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Terminate the Treaty
Rather Than Yield to
England’s Dictation
In his Panama canal message Mr. Taft proves himself a
lawyer first, an American afterward. Ho asserts our right to
conduct the canal as we choose. But he asks congress to in
vite foreign shipowners to test in the American courts our
rights to control our own domestic possessions. To Mr. Taft
nothing exists until established by judicial decision, not even
patriotism.
Congress will refuse to grant the resolution. The senate
canal committee has already so voted. If. for that reason Mr.
Taft sees fit to veto the bill, the country will be the gainer. The,
good in the bill is more than offset by the bad. No virtue that
it contains can atone for its surrender of the principle of full
control of the Panama canal by the nation that built it, manages
it and owns it.
We hope we have as high a regard for the honor of this
nation, and as firm a belief in its duty to keep all its promises
as Mr. Taft. But we do not believe that the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty binds this country to submit to foreign interference in
the management of its own property, as contended by the Brit
ish interests and their Tory allies among American newspapers.
The best proof that the treaty is not open to such con
struction is the admission by the chairman of the senate com
mittee on foreign relations that, had he believed it could be so
interpreted, he never would have reported it to the senate.
We shall be glad, therefore, to see Mr. Taft veto the bill,
not for the reasons that he will give, viz. that the bill asserts
American rights too strongly, but for the opposite reason, that
it does not assert them strongly enough.
We know that when the hill is sent hack to congress newly
aroused American sentiment will cause such revision that IT
WILL BE FAVORABLE TO AMERICAN SHIPS.
The main thing, as we have said, is Io establish Ihe right
of American control of the canal as a domestic possession. If
we allow all American ships free we have established that right.
We can change the rules later, if it is desirable. But if we con
cede England's claim and forbid free toils to American ships,
we have abandoned the right, and will he unable to insist on it
later. And when the question of fortification arises, and our
right to the canal as a domestic possession has been forfeited
before the world, it is easy to foresee in what an embarrassing
position we shall be placed.
England alone has protested, of all the nations, to Eng
land alone does Mr. Taft ask that the courts be opened. Be
fore we take such a humiliating step let the treaty itself be
terminated. Treaties have been terminated before. Mr. Taft
himself terminated one with Russia this spring. And no coun
try has more eagerly swept treaties aside than England, when
ever her own interests were involved.
Negotiations for the termination of the treaty would far
better become Mr. Taft than an attempt to “preserve the na
tional honor'' BY HAI LING DOWN THE AMERICAN FLAG
OVER THE CANAL AT THE DEMAND OF A SINGLE FOR
EIGN POWER
Illusions of “Wealth Per
Capita"
A New York paper argues that the American people are in a
state of fabulous prosperity because our “wealth per capita” in
1850 was $307.60 and in 1910 was $1,310.11.
Average American families of average size, who are wondering
what has become of their five times $1,310.11, or $6,550.55, mav be
interested in a word or two of explanation of the illusions of
“wealth per capita.’’
In the first place, it is to be remarked that there is no known
way of stating the wealth of a great nation in a gross sum. Everv
attempt to do so in tables of statistics is made up in part of ac
tually existing values, in part of speculative values, in part of le
gally enforceable claims held by one class citizens against an
other class, and in part of more or less romantic guesswork.
In the second place, it is to be observed that a really prosper
ous country is a country where honest and industrious human be
ings have a high purchasing power over the necessaries and con
veniences of existence. No country in which it is hard to make a
living can be called rich—even thofigh every man had a high
figured bankbook and a big stack of watered stocks, bonds and
other certificates of indebtedness against society at large.
Finally, take notice that a nation of a hundred million paupers
and one trillionaire would have a “wealth per capita" of about
ten thonsand dollars.
Threatened disruption of
Chinese Republic
It'now seems likely that the Chinese republic, which was es
tablished under such happy auspices a few months'ago, will be torn
to pieces by factional war. There is good reason to believe that
China would have hail peace and order if the financiers and states
men of Europe and America had given it a fair chance.
