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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit that we are the children of God;
' and if children, then heirs; .heirs of God
and joint heirs of Christ, if so be that we
suffer with Him that we may be also gio- j
rifled together. For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us; for the
earnest expectation of the creature waiteth
for the manifestation of the sons of God.
—The Eighth Chapter of- Paul's Letter to
the Romans, 16-19.
i
Democracy and the Taxpayer
O.UT of approximately sixty-eight thou
sand Georgians who make federal in
come tax returns, sixty-seven thou
sand, six hundred and ninety-five will re
| ceive larger reductions under the Democratic
tax measure, which was enacted last spring
with the aid of independent Republicans,
than they would have obtained under the
so-called Mellon plan, which President Cool
idge did his utmost to force through Con
gress; while only twenty-four Georgians
would have received larger reductions under
the Mellon plan than under the Democratic
bill. This fact, which may easily be verified
by reference to the official records, serves
to show how great a gulf there is between
i; the present Administration and the believers
in truly popular government. The one would
| place the heaviest burden of taxation on the
earned incomes of th.e rank and file; the
K other would see to it that while none is
taxed unjustly, there should be reasonable
regard for the truth, “Unto whomsoever
much is given, of him shall much be re
quired.”
'The Mellon plan, to which President
•Coolidge was so wedded that he once tacitly j
B threatened to veto any substitues which
should not follow its main lines, was quite
If' characteristic of Republican tax methods. In
his first official stateemnt concerning tax
| revision, Secretary Mellon recommended
rates which would have lightened the load
of only those taxpayers whose annual in
comes were sixty-six thousand dollars or
more. When asked by members of the
House ways and means committee what
could be done for the relief of those whose
incomes were less than sixty-six thousand
dollars a year, the Secretary had nothing to
suggest. When asked further what should
be done to compensate the treasury for the
revenue which would be lost through the
- cut in taxes on the larger incomes, he pro
posed to double the existing rates on docu
mentary stamp taxes, to place a two-cent
I stamp tax on every bank check regardless
B of whether it should be for one dollar Ar for
H one million, to increase the f. -st-class post
al age rate from two cents to throe cents and
the rate of post cards from one cent to two
Jr cents; and to levy a license tax of ten dol
lars on all motor vehicles, from the lowliest
flivver to the lordliest limousine, 'hese sug
gestions, which would have added some
three hundred million dollars to the taxes
of the people and have allowed reductions
on no incomes less than sixty-six thousand
dollars, were not followed. But they re
vealed Mainly enough the trend of the Ad
ministration's thought "id furnished the ba
sis in principle upon which Secretary Mel
lon's plan, so hotly contested at the last
session of Congress, was constructed.
It was the opposition of Democrats, rein
forced by insurgent Republicans, which de
feated that illiberal plan; and it was the
•initiative of Democrats, supported by insur
gent Republicans, which produced the Gar
ner-Simmons bill, finally enacted despite
■ President Coolidge's protest. Under the
Garner-Sinimons measure, as we have s . id.
sixty-seven thousand, six hundred and n ne-
THE ATLANTA T!l! WKKKLY JOURNAL
i; Georgians will receive more benefit in
the way of income tax relief than they
would have obtained under the Administra
tion plan; whereas only twenty-four would
have fared better under the Administration
plan. This is true in principle of all the
States. In Alabama forty-two thousand,
nine hundred and eighty-four income tax
payers will be benefited by the Democratic,
more than they would have been by the
Republican plan, whereas only twenty-five
would have found the Republican plan more
to their advantage. In Florida the figures
are 42,235, against 14; in Tennessee, 60,-
930 against 19; in North Carolina, 44,123
against 38; in South Carolina, 25,154
against 6. Passing from the Southeast to the
the larger centers of population and wealth,
one finds the same principle in yet more
striking illustration. In New York 1,064,587
citizens make income tax returns are
helped by the Democratic mere than the.v
would have been by the Republican rates,
while the cases in which the reverse would
have been true number 2,050. So, too, in
New Jersey, where the figures are 268,822
against 27.4; and in Pennsylvania, where
they are 620,270 against 833. So in New'
England, so in the Middle West and the
Southwest, so from the Great Lakes to the
Rockies and beyond. The Garner-Sinimons,
that is the Democratic, measure of federal
income taxation, relieves 6,656,067 Ameri
cans more than the Republican Administra
tion’s plan would have relieved them; while
only 6,109 would have beeh more benefited
by the Administratin’s plan.
