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'A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY i
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edi
fieth. And if any man think that he know
eth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as
he ought to know. But if any man love
God, the same is known of him. Let no
man deceive himself. If any man among
you seemeth to be wise in this world, let
him become a fool that he may be wise.
—First Corinthians 8:1, 2; and 3:18.
I
The Electron s Chief Eesson
To the Democratic Party
THE Presidential election, with its rout
of La Follette and his radicalism,
leaves the Democr ic part} 7 tin one
major meajis by which believers in things I
progressive in national politics can co-oper-!
ate for the achievement of their cherished i
aims. For Democratic helmsmen to realize ’
this truth and steer accordingly is of utmost ;
importance. Only thus will they win, or de
serve to win, the confidence of the rank and
file; and only thus bring their party to that
service for human freedom which is its para
mount mission and its sustaining h~ e.
Those who fancied that Democracy had
anything to gain by playing apologist to the
interests of reaction have had their answer
once for all un the election returns. The
Northeast, with its rich favors from a “pro
tective” tariff and its gainful alliance with
great monetary powers, went solidly and
overwhelmingly for Coolidge and Dawes.
New York, State and city, gave the Repub
lican national ticket one of the large ma
jorities ever polled, notwithstandiAg a re
peated assurance in the convention of last
summer that a sufficiently conservative Dem
ocrat could carry them. That John W. Davis '
made a manful fight for liberalism is to
be denied, and none was prompter that he to '
repudiate with entire sincerity eve . ' ng i
that might hint, of a bias for Wall street.
The meaningful fact is, nvever, that Mr.
Davis, despite his residence in ” k '
and his great and merited prestige in the
eyes of the business East, came no nearer !
carrying that State or that region than Wil
liam G. McAdoo would have done; nor did
he carry a State in the West. Not by danc- :
ing to a G. O. P. fiddle or seeking to placate
the ultra-conservative will the Democratic;
party go forward and come into its own. I
That role is already played to perfection by .
the Republican powers that be, and the
country has no need or place for another
such performance.
But there is manifest need for a party of
I
true progress and creative ideals. The ad
venture of Mr. La Follette has shown how
little America cares for his kind of theatri
cals. His appeal to class prejudice and to
Bolshevist humors left the mass of the peo
ple unmoved. He did not succeed in cor
ralling the German vote on which he confi
dently counted. As for Labor, to which he
laid a political monopolist's claim, it went
its usual way of individual thinking and in
dependence of would-be dictators. Mr. I.a
Follette evidently hoped to deal the Demo
cratic party a death blow by diverting to
his own standard the majority of liberals ;
and leaving the standpatters to seek comfort
in the Republican camp. In this he has
failed most markedly. The utter fiasco of .
• his campaign the country over leaves the
Democratic party the one and only national
group with which practical-minded progres
sives can affiliate.
Let us as Democrats rise to. the i pportuni
tles and the obligations thus presented. We :
owe it to the party, we owe it to the count! - }
to face forward and prove our mettle as in
terpreters of the common interests and loy
alists to the common weal. Let us in no
wise be cast down by the errors of yester
day, but assuredly we should profit b} them
THE ATI,AVI A I Hl-W l-.KKLV JOURNAL
] in planning for tomorrow. Let us not. forget
' the peril and the folly of those elements of
* reaction within the party which conspired
far in advance of the New York convention
to defeat the one outstanding candidate of
the rank and file, and which did defeat him
despite the expressed will of the people. This
The Journal says with cordial regard and
undiminished admiration for the chivalric
, American who finally was nominated and
who proved as knightly a leader as it ■was
ever our privilege to follow. Be it remem
-1 bered in seasons ahead, however, that if the
Democratic party expects the people to be
I true to its needs, it must be true to the
, people's instructions. Thus purposed and
thus led, the party of Je :rson and Jackson
and Wilson will fulfil a splendid destiny and
will triumph in the justice of the years.
I whatever may be its reverses of the moment.