Russia and Japan seem to have come to an agreement as to
just what kind of plucking and carving they care to accomplish
in the Chinese territories And the apparent failure of the repuli
lie, with the consequent turmoil, will no doubt give case and con
venience to the carrying out of their plans
In the retrospect of history it will be seen that not the h ast of
Mr. Taft's big blunders uas his failur- to guc prompt recognition
to the < 'hiuese republic Th- birth of a nat ion is lik< the hirtb of a
child It begins in weakn- >s and needs help
Nobody can tell what • Xll consequence* inn) Ih entailed >ip->n
the whole world through the precipitation ul a utw chaos iu < hum
The Atlanta Georgian
His First Drink—-and His Last
By HAL COFFMAN.
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:: Demanding the Impossible ::
A WOMA N, who has been mar
ried six years and says slip's
never had a single peaceful
day in them, wants to know how
to please a tiipercritical husband.
She says:
"My* husband is very particular
about his food, and •complains if
everything is not perfectly cooked,
yet after I have spent hours over
the stove preparing a dinner to his
liking he grumbles because 1 smell
of the kitchen.
"He says I don't read enough,
then when 1 read he complains of
my uasting my time over novels
instead of looking after my house.
"He finds fault with me because
I am not stylishly dressed. ye ( t
when 1 want a new gown he com
plains of my extravagance.
"He says I'm not companionable
enough, yet when I go out with him
he shows that he's bored to death
and wishes that 1 had stayed at
home.
"How can 1 please such a man
as this?"
You can't A lady angel from
heaven couldn't. The only way to
deal w ith that kind of a disgruntled
grouch is to let him alone, and go
along and do the way you want to
without any reference to him. He
w ouldn't be pleased, anj way. so
you had as well please yourself.
This man has an aggravated
case of a very common failing
among husbands, and that is they
expect the impossible from their
wives. They demand that their
w ives shall be lightning change ar
tists, who i an be household drudges
one minute and society butterflies
the next, who can do the cooking,
and washing, and ironing, and sew -
ing and mending, and baby tending
for a family, and yet always appear
with beautifully manicured, lily
white hands, and dressed in silk
and lace party gowns, and be able
to hand out a line of bright and en
tertaining small talk when hubby
comes home.
Very Unreasonable
Os course, this is utterly unrea
sonable The woman who does her
own work is bound to have rough
and work-hardened hands She is
hound to be tired and nerve
wrecked. It takes money and
leisure, and caw of both and mind,
for a woman to be abb to keep
herself < a in mill serene ami beau
tifully dreesed, and up to the min
ute in - onv *t Nation,
Honestly when you see what
men rxp.<t of i o wives, it doe*
look f ths • *.« - f good ileal to
m fator of polygamy t'tttain-
MONDAY. AUGUST 26, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIN.
l.v being a wife is a two-woman job.
for if any man got w hat he thinks
are his just deserts in matrimony,
it would require one wife to look
after his physical comfort, and bear
and rear his children for him, and
another wife to entertain him and
go about with him, and always look
DOROTHY DIX
like a living picture. And both
ladies would have their hands full,
believe me.
The law of the land and the high
cost of living preventing this sim
ple solution of the problem, a man
falls back upon the expedient of ex
pecting his wife to combine all
suits of antagonistic qualities in
her one person, and to be able to
turn out every sort of varied per
formance He e.xpei ts her to be
Mary Ann in the kitchen and
Queen Ann in the parlm. to be ah ■ ■
to get i dinner with one hand ami
play lh» piano with the other, to
dress ke a fi-bion plate and
► pend no imine
He ey in ma ic- on tin- platform
I H» pliks oi|t 10l .1 Wife >1 -Illy little
and ask- Him f ulls y iiuesimns. and
i i- ’ w. •
rienced. broad-minded, sane wom
an. He selects a girl because she
is beautiful, and dainty, and help
less, and then complains if she isn't
practical, and economical, and a
good manager. He will even mar
ry a professional woman and then
feel himself ill-used because she
knows mote about temperament
than she does the proper tempera
! turn to bake bread.
Yet, the very man who expects
the impossible of his wife is not
illogical enough to l.ook for mira
cles to happen anywhere else. He
wouldn't buy an automobile and
expect it to turn into a church or
gan. He wouldn't pick out a steak
in a butcher shop and expect to
find it converted into ice cream
when' he ’got home. He wouldn't
expect his dog to suddenly burst
into -ong like a canary, but he
does expect just as utterly incon
gruous things to take place in a
woman as soon as the marriage
cererhony is over her.