The meaning of the record is clear. Pres
ident Coolidge and his chief counselors are
looking after the interests of a fortunate
few; Democracy is most concerned for the
welfare of the rank and file, most desirous
that all should receive justice and therefore
unwilling that any should receive discrimi
natory favors. To Democracy it is that w T e
owe the reduction in this year's payment of
income taxes and the further relief vouch
safed for 1925. To the party of Woodrow
Wilson and of John W. Davis we owe the
law which treats the common rights of six
million citizens as being of more ; mporAnce
than the special privileges of six thousand.
Good sense and due regard for American
principles bid us give that party the indorse
ment it so well has earned and the support
it so abundantly deserves. Let us back it
with our dollars now and with our votes on
November the fourth.
THE TONIC OF SUCCESS
By H. Addington Bruce
rpy HE maxim, “Nothing succeeds like suc
| cess,” is of far greater significance
than is generally appreciated. In es
pecial it is a mixim that parents and school
authorities ought to keep in mind for the
good of the growing generation.
'lts significance springs from the fact that
whenever one succeeds in anything there is
both an augmenting of one’s confidence to
succeed in future undertakings, and a feel
ing of pleasure that in itself contributes
appreciably to future success.
“Every pleasurable feeling,” to put it In
psychological terms, “stimulates the psycho
physical organism in all parts. The energy
level is raised, and the mental and bodily
processes function more effectively.”
When, on the opposite, feelings the re
verse of pleasurable are experienced, there is
a lowering of the energy level. Not to suc
ceed tends, of course, to engender feelings
the reverse of pleasurable. Hence it may
truly be said that just as “Nothing succeeds
like success,” so “Nothing fails like failure.”
Dy no means always do parents and school
authorities apply these truths for the benefit
of the young.
Their proper application means, on the
one hand, frequent affording to children of
opportunities, suited to their age and abil
ity, of profiting from the tonic of success.
And. on the other hand, it means prudent
avoiding of tasks quite beyond children s
powers.
In neither of these respects is sufficient
care always exercised.
There are many parents so foolishly so
licitous for their little ones that they long
continue to do for them things that the
children should early be doing for them
selves. Thus they unduly postpone the
granting to their children. o£ success-gaining
occasions. There are other parents who, by
making impossible demands of their chil
dren, force upon them early and often a con
sciousness of failure.
A similar mistake is again and again
made in our schools. To quote hi this con
nection a recent statement by one of the
best known of American psychiatrists, Dr.
Bernard Glueck:
“One of the outstanding virtues of the
contribution of psychometry (intelligence
measuring) lies in the opportunity it offers
for a more precise definition of what a par
ticular child is capable of doing, so that he
may not be exposed to tasks that are be
yond him.
“Unfortunately, in the actual organization
of educational establishments, both public
and private, sufficient heed is not being
paid to this, and large numbers of dull
normal children are being constantly put lip
against a rigid and inflexible curriculum
which is bound to make for chronic failure
and to call forth attitudes and notions that
are quite destructive to the child affected.”
Were a different policy adopted—as, hap
pily,* it already is being adopted In some
schools—and tasks fitted to the child so
that he will be sure to gain in some meas
ure the tonic of success, it Is safe to predict
that many children otherwise fated to be
perpetual failures would be so stimulated
as to go through life satisfactorily. Though
here, as always, there must also be cu-oper
ation from the home.
Certainly there are in the world today
’countless men and women who needlessly
live below their possibilities because during
childhood, in school or home, or in both
school and home, they were denied the
tonic of success and forced to drain the
bitter cup of failure.-
(Copyright. 1924.)
‘•Tommy,” said the teacher, “if coal Is
selling at $lO a ton and you pay the dealer
S4O. how much coal will he bring you?”
Tommy thought it over; then he said:
“A little over three tons.”
“Oh. that's not right.” the teacher told
him. "No. ma'am,” answered Tommy, “1
know it isn't right, but they all do it.”