Hofre for the Chestnut Tree
GEORGIANS who have feared that their
State’s once luxuriant growth of
chestnut trees might succumb entirely
to the blight which has played havoc in
other regions will welcome the reassuring
words of a scientist of Rutgers University,
. Arthur Pierson Kelley, who has been study
ing the situation in New Jersey. His ob
servations convince him that in certain
areas, at least, there is a decrease in the
1 number of branches killed annually and that
I new growth is making headway against the
. blight.
After describing, in “Science,” his methods
of measuring these developments, Mr. Pier
son goes on to say:
“■Not only are saplings showing recovery
' of growth, but older trees as well. Near the
writer’s home is a. fine grove of chestnut
trees of thirty to forty years of age; the
tops were killed, but the trees are produc
ing new crowns, in some cases recovering
half their former height, and are now well
set with fruit. This condition seems com
mon in southeastern Pennsylvania, the trees
t flourishing more on Chester and Manor soils
than on the more sterile Dekalb. It may
also be rather a widespread condition, for
in passing through the mountains from Har
risburg, Pennsylvania, to Buffalo, New
York, many trees were seen similar to those
described. In the Niagara Peninsula of On
i tario, especially near St. Catherines, recov
ery seemed evident. The improved condition
may not be due wholly to greater resistive
; powers, but to a lessened supply of spores,
1 for it is evident that the total production of
| spores is vastly lessened. The trees have
also shown their ability to heal serious cank
ers, although ultimate recovery is not a nec
essary consequence.”
Unhappily, however, there is danger of
extinction even for the growth which shows
the greatest power of resistance and propa
gation, “since the public has been taught
to believe that cutting of all chestnut trees
from a w - oodlot is a virtue.” Here again we
encounter the urgent need of a well-sustain
ed forestry service, through which commu
nities can be educated as to the importance
of conserving valuable trees < 7 .ncl through
which other endeavors to that end can be
ca'rried steadily forward.
QUIZ
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get the answer to any question puzzling
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Q. How fast can a worm travel? P. O. B.
A. There are no recognized established
records, but an ,army worm has been known
I to cross an eighty-acre field, a distance
of one-fourth of a mile, in twenty-four
hours.
I Q. Is the Taj Mahal an Indian style of
architecture? By whom was it planned 9
I J. K. R.
A. The Taj Mahal was planned by Ustad
. Isa, a Persian, and is Persian architecture
I rather than Indian. It is of white marble
: outside and peweled mosaic inside.
Q. How many children had Robert and I
Elizabeth Browning? A. R.
A. The poets had but one child, a son,
Robert Wiedemann Barret Browning, who
died a few years ago.
Q. Did the Marquis of Queensberry ever
light under the rules which bear his name?
i A. The Marquis of Queensberry took a
great interest in boxing and in 1565 decided
that the rules of the London prize ring were
rather brutal. With the assistance of Ar
thur Chambers he framed the rudes and
these two men fought for the lightweight
championship in 1872, the Queensberrv rules
governing the contest.
Q. Do more women commit suicide than
men? M. W. C.
A. Os 12,948 reported suicides last vear
4.316 were women. It. is estimated that
there were from 2,000 to 3.000 unreported
suicides, but there are no estimates as to
the proportion of women to men.
Q. What is the unit of Polish money and
what is it worth? A. O. W.
A. It is the zloty and its par value is 19.3
cents. It is almost at par.
■ Q. Are there any countries where there
lis no divorce law? D. L. T.
A. Divorce is not permitted in Italy and
' in Spain.
Q. What proportion of the people of this
country have poor eyesight? H. P.
i A. The Eyesight Conservation Council is
authority for the statement that defective
vision afflicts at least 25.000,000 of the
4 2.000.000 persons engaged in gainful oc-
I cupations in the United States. It is esti
j mated that 11 per cent of the children of
the country have serious eye defects.
Q. How does a speedometer work on an
airplane? A. K.
A. There is no real speedometer on an
airplane. There is an air speed indicator
which records the relative speed of the
plane to the air. not necessarily the speed
of the plane relative to the” ground.
Q. What is the difference between an
atheist, and an infidel? V. L. P.
A. An atheist denies the existence o’ a
God. while an infidel is a person who does
i not believe in a specified faith.
t
THE SE-A HAWK |
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
i Published by Arr. l . nsetnent With First, National Picture?.
| In-’ Copyrighted by Houghton-Milflin Company.)