Nor are men I alone in expecting
‘ the impossible of the ones they
merry. Women have a alent for
that, too. and nine-tenths of the
complaints that you hear from
; wives arc simply the result of
ladies demanding that their bread
and butter shall also be caramel
cake.
You hear plenty of women, re
splendent in imported finery, sigh
ing because their poor, dear Johns
are so absorbed in money-making
that they haven't time to attend
Browning circles, and Ibsen mati
nees Sometimes these wives even
go so far as to consider that their
husbands' lack of soulfulness justi
fies them in having long-haired,
high-browed affinities with whom
they can discuss the whatness of
the ain't and other throbbing prop
ositions.
Another Side.
Again you see other w omen mar
ried to literals or artistic men who
lament that they have more com
panionship than dollars, and who
are dissatisfied because their hus
bands can’t make as much money
as a Wall stieet broker.
In short. the feminine ideal of a
perfect mate is as impossible of
i aiization as the masculine N<»
man Is at <»n< » a great money
maker and an idealis? no man <an
mak« a folium in the gruren
trade <nd hold his u if- « land at
the imr. arts more than a
unman <an Im both a leader of
la-hl-'li «nd a house hold dt iidg»
111 be«.»a>e men and umneii
i lln HH|w*sible <»f each oth«-
that naitlugt 14 «• often a (allut
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
The Failure of Wo
men To Be the
Best Mothers
Possible
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.
the n arcnts a ,ou g h dia-
I inond could only realize the
handicap they place in their
child by starting him out into the
world without polishing him as
much as possible, I am sure every
parent would do his utmost to add
a touch here and a touch there to
the personality of his offspring dur
ing childhood, for it is during child
hood that the little habits are
formed, which, taken as a whole, do
so much to influence his future
career and station in life. I refer
to habits of tidiness, manner, de
portment, carriage, table etiquette,
care of the toilet. >tc. There comes
a time" in the life of every child
when habits of this class have to
be formed, and there is no reason
on earth why they should not be
formed in such away that in later
years they will not be a source of
embarrassment to him.”
—HERBERT PARKYN, M.D.
I WISH these words, by- one of
America's most gifted and dis
tinguished physicians and met
aphysicians could be written in
letters of gold and hung where
every mother and teacher in the
land might read them daily.
Children Show Their
Mothers’ Teaching.
Women are pushing forward their
claims for higher recognition,
everywhere and every day; and
women are succeeding in almost all
the arts, professions and trades for
merly pursued by men exclusively;
yet women ARE ALMOST UNI
VERSALLY FAILING TO BE
THE BEST MOTHERS POSSI
BLE.
You who read these words may
take exception to such a statement.
Yet. employ yopr leisure hours the
next week in looking about you
critically and dispassionately for a
really perfect, or even “near per
fect" mother of boys and girls of
that embryo age. from eight tv
fourteen.
It is during that period children
show forth the training and teach
ing which has come to them from
close association with their moth
ers.
To again quote from Dr. Parkyn:
“There are great possibilities in
a new wooden barrel, provided it
is empty. It is very easy to fill
it with syrup or kerosene, or any
other liquid. But if a barrel be
filled first with kerosene it Is very
difficult to so completely get rid
of its impressions on the barrel
that the barrel can be used after
ward for syrup, the barrel as it
were, having formed an auto
suggestion which is hard to over
come.
"A young child's mind is very
much like a barrel, so fa as its
first impressions are concerned.
Its mind is an empty thing, wait
. ing to be filled with any kind of
impressions, and the impressions
of childhood are by far the most
lasting.
"Childhood is the most favorable
time to develop the little habits we
carry through life, and the im-
Virginia Dare
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
\tIRGINIA DARE, the first child
/ of the English race born
within the limits of what is
now the United States, had her
natal day three hundred and twen
ty-five years ago.
In the light of present-day events,
there is something thrillingly sig
nificant in the fact that the first
English child born in this country
should have been a girl—a mem
ber of the sex which is today all
over the earth making congresses,
legislaturesand parliaments "sit up
and listen" to its demands tor rec
ognition as a factor in world gov
ernment.