The Second Mrs. Strong
BYHAZEL DEY D B X CIIE LG R
CH APTER N X IN
After the Dafice
FOR the first time in her life Claudia
ceased thinking about herself long
enough to give her thoughts over to
i another person. Never before had any one
treated her with the scant ceremony that
i Harris Fiske had. Never before had any one
dared to snatch at her that way and kiss her
J against her will.
But had it been against her will? Hadn’t
she unconsciously yielded to the clasp of his
arms, the fierceness of his kisses? Her
I cheeks burned at the recollection of them,
i and she wanted to be alone to live over
i those brief moments.
Seated in Eddie Montgomery’s car, she was
very silent. Eddie seemed so young, so
j like a cub, compared with Harris Fiske. She
I wondered why she had played about with
him for so long, and she was dimly con-
I'scious of the fact that he was, perhaps,
i thinking that she cared for him more than
ishe did.
“What’s the matter, Claud?” he shouted,
i above the roar of the engine. “You’re worse
than the proverbial clam tonight.”
I She shrugged her shoulders irritably and
j did not answer} and a lew moments later, ’
, when they stood in th.e shadowy dusk of the
i wide veranda, she pulled back when he
I would have taken her in his arms.
“Well, of course, if you don’t want to kiss
; me good-night, you needn’t,” he said sulkily,
i “I never forced my attentions on any girl.”
i Claudia was suddenly roused. She mustn’t
j antagonize Eddie. He was the most eligible
of any of the boys in the crowd and he had
; the best looking car.
“I’m tired, Eddie,” she' said, forcing a note
iof contrition into her voice. “I’ve had a
nasty headache all evening.”
Instantly he was responsive.
“I’m sorry, Claud. Well, a good night’s
i rest will fix you up all right. See you to
morrow.” And, with a light caress on 1 her
arm, he was springing down the steps and
' out to his waiting car.
Claudia wanted to go directly to her
| room; but she realized that she had made
up her mind to speak to her father about
Julie. She wanted to mention the fact that
> Julie was seeing a great deal of Bradford
Pierce, and the fact that Pierce had not been
! at the country club that evening was a point
! in her favor.
Wearily she dragged her steps to the 11-
I brary, and when, about fifteen minutes later,
her father came in, she knew, with her
'• usual shrewd intuition, that he had been
seeing Margaret Davenport home.
He came in briskly, went to the table and
took a cigar from the humidor, and a mo
ment later was stretching himself out in his
I favorite easy chair.
I ( laudia regarded him for a few moments
without speaking. He was wrapped in his
I own thoughts and seemed hardly - aware of
; her presence.
. “Dad,” she said, after a moment.
He started and turned toward her. “What
■ are you doing here, Claudia? Don’t you
houng people ever sleep? Bettor run up to
bed now or you’ll be tired in the morning.”
I “I wanted to speak to you.”
“Well, what is it?”
“Why didn’t you take Julie to the club
I tonight?”
' A dull flush spread over Matthew’s face.
I “Your mother doesn't care for such things.”
■ Dad, you may not like my saying this
but havfryou thought that Julie may be see
, ing too much of Bradford Pierce? You
know it isn t as if she were one of our own
crowd, and'she’s apt to take a great deal
, for granted because of the attention he’s
paying her. Os course, I know ho means
: only to be kind, but Julie may misunder
■ stand.”
CHAPTER XXX
Claudia’s Little Game
MATTHEW'S response to Claudia’s in
sidious suggestion was instantaneous,
j Claudia, what are you saying?
I Don’t be ridiculous. Such an idea is utterly
i absurd, and you have no right to even think
i such a thing.”
i < “Perhaps not, dad,” she said quickly.
| “But I couldn't help noticing that Bradford
j Pierce was not at the club tonight and I
! wondered.”
I “But he was at the club, I saw him.”
“Only for a short while. Thon he left
i and didn’t return.”
Yell, that has nothing to do with the
subject in hand. Better go to bed now and
■ don't bother with things that don't concern
. you.”