What has gone before.—Sir Oliver
' Tressilian is betrothed to Rosamund Go
j dolphin, but the marriage is opposed by
Rosamund’s brother, Peter, and her
guardian. Sir John Killigrew. When
Oliver’s young half-brother, Lionel, kills
Peter in a quarrel suspicion falls on i
(|liver. A trail of blood is found lead
ing from the body to his doorway. Even
.Rosamund believes him guilty. Desir- ;
ing to protect Lionel, Oliver can only I
protest, his innocence; but he obtains
from the justices a document, to be pro
duced in case of trial, attesting to the
fact that he bears no mark of recent
wound; that therefore the trail of
blood, obviously that of the murderer, |
is not his. A few’ weeks later trial
threatens; and Lionel, .crazed with fear
that Oliver will reveal the truth, hires
a pirate sea captain, Jasper Leigh, to j
abduct him and sell him as a galley
slave. With Oliver’s disappearance it
is assumed he has fled to escape trial. ■
Out at sea Leigh offers, for a price, to
take Oliver back to England, and is
about to turn back when a great Span
ish ship bears down upon them, her
guns in action. The Swallow 7 , unarmed,
is sunk.
From ambush Sakr-el-Bahr, the Hawk
of the Sea, directs his own two gal- '
leys in an attack on a Spanish ship which
has drifted into a haven on the north
ern coast of Africa. The Spaniard,
unprepared, surrenders after a brief
engagement.—Now go on with the
story.
CHAPTER X
The Renegade
OW it came to happen that Sakr-el-
Bahr, the Hawk of the Sea, the Moslem
rover, the scourge of the Mediterranean,
the terror of Christians and the beloved of
Asad-ed-Din, Basha of Algiers, would be one
and the same as Sir Oliver Tressilian, the
Cornish gentleman of Penarrow 7 , is at long
length set forth in the chronicles of Lord
Henry Coade.
Sir Oliver was one of a score of men who
were rescued from the sea by the crew of
the Spanish vessel that had sunk the Swal
low; another was Jasper Leigh, the skip
per. All of them were carried to Lisbon,
and there handed over to the Court of the
Holy Office. Since they were heretics all
or nearly all—it was fit and proper that the
Brethren of St. Dominib should undertake
their conversion in the first place.
Sir Oliver came of a family that never
had been famed for rigidity in religious mat
ters, and he was certainly not going to
burn alive if the adoption of other men’s
opinions upon an extremely hypothetical fu
ture state would suffice to save him from
the stake. He accepted Catholic baptism
with an almost contemptuous indifference.
As for Jasper Leigh, it will be conceived
that the elasticity of the skipper’s conscience
was no less than Sir Oliver’s, and he was ■
certainly not the man to be roasted for a
trifle of faith.
No doubt there would be great rejoicings
in the Holy House over the rescue of these
two unfortunate souls from the certain per
dition rha,t had awaited them. It followed '
that as converts to the Faith they were
warmly cherished, and tears of thanksgiving I
were profusely shed over them. So much j
foi . their heresy. They were completely 1
purged of it, having done penance in proper
form at an Auto held on the Rocio at Lis-i
bon, candle in hand and sanbenito on their i
shoulders. The Church dismissed them with
her blessing and an injunction to persevere
in the ways of salvation.
Now this dismissal amounted to a. rejec- 1
tion. Ihejtwcre, as a consequence, thrown
back upon ihe secular authorities, and the
secular authorities had yet to punish them •
for their offense upon the seas. No offense
could be proved, it is true. But the courts!
were satisfied that this lack of offense was :
but the natural result of a lack of oppor
tunity. Conversely, they reasoned, it was
not to be doubted that with the opportunity I
Bflense would have been forthcoming. '
lheii assurance of this was based upon the
fact that when the Spaniard fired across the
bows of the Swallow as an invitation to
heave to, she had kept upon her course. |
Thus, with unanswerable Castilian logic wajs
the tfvil conscience of her skipper proven.
Captain Leigh protested on the other
hand that his action had been dictated by
his lack of faith in Spaniards and his firm
belief that all Spaniards were pirates to
be avoided by every honest seaman who was i
conscious of inferior strength of armaments.
