.
The sensibilities must receive proper cul
ture and direction as well as the Intellect.
Lawless feelings easily run riotously over
' reason and conscience. Every day brings
i before us examples of wanton sensibilities,
given full rein, and running their victims to
ruin.
Solomon, who is reputed to have been ths
wisest man that ever lived, said: “Keep thy
heart with all diligence; for out of it are the
issues of life.” (Proverbs iv:23.)
But he did not obey his own wise exhorta
tion. His licentious sensibilities sought and
secured every sort of gratification, and all his
wisdom of mind was unable to save him from
the tragic consequences which followed his
disordered heart.
Wealthy and wise, he brought up in self
indulgence a son, Rehoboam by name, who
went further from God and deeper into sin
in the indulgence of lawless desires and wan
ton emotions.
Sad as is the case of Loeb and Leopold, it
will be worth much if both parents and chil
dren in our country learn and lay to heart
the easy lessons taught by these two hard
[young lives.
| TO BE PERSUASIVE
By H. Addington Bruce
tttHAT a tremendous pity it is that the
V y importance of persuasiveness as an
aid to success is as yet fully appreci
ated by comparatively few people.
Not salesmen only but workers in every
occupation need In more or less degree to
bring other people to their way of thinking.
Persuading others, winning Ihe good-will of
others,- they prosper. Failing to persuade,
theib progress lags, when It does not cease al
together.
Which would seem to be a truism so ob
vious as not to call for statement. Yet the
fact is, as observation daily shows, that mul
titudes seem to think they can entirely dis
pense with persuasiveness.
Even salesmen themselves, the workers
who above all others depend for results on
“the explanatory and persuasive tongue,”
often fall into this error.
There are some salesmen who, Instead of
sedulously seeking to persuade, argue with
and perhaps go so far as to hector prospec
tive customers.
Since argument tends only to create oppo
sition, such salesmen do not as w rule get
very far. As a rule, in fact, they soon cease
to be salesmen. • -
So with those salesmen —and preachers
and politicians and all others directly de
pendent on oral persuasiveness—who, while
they refrain from hectoring, weary and con
fuse and irritate by burdening their dis
course with a mass of irrelevant detail.
To persuade through speech is to know
precisely what one wants to say and say it in
away that will be appealingly intelligible to
the one to whom it is said. How many are
those who make it a point to think out and
construct their pleas according to this prin
ciple?
And, of course, persuasiveness involves
much besides oral tact and skill.
Some of the most persuasive of people are
persons who say exceptionally little. They ;
persuade, not by speech but by the unfailing
courtesy and kindliness of their manner, the
fidelity and willingness with which they ren
der service, and, above all, by their sincerity.
It has been well said that to be sincere is
the only sure way to be persuasive in the
long run. Only a little reflection is needed
to bring out the full force of this.
A glib but hypocritical speaker may be
persuasive for a time. But soon or late his
hypocrisy will give such a curiou< color or
atmosphere to his whole personality that he
can no longer attract and influence ethers
as be once did.
“Whereas the sincere speaker—and the sin
cere worker in every vocation —will little by
little, even if somewhat deficient in speech
nr in workmanship, compel an increasingly
favorable attention that reacts <o his great
r
MOVIE MAD.
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
CHAPTER LI
Vera’s Little Gaine
TO SAY that Verai was angry at her ob
vious dismissal is to put it rather mildly,
for she was furious. But she was also
clever and, as it has been said before, pm
sessed of unlimited nerve. Her ability to
take punishment as the phrase goes, had
landed her in the movies, and kept her there
in spite of the fact that she had little besides
her looks to recommend her. She was afraid
of nothing, and in her early days had been
willing to double for several actresses when
dangerous stunts were required. J his train
ingvhad made her very,sure of herself, and.lt
was with the utmost self-possession that
walked in upon Rolf the next afternoon. This
time she found him alone, and when at tea
time several other people arrived it was \ era
who poured the tea and played the hostess.
After this, she made a point of dropping in
to see Rolf every day, and before the week
was out she had accomplished her ( purpose.
People were talking about her, coupling her
name with Rolf’s. It was the entering wedge.
Gloria was treated to an exaggerated ac
count of the newest scandal and in, her pres
ent state of mind she was easily convinced.
Rolf and Vera! Well, It might as well be Vera
as any one else in the colony, and yet it
seemed incongruous to think of Rolf caring
for a girl of Vera’s type. Somehow she could
not think of him as the conceited, arrogant
man she had once known. His illness had
changed her opinion of him. The fight for
his life haji brought them very close. And
yet, he didn’t really care in spite of what he
had said. His feeling for her had been no
more than thwarted desire. He had wanted
her merely because he couldn’t have her.