Claudia, summarily dismissed, rose lan
guidly, and with a short ' good-night, left
J tlie loom. Matthew, his eyes following the
•slim but well-developed figure of his daugh
| ter, was vaguely troubled. Sometimes Clau
i dia worried him. She seemed so much older
: than she was, and he knew so little of what
I was going on in her‘mind. If Julie had
been different she and Claudia might have
grown to be frriends, and it would have
i been possible for her to discover what he
never had. As it was. he knew nothing of
: what went on in Claudia's mind. Ho did
not even know what she did. or anything
! about her friends. Os course, she played
around a lot with young Eddie Montgomery,
but then he was all right, of. good people,
j and if Claudia married him she could hardly
! do better.
His thought leaped from Claudia to Julie,
and just as Claudia had known it would
happen, he began io ponder on the subject
;of Julie and Bradford Pierce. Os course,
the thing was utterly ridiculous. Brad, good
old chap, was one of his best friends. Fur-j
i thermore, he was merely being kind to Julie, I
he felt sorry for her, and having noticed •
I how things were going, he was showing his
friendship, that was all. As if he couldn’t
trust Brad' Why, they had been together!
in college and there had never been such an
honorable friend. Claudia, like most girls*
of her age, had a wild imagination; she read
things into a situation that were no-t there
at all. But as he went on thinking, Mat
thew began to turn the thought of Julie
over and over in his mind. ->
He could trust Brad, but could he trust
Julie? What had Claudia said about Julie
not being one of them? That was it. She
came from the commonest kind of people.
Common blood ran in her veins, and even
with the slight veneer she had managed to
acquire, there was no reason for him to sup- 1
i pose that her instincts were not one with
j those of her terrible family.
Suppose Julie came to believe that Brad
cared for her? Suppose she led Brad on?
■ After all. in spite of honor and tradition, a
man was only a man. If Julie encouraged
i him, if Brad came to know that she cared
■ for him, anything might happen. There
. might be a scandal, and Julie might think
■ herself justified in creating a scandal merely
i because of the fact that he, Matthew, had
' neglected her. She might plead tha - as a
1 reason. The fact that he had avoided tak
ing her to the club tonight was a case in
■ point.
Quite suddenly Matthew was ashamed of
himself. After all. he had no right to think
such thoughts of Julie. She had never given”
I him cause for anything of that kind* He
would put the whole thing out of his mind;
• he must not a low himself to become sus
picious.’ It was degrading, sordid.
Shrugging hi; shoulders as if to dismiss
the entire situation from his thoughts, he
actually succeeded in relegating the thing to
his subconscious mind. It was then that he
found himself remembering Margar . Sim
had been lovely tonight and she had p’Ynl
shown her preference for him. Tim me: t
• ory of her was pleasant, and over the last.
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP H z . A. CANDLER
I’ERY ERSIOX \XD SUB) ERSION OF
NATIONAL GOY ERN.MENT
* NY government is denatured, and a
Z-\ sense destroyed,. when it is put to
uses which it was not designed to
serve. Such a process tends to divert it
from the'ends it ought to fulfill and devotes
it to purposes foreign to true functions.
This pernicious tendency with respect to
the federal government is now perilously
prevalent, among the people of the United
States. The force of the national govern
ment is invoked and applied to a constantly
increasing number of matters that do not
concern it.
The sphere of the federal government is
limited by the constitution to such things as
are of a general nature and which no sepa
rate state could care for as well as they
could be cared for by all the states in union.
The establishment of naval and military
developments for the defense of the nation
properly belongs to the federal government.
So also to it appertains the function of
providing for a national currency of uniform
value and as stable as possible.
Likewise the making and enforcement of
treaties with foreign powers.
The exercise of such prerogatives is as
necessary for cue preservation of the states
as it is indispensable to the perpetuity of
the union.
But the attempt to use the federal gov
ernment for many other objects is as de
structive to the union as it is damaging and
dangerous to the states.
Among these misuses of the national gov
ernment was the establishment of the “Unit
ed States Children’s Bureau,” which is run
ning rapidly to mischievous meddlesomeness
in a field in which federal power was never
designed to operate.