It was a plea that won him no favor with !
his narrow-minded judges.
Sir Oliver fervently urged that he was no
membei- of the crew of the Swallow, that he
was a gentleman who found himself aboard
her very much against his will, being the
victim of a villainous piece of trepanning
executed by her venal captain. The court
heard his plea with respect, and asked to
know his name and rank. Ho was so very
indiscreet as to answer truthfully. The result
was extremely educative to Sir Oliver; it
showed him how systematically conducted
was the keeping of the Spanish archives. The
court produced documents enabling his
judges to recite to him most of that portion
of his life that had been spent upon the
seas, and many an awkward little circum
stance which had slipped his memory long
since, which he now recalled, and which
cei tainly was not calculated to make his
sentence lighter.
Had he not been in the Barbatjos in such
a year, and had he not there captured the !
galleon Maria de la Dolores? What was that
but an act of villainous piracy? Had he not
scuttled a Spanish carack four years ago in
the bay of Funchal? Had he not been with
that pirate Hawkins in the affair at San
Juan de I lloa? And so on. Questions
poured upon him and engulfed him.
He almotst regretted that he had given
himself the trouble to accept conversion and
ail that it entailed at the hands of the
Brethren of St. Dominic. It began to appear
io him that he had but wasted time and es
caped the clerical fire to be dangled on a
secular rope as an offering to the vengeful
gods of outraged Spain.
So much, however, was not done. The
galle}s in the Mediterranean were in urgent
need of men at the lime, and to this circum
stance Sir Oliver. Captain Leigh and some
others oi the luckless crew of the Bwallow
owed their lives. Though it ie to be doubted
w.iether an} of them found the matter one
for congratulation. Chained each man to
.e ow. <mkle to ankle, with but a short
length ot Imxs between, they formed part
of a considerable herd of unfortunates who
weie driven across Portugal into Spain and
then southward to Cadiz.
f plh e ' aSt that . Sir O!ive ” 3a 'v of Captain ■
Heigh was on the morning on which thev :
set out trom the reeking Lisbon goal. There
after throughout that wearv march c- 1
knew the other to be somewhere in that
wretched regiment of galley-slaves; but thev :
never came face to face
In Cadiz Sir Oliver spem ’ a month in a
y ast inclosed space that was open to the
sky. but nevertheless of an indescribable
foulness, a place of filth disease and suffe 7-
ing beyond human conception.
At the end of that month he was one of
those picked out by an officer who was
manning a was to convey the
to Naples. 'He owed to his
place of torments, and to the fine thews
THE COUNTRY HOME
UY MRS. W. H. FELTON
THE ELECTION EXCITEMENT NEARLY
OVER
I AM writing my usual Wednesday article
for the Country Home Column, and the
national election returns were printed
today.
It is settled that President. Coolidge and
General Dawes are elected for four years,
and the next presidential election will be
held in November, 1928. If I had the right
to fix it, I’d say one presidential election
in six years and then a new candidate. It
is so plain that “one who runs may read”
that it is surprising that a change has not
been made already. No matter how good a
president he has been, it is best for the
country to get rid of personal politics in
the White House. As a rule, the people
get tired of the same president, towards the
close of the second term. General Wash
ington had some bitter political enemies
before he left the presidential office.
General Grant failed of a nomination for
a third term. Grover Cleveland found that
he had some bitter opponents among solid
south Democrats. They were in the habit
of deriding him on the floor of the senate.
History is already giving him due credit
for his firmness and hard common sense.
To my mind, he was the best man for the
White House for firmness and plain horse
sense the Democrats could have chosen for
a candidate after General Grant’s term - ex
pired. S. J. Tilden was a famous lawyer,
and Hancock was only a military man, and
W. J. Bryan has now almost worn out his
reputation as a politician (outlived him
self). Cleveland does not. shrink as the.
years roll on. He is respected. After it be
came known, however, that Cleveland en
tertained Fred Douglas and his white wife
as guests, the southern bragadiers soured
on him, and “quit him cold,” so to speak.