I he circumstances In the midst
of which little Virginia was ush
ered into the world were not of the
fairest description.
The gallant knight. Sir Walter
Raleigh, in I’>B3 sent his half
brother. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, to
make a settlement in the New
World. <>n the American coast -
probably that of Newfoundland
Sir Humphrey lost one of bls ships,
with nearly nil of its crew. and in
attempting to reach home In the
other vessel sank In a great storm
I near Fayal, exclaiming as he went
down ’"The way tn maven is li
near by sea as bi land."
In 1584 another expedition, sent
oil’ Io Raleigh undri Vmtdis and
Barlow, <a<hrd the counter n,. i
known a« Ninth t a oilna, p.«-bed
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portance of giving attention to
these little habits cannot be too
strongly impressed upon the
minds of parents of young chil
dren. So many parents believe
that if they teach .their children
what is tight and wrong, from a
moral and ethical point of view,
clothe them and send them to
school, they have done all that is
required of them, and that the
children will do the rest them
selves and make a success in life.”
Mothers of culture and educa
tion are to be found ail about us
who have allowed their little sons
to pass through he formative
period of childhood without one
distinguishing trait of habit of re
fined, considerate manhood, and
who consider the brusqueness and
boorish deportment of their off
spring as natural phases of boy
hood, which will be eventually
outgrown. In America, children
are allowed to occupy an unnatural
position in the home, and are per
mitted to demand favors of their
elders. where foreign children
gently request; to dispute, and
flatly contradict. where others
would only question or remain
silent, and to sit in the presence
of their parents and grandparents
" ithout waiting for permission or
observing whether any one is dis
commoded by their conduct.
Mothers permit their little sons
to interrup conversation; to enter
a room noisily, without removing
their hats; to be first at the table,
without showing the courtesy of
senting the mother or sister or
guest, and to air their, ideas and
opinions aggressively in the pres
ence of older people.
The very greatest work a woman
can do on earth is to guide and
train the mind and manners of a
little child into gentleness, kindli
ness. courtesy, consideration, po
liteness. respect and reverence for
whatever is great and good, and to
teach the embryo man or woman
those small refinements of deport
ment which mean so much in life.
No matter what other work a
mother may be doing in the world,
if she is neglecting this work,
which is the work God has given
her. she is miserably failing as an
individual and a citizen, as well as
a mother.
Not One Woman in 100
Is a Scientific Mother.
However bright a boy may be in
his lessons, however he may excel
in tlte athletic field, he is not
growing into admirable and excel
lent manhood unless ho is receiv
ing the delicate ami gracious
touches of education which a
mother should consider it her great
privilege to give. But this can
not be given in a day or a year. It
must be done day by day and year
by year, unobtrusively and tactful
ly. until the child has absorbed the
w holesome and refining system un
consciously. And we do not find
one American mother in one hun
dred who is unselfish and patient
enough to bestow so much time and
thought on the profession of scien
tific motherhood.
into Albemarle and Pimlico sounds,
touched at Roanoke island and re
turned to England.
The following year (1555) Ra
leigh sent out a colony of a hun
dred or more men under Lane to
make the beginning of a settle
ment. but nothing came of it, and
the temnants of the colony were
taken back to England by the old
sea fighter Drake.
I nwilllng to abandon the project
that was so dear to him, Raleigh, in
the spring of 1557. made still an
other attempt, sending out some 150
men and 17 women under the gov
ernorship of John White. The set
tlers reached Roanoke island the
last ot July, and there, on August
17. was born Virginia Dare, the
daughter of Ananias and Eleanor
Dare.
Whites settlement perished, be
ing known in history as the "Lost
Polony " Says Eiske: "When the
Jamestown settlers came they were
told by the Indians that the white
people 1< ft nt Roanoke had mingled
v. ith the natives and lived with
them for some yearn-vn amicable
■■ of
certain medicine men. they had all
been murdered, except four men.
two boy s and a young woman, who
were spared by order of a chief
" act hr i this oung " oman tun
' rgtnta Dm- the first American
' • batt no nitons of know
ing. '