This bureau was established in 1913, and
the report of the committee of the senate
recommending the passage of the bill for
its establishment carefully restricted the
area of its operations as follows:
“The bill is not designed to encroach on
the rights nor relieve the states from the
duty of dealing with the subject, but to fur
nish information to enable them more suc
cessfully to deal with it. It was the opinion
of the committee that the duty devolved pri
marily upon the states to legislate upon this
most important subject and the states can
more effectively deal with it. But it seemed
to the committee that there was a duty u’pon
the part of the national government to aid
in getting such information and data with a
view of assisting in the work, and that the
national government could get such informa
tion and data more effectively than the re
spective states.”
In keeping with this recommendation of
the committee of the senate, the bill as
passed limited the bureau to making investi
gations and’ reporting upon all matters per
taining to the welfare of children and child
life among all classes of our people, and
shall especially investigate the question of
infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanages,
juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupa
tions, accidents, diseases of children, em
ployment and legislation affecting children
in the several states and territories.
For these specified purposes of the bu
reau, the congress appropriated the sum of
$30,000.
But the establishment of the “Children’s
Bureau” did not stop with such a carefully
guarded plan to be executed with so small
an appropriation. Its proponents never in
tended it should.
One of its most active advocates said at
the time the bill was passed by which this
bureau was set up by congress, “We shall
not be willing to let the establishment of
the Children's Bureau mean simply investi
gation—it must mean power to change
things.” And this expressed purpose has
been rapidly carried out.
With the expansion of the bureau has
been brought forth the so-called “Maternity
Bill,” which has been justly characterized
as “a bill to authorize a board of spinsters
to control maternity and teach the mothers
of the United States how to raise babies.”
The annual appropriation to the bureau is
now $300,000, with power to distribute and
supervise the spending of $1,000,000 more
through agencies operated jointly with those
.states that consent to part with their sover
eigny for a share of the appropriation.
Thus in less than a dozen years a little
bureau, professdly set up for purpose of in
vestigation and information, has advanced
to a point at which it exercises most ex
traordinary and unconstitutional authority
and secures large funds from the federal
treasury that constantly grows larger.
This bureau is now backing what is called
the “National Education Bill,” which, if
passed, would lead inevitably to the federal-
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. How were bases first indicated on a
baseball field? A. E. S.
A. Bases were first indicated by posts
standing four feet high.
Q. Why is the female mosquito the only
one that stings? And is it a fact that a
mosquito stings but once and then dies?
E. A. P.
A. The mouth of the male mosquito is
not equipped to enable it to suck blood.
Contrary to popular belief, mosquitoes do
bite more than once.
Q. Why does a feather fall as .-.fast as
lead in a vacuum? T. B. K.
A. The principal of gravity applies equal-1
ly to all objects irrespective of weight. The ■
resistance of air is the force which varies !
the velocity of a falling body.
Q. Are two words ever synonyms?
W. R. T.
A. Strictly speaking, there are'no perfect
synonyms, that is, no two words which ex- 1
actly agree in sense and use. There are, '
however, many words in English which have
meanings so closely akin that they are care
lessly used without discrimination.
Q. What per cent of the population of
New York City is Jewish? S. C. W.
A. New York has more Jews than any
other city, having a total of 1,643,01)0 and i
forming 29 per cent of the total population.
Q. What kind of rifles were used during ;
the Civil war? E. A.
A. There were approximately 100 differ
ent makes of muzzle-loading army rifles of
the percussion type used. The following
makes were popular at that time: Spring
field. Sharps, Hall, Snyders. Josslyn, and
Scotts. The British furnished many other j
types to the Confederate States. By the '
year 1870 the breech rifle had taken the
place of the old muzzle-loading army rifle. [
Q. What flag is meant by the “Red Dus
’ter?” O. O. B.
A. This term is familiarly applied by
sailors to the British merchant fla:.. It is
a r d flag with the British Union Jack in '
the upper left-hand corner.
of his cigar he gave his thoughts up utterly
to the woman he should have married and
S.c r. ’ii : “An Invitation to Tea.” an<’
“\t Harris Fiske’s.” Renew yonr subscrip
tion now to avoid missing a chapter. i
DJV, OCTODER 192 4.
t ization of the public schools, with all the :
I enormous evils and wretched invasion of the) j
; liberty of the people which that would mean. |
In furtherance of the passage of this bad
i bill, the “Federal Bureau of Education” and I
the “Children's Bureau” are co-operating, or
;; conspiring most intimately and actively. And
they are supported by the “National Educa- I
i tional Association.” With such a combina
tion very effective lobbying is more than |
probable, and the average member of the :
federal Senate and House of Representatives I
is very much afraid of such compactly or-1
. ganized bodies.