It is too soon perhaps to ■write critical views
of President Wilson, as he died less than a
year ago, but we know that he would have
been rejected for a third term, and he knew
ho had grown unpopular with his own po
litical faction. In my opinion—and it may
be worth very little—Mr. Davis made his
greatest blunder in his presidential cam
paign when he came out for the League of
Nations some weeks after the New York
convention had declined to use it for the
Democratic campaign. Mr. Wilson was not
to he censured for holding on to it, but Mr.
Davis seems to have forgotten that the
7,000,000 majority for President Harding
was given by the organized opposition to
the League of Nations, regardless of po
litical parties. It. intensified the efforts of
the Republican party and woke up the de
termination of all safe-thinking people in
Thinking Is Better Than Whipping
By Dr. Frank Crane
< NUMBER of correspondents have re
plied to my article upon “Beating Chil
dren.” I have been called “maudlin”
and “blabbering.” When people go to call
ing names it shows th4y are very much in
earnest.
There is one man, however, that has fur
nished me with a new text. He says, in sub
stance, that corporal punishment is justifi
able for boy rowdies who throw stones and
then run away mocking.
Which reminds me of a historic occur
rence that may shed a little light upon the
question.
When John H. Patterson built the first
shops' for manufacturing his cash registers
at Dayton, Ohio, he made them with many
windows. They were, however, in a section
of the suburbs -where a host of bad boys
dwelt. These boys amused themselves and
exercised their destructive propensities by
breaking the windows.
Now, the natural, ordinary, and stupid
thing for Mr. Patterson th do was to have
the urchins arrested, fined, and sent to pris
on. That is the average fool logic of men.
“That will show them how to damage other
people’s property. That will frighten them
into obedience of law!”
The only trouble with that process is that
it never has ivorked and never will work.
Punishment has never abated crime since
the foundation of the world. It increases
crime. It fosters a criminal class.
Mr. Patterson did not arrest the young
hoodlums. Instead he sat down and thought.
If people would do-a little serious thinking
it would save them a deal of folly.
And he asked himself: “Why do these
boys throw stones through my window’s?
They don’t know me, nor hate me.” And
after more careful thinking he came to the
conclusion that the boys wrecked windows
simply because they had nothing else to do
that was so interesting as that.
So he determined to give them something
to do. He gave a plot of ground to the
boys of the neighborhood. He hired an ex
pert gardener to show the boys how 7 to raise
things. And the boys took to gardening as
a monkey takes to sugar. 1
For boys love to be outdoors, to exercise,
to raise things, and to make money. They
like .that better than breaking windows.
So Mr. Patterson “killed off the bad
pests in the very best w 7 ay to kill any “bad”
people, w’hich is by tact and forethought and
belief in the inborn goodness of human na
ture.
That is the gist of the W'hole matter.
There are few 7 bad boys and girls. There
are too many ignorant, dull-minded and
childish grow 7 n people. A child is a bundle
of activities. Spend a proper amount of time
and trouble in arranging for these activities
to be normally and joyfully exercised and
your children’s “badness” will disappear.
Punishment, the ancient and venerable
superstition that fear will make character,
is an utter humbg.
, The “Boys’ Garden” idea has spread. It
has been adopted by many public schools.
Unmeasured good has come from the plan.
More good is yet to come when we shall
get all the little ones out of doors to play
with Mother Earth. And all because a man
had sense enough, when he was injured, to
think and not to strike.
(Copyright, 1924.)
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Divorce is the difference between matri
mony and alimony.
No person enjoys drinking in a conversa
tion of the extra dry brand.
If it is true that the apparM makes the
man, some men ought to change tailors.
The less energy a man has the easier for
him to drift into matrimony.
The railway engineer may not b' 7 ' a society
leader, but wealth and fashion frequently
follow in his train.
Some men are so available that they don't
stick to onn thing long enough to make a
success of it.
Ten years ago there were more telephones
in the United Statee than there are today
in all foreign countries combined.
which the officer pummeled and felt as
though he were acquiring a beast of burden
which, indeed, is precisely what he was
Continued Thursday. Renew jour sub
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER It. 1921.