One morning befora Gloria was dressed
Vivyan burst in upon her. , «•
"Gloria, I’m goijig to ask you a plain ques
tion,” she began impetuously. “Are you go
ing to hand Rolf over to Vera Vamp? She
seems determined to get him, and I for one
can’t understand your attitude. I’ve kept
still about matters between you and Rolf un
til I can't stand it any ’ logger. Is it true
that you are going to get a divorce?”
"I’m not handing Rolf over to any one,?
Gloria said evenly, after a long moment. "He's
perfectly free to do as he likes with his life,
and if he wants Vera I suppose he’ll have
her.”
"If he wants Vera!” Vivyan repeated scorn
fully. “That isn’t the point. Vera wants
him. Sho needs » boost with the public, and
she thinks she can get it through Rolf, that'3
all.”
"Well,” Gloria returned impulsivdy, "that’s 1
! why I married him. Poor Rolf/ he seems
fated to serve as a stepping stone, doesn't
he?” Her tone was flippant.
"But you didn’t need a stepping stone,”
Vivyan persisted. "You would have made j
good anyway; in fact, you did.”
“But I didn’t know that until it was too
late,” Gloria went on. "Now you know the
truth, Vivyan, and you can see what a fool
I have been.” i
"That’s all right. You may not have loved j
Rolf when you married him, but you love
him now, and he loves you.”
Gloria shook her head. "You’re all wrong,
Vivyan. Rolf doesn't love me.”
"Then you admit that you love him.”
"I didn’t say that.”
"But you do love him. I know you do.
Why, you were half frantic when no one
thought he was going to live, and now yon
Calmly propose handing him over to a girl
like Vera Vamp. I’m surprised at you,
Gloria. I thought you had more backbone
than that. If I loved him, I’d fight for him,
whether he loved me or not.”
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THE ART OF GOVERNMENT '
By Dr. Frank Crane
( ( TIE art of arts is the art of fcovern-
I ment,” runs an old saying.
For several thousand years this art
has been followed. Progress in it has been
small. k '
The king of England knows not much more
about it than the king of Nineveh knew.
The superiority of the l|ing of England
consists, not in his better knowledge of gov- I
erning buX in the fact that he does not gov
ern people at all, but lets them govern them
selves.
The truth that Is emerging, after centuries
of experiment, is that there is no such thing
as "the art of governing.”
Not the wisest man in the world, not the
best, strongest and noblest man, incompetent
to govern Hie people. The responsibility of
rule can justly rest only upon tho shoulders
of the people themselves. No man was ever
created who Is fit to be trusted with that
burden.
The governing class idea is also fiction.
Thinkers ot yesterday were fond of saying
that the best element ought to govern the
populace. Thinkers of today have discovered
that this will not work. No class, just as no
individual, is worthy to bo intrusted with
rule.
There is only one body qualified to rule, -
and that is the entire body politic."'
To be sure, every quack and pettifogger
prates of his love for "the pepul.” Every
criminal trust and every venal politician
boasts of its and his subserviency to the
dear people. But don't let that decelye
you. They wouldn’t all lay claim to a
thing that is not good irf Itself.
The fact is that the people, the whole
people, are wiser than any one man or class,
have more common sense, more courage, more
prudence, and better morals.
\\ e are learning that "great men” ’are not
the roots of popular progress, but the flower.
Shakespeare was the crest of the wave. Luther
was one who would have been unknown with
out the many injured by the same ideas.
"No single man,” is the much-quoted say
ing of Schiller, “can vie with the individual
Athenian for the prize of manhood.” To be
sure; yet though we produce no finer indi
viduals we have a better society, the harmony
of whose existence "does not depend upon the
employment of slaves, upon eunuchs, and the
seclusion of women.”
“The world,” said Dr. Martin' Luther,
ruled by God through a few heroes and pre
eminent persons.” Which is a clerir statement
of what is not true.
For the world is ruled by itself. The
progress pf government is toward eliminating
the leader, toward emphasizing the masses.
We are natural hero-worshipers, because
we naturally personify forces, in order to
understand th r m, by making them simpler.
But who ever would grasp the meaning of
the twentieth century* should study not kings
and noted men, but the commons.
The people, their level is rising everywhere,
to submerge all peaks.
gain. “Here is a man we can trust,” will
be the verdief.
And, above all others, the trustworthy ara
the persuasive.
• (Copyright, 1924.)