These same forces are allied for the adop
; lion of the “Child Labor Amendment” to
; the Federal Constitution. They secured its
! passage by the Congress, but they are not
■> finding it quite so easy to control the legis-
I latures of the states. In Louisiana, Georgia
j and the Carolinas the amendment has been
. | defeated, and if the people of the country
! were awake to its nature and consequences
' it would be rejected by all the states.
It is a scheme of most dangerous centrali
zation. It not only invades the sovereignty
' of the states, but it also curtails the liber
ties of the people bv the extension of the
: authority and. power of me national gov«
; ernment over their dearest rights and most
’ sacred interests.
Commenting upon this Twentieth amend
ment to the Constitution, the editor of that
ably-conducted paper, “The Presbyterian”
' (Philadelphia), says:
“There is a growing bolshevistic tendency
■ to conceive the people as existing for the
- government instead of the government exist-
- ing for the people. At present this is true,
; especially of the legislative department. This
• proposed Twentieth Amendment is a bold
stroke in this direction. It puts the power
in the hands of Congress to control local
■ interests of the people which has never be-
• fore been attempted in the history of our
> nation. The question of labor is not one
which affects the child life of this nation in
l any general way.. It is wholly local and con
; fined to certain communities and industries.
■ There is abundant local legislation to reach
- these local cases and prevent oppression, and
to make them subject to the direct actions
-of the national government would be to pro
; duce oppression and curtail liberty.
“This proposed amendment strikes at a
sacred institution, established by the Crea
tor, namely, the family. The effect and pur
pose of this amendment is to take the care
of, provision for, and training of children
‘ away from the family and place it in the
• coarser hands of the state. This is bol-
■ shevism, and the bolshevists approve this
proposed amendment. The state is too stiff
' and too mechanical an instrument to care
;l for children, and their proper rearing. The
business of the state is to defend the family,
not suppress it. If in any particular case
parents should develop the unnatural dispo
sition which would abuse, neglect or injure
•the children, there are already sufficient
local statutes to protect them.”
Another strong objection to, the proposed
I amendment made by “The Presbyterian ’ is
i as follows:
“The proposed amendment is a strike at.
■! the dignity and value of labor. Man was
’■ not made to play, but to work. Play is to
; work what lubrication is to machinery. It
; accomplishes nothing in itself. It only fits
the man to accomplish things through labor.
Labor is one of the chief agencies in the de
velopment and. education of man. ‘The man
who will not work shall not eat,J says the
Scriptures. The man who will not work
can not achieve. The Creator placed man in
the world’ with faculties for labor, and com
' manded him to subdue it and hold domina-
■ tion over it. This is one of the marked dis-
■ J ferences between man and the lower ani
: hials. They work but little and occasionally.
The commandment to man is, ‘S.i.x days shalt
; thou labor and do all thy work.’ But how
could it be possible for a human being to
: learn to labor and acquire this disposition
; ■ to work who by the national constitution or
; statistics is prohibited from laboring and
learning to labor until he is eighteen years
; old, a period at which the habits and pro
l pensities of life are already determined?
; The boy who has not worked and learned to
: work before he is eighteen years of age will
- never learn it, and he will become a para
site on society, and a degenerate in his own
> life. Nothing could be more destructive of
• society than to prevent labor or encourage
[ idleness through youth.”
This whole group of measures —the “Chil
dren's Bureau,” the “Maternity Bill,” the
“National Education Bill,” and the “Child
Labor Amendment” —is a' bundle of bolshev
ism. They all propose as real a subversion
and perversion of the federal government
-1 as would an armed rebellion.
! STAND BY
By Dr. Frank Crane
a BOUT all we can do is to Stand By.
L\ We cannot ref*ly do anything for
■ anybody, even for those we love most,
except to Stand By.