' i the United States TO KEEP OUT of
European politics. NO MORE CONSCRIP
i TION FOR AMERICAN BOYS TO FIGHT
FOR (OR AGAINST) ROYAL THRONES
IN EUROPE —is one of the things “graven
with an iron pen in the rock forever” on
the minds of our own people. All can vol
unteer if it so suits them, but no more con
scripts, with or without regard for color,
or previous condition of servitude!
It is well to say . in this connection that
it was a Democratic president who EQUAL
IZED the military forces of the United
States, and gave the SAME PAY, the SAME
UNIFORM and the SAME PENSION to black
I as well as white conscripted soldiers, and
i the result* is now partly apparent. The
! ex-service men of the World’s war voted
1 in yesterday’s election, and the wives and
i widows of colored ex-service men have also
liberty to vote. No “grandfather clause”
! will operate against more liberty to the
[ ex-service colored voters in these United
States!
The ’solid south cannot solidify itself
against The outside states much longer. We
I have made it a business to vote. for only
! one party since Appomattox, and the south
■ i is now dividing itself on racial and religious
intolerance. It counts locally at home, but
I is voted by smarter politicians for personal
; ! gain and' political prominence in other sec
' tions, while we continue to play “mumble
peg” and allow so-called “farm blocs” to
block all national legislation by their use
of our representatives from the southern
1 -states to further their combinations and
conspiracies.
Mr. La Follette has carried his own state,
and Mr. Davis failed to''carry West Vir
ginia. Mr. La Follette organized a so
! j called “farm bloc” for political warfare in
[ 1921, and he brought in five western Re-
I publicans, including himself. and four
• | southern Democrats joined him in close
j bonds of unity and loyalty. When the
• j story is written in full, we will discover
that, the SOLID SOUTH *was wrecked by
• ’ that, combination, and Mr. Davis had a
I hopeless task before him after he was
■ nominated in Madison Square Garden last
■ \ July.
He made a gallant fight against hope
less odds. Behind him, working like beav
; i ers in a creek swamp, were these farm
bloc conspirators, hoping to control the
western vote. When the end came yester
i day, the only loser who retains the sym
j nathy of the United State Xis Hon. John
M . Davis, who would have nowhere to lay
1 his. political head savt? ip the solid south.
; which always counts for next to nothing
|in a hand-to-hand fight for the highest
prize.
I MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irving. S. Cobb
DOM N at Washington they used to tell
this story on Colonel Bill Sterritt, the
veteran philosopher of Texas, who fig
ured in so many of the late Alfred Henry
. Lewis’ “Wolfville” tales. It may not. have
,1 been true but certainly it suited the per
sonality of the colonel.
Sterritt is a Kentuckian oy nirth and
comes of a family that believed strongly in
secession. An older brother of his, the fa
mous Jeff Sterritt, was one of Morgan’s
Raiders. So it was natural that w’hen Bill
came up to Washington a few years after
the Civil war ended, to represent several
struggling Kentucky and Tennessee papers
as their special correspondent, that he came
1 with a full cargo of Southern sentiment
aboard.
Those were lean times for tne South and
no one of the papers he served could afford
to pay Sterritt more than a few dollars a
week. He wasn’t able even to rent desk
room. His office -was under his hat and he
wrote his dispatches in hotel reading rooms,
mostly. But he was modest and agreeable
: and his point of view, then as now, was
breezy, and he. made friends.
One of the friends he made was a distin
guished ex-brigadier of the Union army who
chose to cover the news of the national cap
ital for the Middle Western paper of which
he was part owner. This gentleman was
dignified and courtly and kindly; he had
high principles and beautiful manners. But
■ he had a temper, too. as was befitting a
gallant soldier. He took a great fancy to
■ the threadbare, witty stripling from Ken
tucky. In fact, he constituted himself Ster
ritt's patron. One day he went to him and
! ■ said:
; “See here, my son, I’m tired of seeing
i you skirmishing about with no moorings.
Now, I have a big office with plenty of
. room in it. I’m going to fit up one end of
it for your use. There’ll be a desk there for
you and a chair and a place to hang your
hat. Here’s a key to the outside door—
from now on I want you to make yourself
, at home.”
Bill accepted the offer. From that time
intil he became more prosperous he shared
the quarters of his elderly friend. One
morning as he sat in his private corner, a
slinky individual of a type somewhat com
mon in Washington in the two decades im
mediately following the war, entered the of
fice. This person was of dubious repute. He
was supposed to be a lobbyist, but common
rumor had it that he w 7 as not above doing
a little professional waver of the Bloody
Shirt. He sidled up to where the old war
horse sat at his desk in the middle of the
room. The general gave him a curt nod.
In nowise abashed, the visitor bent his head
and whispered something in the brigadier’s
ear.
The response of the latter was prompt and j
tartling. Without a moment’s hesitation
he hauled off and clouted the newcomer on I
the nose.
“Why, you infamous blackguard!” he.
-puttered. “How dare you—how dare you '
have the effrontery to try to enlist me in i
one of your despicable schemes!”
With that he leaped to his feet, seized
the stunned intruder by the back of the neck |
and began kicking him about the room while .
Sterritt, with a look of lively interest on his I
face, sat by enjoytfig the spectacle.
“I kick you, sir,” cried out the old gentle- |
man, “because you are an infernal rascal! I
( Bang!) I kick you because you are a tra-i
ducer of womankind! (Blooie!) I kick you ;
because you are un’worthy of being called g
man! (Kerwop!) I kick you because you l
presume to approach me for aid in your 1
nefarious operations! (Blam!) I kick you, ■
sir, because—because !”
He hesitated here, still holding the writh
ing culprit in his firm grip. His toe hung;
poised; his knee was bent; it was evident:
that he still had at least one more sound :
wallop in reserve and ached to bestow it. 1
But, seemingly, he had run out of reasons.
Mith an expectant smile on his face young
Sterritt rose up:
“I beg your pardon for interrupting, Gen
eral. ’ he said, gently, “but I wonder whether
you d mind if I kicked the dam’ scoundrel .
once in memory of our Heroic Confederate
Dead?”
(Copyright, 1924.)
I nere was a certain clergyman in the
town who had the reputation of being long
winded and he acquired a title to fit his case
rather unexpectedly. It happened that in
the report of a wedding in the country
newspaper occurred the following:
‘'The ceremony wag performed by the
Neverend Mr. Brown.”
THE ELECTION RESULT IN
t GEORGIA
REASONING from cause to. effect In In
terpreting the election result in Geor
gia, John W. Hammond, well-known
political writer and special correspondent,
comments interestingly in a dispatch to the
Augusta Chronicle, which has attracted
widespread attention.
“First and foremost,” remarks Mr. Ham
mond, “Georgia not only kept the Demo
cratic faith, but strengthened it. While the
country was going overwhelmingly Repub
lican; while the battle cry of the ‘Red’ filled
the political atmosphere and gave foundation
for a real alarm in Georgia, this State gave
a total Democratic vote in excess of that
given to Governor Cox when he ran four
years ago. An index to just what this situ
ation is may be gained by a study of the re
sult in Fulton county, where confessedly
the strongest Republican and Progressive
work was done, where there was more for
those campaigns to work upon; where they
claimed their greatest hopes of gains from
the Democratic part 7 .
“Looking backward a few weeks, though,
it was easily perceptible to those who know
State politics, and who have had ample op
portunity to size up the drift of things on
the approach of the balloting day, that Geor
gia was in just that precarious Democratic
condition which leaders at that time pic
tured it. That there was, in the last three
weeks of the campaigning a formidable turn
ing back of the tide is as obvious as it was
true. Somebody was responsible for that
tide-turning and today, in reflecting what
brought about a return to the Democratic
fold of those weak-kneed brothers who were
talking openly of having strayed from the
fold, the somebody becomes visible. It was
Major John S. Cohen, the new National Com
mitteeman. Major Cohen poured into this
campaign an unreserved effort such as he
nor any bther man has before turned onto
any national fight. He stayed with the fight
day and night. He lunched with it; sat
with it in every conference he could get
held; talked it; wrote about it for publica
tion and in a mountain-high pile of letters.