Your child has to make his own mistakes,
i accumulate his own working store of expe
rience, glimpse his own visions, fight his
j own inner battles, and find his own God.
| We may yearn to do these things for him..
'We may break our hearts trying. We can
not do it. But we can Stand By».
That is, we can arrange circumstances,
i provide advantages, warn him of dangers,
show him the right goals, love him, and
1 be a friend to him, but in the arena where
manhood is made he will have to do his
own wrestling.
Your final good to your friends consists
I only in this —that' you Stand By. It is not
j money, nor food, nor medicine they want, in
the deep souls of them, but to feel ynur
i presence.
In ita grip with the inner Philistines of
; life, in the war with the Hivites, the Jebu
j sites, and the Perizzites, the soul is always
1 alone, must keep its own watch, strike its
own blows, see its own visions. All we can
I do is to signal them, from our own watch
tower, the message, “I’m with you.”
i This comes poignantly home to us when
one we love is ill. We can watch and we
can play, we can hold her hand and stroke
her brow, while the physician fights the
j vicious microbes. But—though we may long
ro throttle the fever with angry hands, to
reach in and cleanse the clogged veins, or
set the jangling nerves in tune, we cannot —
i we can only Stand By.
Even when the last redoubt of life Is
stormed, and our beloved stumbles in the
last ditch, and death triumphs, we are how
pitiably helpless! She must go alone into
that thick darkness while we Stand By.
And yet how good it is to know you are
Standing By! After all, my friend, it is
what I most ask of you.
“This world,” says Goeth, “Is so waste
and empty, when we figure but towns and
■ cities and rivers in it, but to know that
i some one is living on with us, even in si
lence; this makes our earthly ball a peo
pled garden.”
When the little boy is afraid of the dark
in his bedroom you can go in and hold his !
■’and; it seeme nothing; it is the richest
gift you can make him, the gift of yourself.
And when in maturer days we are plunged
into the hell of failure, God bless the friend
' who just—Stands By!
The glory of a woman is that when up
come the wolves of poverty, slander, or
nger. and our souls melt in fear, she,
smiling and unafraid—Stands By.
j (.Copyright, 1924.) [
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
(Published by Arrangement With First, National Pictures,
Ine. Copyrighted by Houghton-Mifflin Company.)
CH A PTER \ 11— (Continued)
Master Lionel looked confused, a
look which Sir John entirely misun
derstood and interpreted entirely in
the young man's favor. And it was thus
and in that moment that w&s sown me
generous seed of the friendship that was to
spring up between these two men, its roots
fertilized by Sir John’s pity that one so gen
tle-natured, so honest, and so upright should
be cursed with so villainous a brother.
“I see, I see,” he said. And he sighed.
“You know that we are daily expecting an
order from the Queen to her' justices to
take the action which hitherto they have
refused against your—against Sir Olivas*”
He frowned thoughtfully,
“D’ye think Sir Oliver had news of this?”
At once Master Lionel saw the drift o*
what was in the other’s mind.
“I know it,” he replied. “Myself I bore
it him. But why do you ask?”
“Does it not help us perhaps to under
stand and explain Sir Oliver's disappear
ance? God lack! Surely, knowing that, he
were a foot to have tarried hare, for he
would hang beyond all doubt did he stay
for the coming of her grace’s messengers.”
“My God!” said Lionel, staring. “You—•
you think he is fled, then?”
Sir John shrugged.
“What else is to be thought?”
Lionel hung his head.
“What else, indeed?” said he, and took
his leave like a man overwrought, as indeed
he was. He had never considered that so
obvious a conclusion must follow upon his
work so fully to explain the happening and
to set at rest any doubt concerning it.
He returned to Penarrow, anti bluntly
told Nicholas what Sir John suspected and
what he feared must be the true reason of
Sir Oliver's disappearance. The servant,
however, was none so easy to convince.
“But do ee believe that he done it?” cried
Nicholas. “Do ee believe it, Master Lionel?”
There was‘reproach amounting to horror
in the servant's voice.
“God help me, what else can I believe,
now that he is fled?”
Nicholas sidled up to him with tightened
lips. He set two gnarled fingers on the
young man's arm.
“He’m not fled, Master Lionel,” he an
nounced with grim impressiveness. “He’m
never a turntail. Sir Oliver he don't fear
neither man nor devil, and if so be him
had killed Master Godolphin, he’d never ha’
denied it. Don’t ee believe Sir John Killi
grew. Sir John ever hated he.”
But in all that countryside the servant
was the only one to hold this* view. If a
doubt had lingered anywhere of Sir Oliver's
guilt that doubt was now dispelled by this
flight of his before the approach of the
expected orders from the Queen.
Later that day came Captain Leigh to
Penarrow inquiring for Sir Oliver.
Nicholas brought word of his presence and
his inquiry to Master Lionel, who hade him
be admitted.
The thick-set little seaman rolled in on
his bowed legs, and leered at his < employer
when they were alone.
“He’s snug and safe aboard,” he an
nounced. “The thing were done as clean as
peeling an apple, and as quiet.”
“Why did you ask for him?” quoth Mas
ter Lionel.
“Why?” Jasper leered again. “My busi
ness was with him. There was some talk
between us of him going a voyage with me.
I’ve heard the gossip over at Smithick. This
will fit in with it.” He laid that finger of
his to his nose. “Trust me to help a sound
tale along. ’Twere a clumsy business to
come here asking for you, sir. Ye'll know
now how to account for my visit.”
Lionel paid him the price agreed and dis
missed him upon receiving the assurance
that the Swallow would put to sea upon the
next tide.
When it became known that Sir Oliver
had been in treaty with Master Leigh for a
passage overseas, and that it was but on
that account that Master Leigh had tarried
in that haven, even Nicholas began to doubt.
Gradually Lionel recovered his tranquil
lity as the days flowed on. What was done
was done, and, in any case, being now be
yond recall, there was no profit, in repining.
He never knew how fortune aided him, as
fortune will sometimes aid a villain. • The
royal poursuivants arrived some six days
later, and Master Baine was the recipient
of a curt summons to render himself to
London, there to account for his breach of
trust in having refused to perform his
sworn duty. Had Sir Andrew Flack but
survived the chill that had carried him off
a month ago, Master Justice Baine would
have made short work of the accusation
lodged against him.
As it. was, when he urged the positive
knowledge he possessed, and told them how
he made the examination to which Sir Oliver
had voluntarily submitted, his single word
carried no, slightest, conviction. Not for a
moment was it supposed that this was
aught but the subterfuge of one who had
been lax in his duty and who sought to save
himself from the consequences of that lax
ity. And the fact that he cited as his fel
low-witness a gentleman now deceased but
served to confirm his judges in this opinion.
He was deposed from his office and sub
jected to a heavy fine, and there the matter
ended, for the hue and cry that was afoot
entirely failed to discover any trace of the
missing Sir Oliver.
For Master Lionel a new existence set in
from that day. Looked upon as one in dan
ger of suffering for his brother’s sins, the
country-side determined to help him as far
as possible to bear his burden. Great stress
was laid upon the fact that after all he
was no more than Sir Oliver’s half-brother;
some there were who would have carried
their kindness to the lengths of suggesting
that perhaps he was not even that, and that
it was but natural that Ralph Tressilian’S
second wife should have repaid her hus
band in kind for his outrageous infidelities.
This movement of sympathy was led by
Sir John Killigrew, and it. spread in sn rapid
and marked a manner that very soon Master
Lionel was almost persuaded that it was no
more than he deserved, and he began to
sun himself in the favor of a countryside
that hitherto had shown little but hostility
for men of the Tressilian blood.
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An FAVORITE STORIES
By living S. Cobb
THE TIE THAT BINDS
A YOUTH wrote from New Bedford to a
A-X new England press club seeking admis
sion as a member. As a main qualifi
cation he stated that he was connected with
the Springfield Republican.
When his name came up for balloting, one
of the directors remembered it.
“Hold on before you take a vote on this
chap,” he said. “I know him slightly. He's
a clerk in a summer resort hotel. As far S 9
I recall, he never did any active newspaper
work.”
So the corresponding secretary was in
structed to write the applicant for more par
ticulars.
“In what way are you connected with the
Springfield Republican?”
The answer came back promptly;
“As a subscriber.”
(Copyright, 1924.)