In a word, Major Cohen lived Ills party fight
in this campaign—and he simply made his
party, not win for it ■would have won any
way, but turn back a threatening tide, strike
the voting-day tide of the State’s old party
alignment, and score for itself a bigger rec
ord than it had before. It was Major Cohen
and those leaders who so loyally imbibed his
enthusiasm and /determination —and they
have justified themselves quite fully, not in
theory, but in results obtained.” n
THE PNEUMONIA PERIL
By H. Addington Bruce
ONCE more the so-called pneumonia sea
son draws near. Though, to be sure,
pneumonia unhappily is more or less
in evidence the year through. Even during
summer months there are not a few deaths
from this dread disease, as newspaper obitu
ary notices bear witness.
But it is in winter that pneumonia always
takes its heaviest toll. And in view of the
history of recent winters it is to be feared
that through the coming months it will hit
hard, unless there is really earnest effort on
the part of people generally—and especially
on the part of city dwellers —to meet it by
the preparedness of personal hygiene.
Pneumonia is likely, in fact, to hit hardeY
than usual, if those authorities are corrrect
who suggest that it is steadily if slowly on
the increase. This would seem to have been
definitely established in the case of. broncho
pneumonia, and if not true of all other forms
of pneumonia there is no season to believe
that the others show any appreciable de
crease.
The trouble is that pneumonia is one of
the diseases peculiarly favored by such con
ditions as over-crowding, fatigue, and under
exqrcising. Modern life —particularly mod-"
ern city life—is conspicuously characterized
by these very conditions as regards great
masses of the population. ?.*
And not only is there much involuntary
over-crowding, fatigue, and under-exercising,
there is much that is purely voluntary.
Many people seem to have a veritable pas
sion for taking recreation in crowded places,
many weary themselves by play even more
than by their work, and many w 7 hose occu
pation is distinctly sedentary give their
leisure wholly to sedentary amusements.
It has also to be said that many, besides
exercising little if at all, habitually oveyeat.
Overeating inevitably tends to a systematic
congestion which today is known to play a
contributory part in the development of
pneumonik and other respiratory diseases.
Thus pneumonia prevention beoomes to a
large extent a matter of wise regulating of
living habits.
Persons who from necessity have to spend
much of their time indoors, amid crowds,
and in fatiguing if sedentary occupations,
should especially make it a point, to get at
least, a little outdoor exercise daily, to give
preference to amusements that do not mean
further crowding, and to give themselves
the repose of ample sleep in well-ventilated
rooms. These, indeed, are anti-pneumonia
precautions everybody should take.
And everybody, whatever his or her occu
pation, while being careful to meet the re
quirement of a sufficiency of nourishing
food, should be equally careful not to let
the appetite impel to over-nutrition. The im
portance of this precautionary measure can
not be urged too strongly.
One thing more:
If, at a time when pneumonia is known
to be active in the community, one has the
misfortune to contract a cold or other minor
malady of the respiratory tract, remain at
home, if it is at all possible to do so, until
that malady has run its course.
If to remain at home is impossible, at z
least it always is possible to exert oneself
no more than is absolutely necessany, to go
to no.crowded amusement place, and to take
an extra allowance of rest and sleep. To
ignore a cold, to regard it as quite negligi
ble, may be to convert that cold into some
thing infinitely worse.
(Copyright, 1924.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A ■well-known author on leaving his house
one morning forgot a letter he had intended
to mail. During the afternoon something
recalled it to his mind, and as it was of
considerable importance he hurried home.
The letter was nowhere to be found.
He summoned the servant. “Have you
seen anything of a letter of mine lying
about?”i
“Yes, sir.”
“Where is it?”
“Posted, sir.”
“Posted! Why, there was no name or ad
dress on the envelope.”
“I know there wasn’t, sir, hut I thought
it must be in answer to one of them anony
mous letters you’ve been getting lately.”
Two men were talking about the eloquence
of a certain member of congress.
“Yes,” said one, “I like to hear him talk,
but he always reminds me of a fisherman
friend of mine. This chap was telling of
one of the big ones he had caught when a
listener interrupted:
“ ‘I notice that in telling about that fish
you caught, you vary the size for different
listeners.’
“ ‘Quite right,’ admitted my friend. ‘I
make jt a point never to tell a man more
than I think he will believe.”