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If Job Lived in 14th Street
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How Do You Think He Would Behave About Unpractical Pav
ing Joke That Has Been Played There?
Perhaps no group of American citizenry is watching the rapid
progress of aviation with more interest than the residents of West
Fourteenth street. Already they have been forced Io abandon
thrir automobiles a block or Iwo from home and seek their door
steps on foot, ami they can not depend upon a winter rainfall
which wifi guarantee steady motorboating from car line to cozy
corner. The airship is the only hope of the Eourteenth street
inarooners unless a relief expedition is sent out to bring.them back
to civilization before winter sets in.
Students of scientific management could find no better ex
ample of how-not-to-do-it than the paving or non-paving of West
Eourteenth street. They have been led to believe, from the method
of not completing the work, that the contractor is really a plumber
in disgu.se.
About -Inly 1. of the present year, the contractor arrived with
many men and tore the top dressing off that street in a manner
at once energetic and enthusiastic, leaving exposed a soil well irri
gated and admirably adapted to rice culture. This done as a guar
antee of good faith he withdrew his forces to another street whose
residents, with the innocence of an unthinking public, clamored
for his Services.
The stom, which had been dug up from the old street, re
mained for a time, and then a lew negro workmen equipped with
hammers began converting the large rocks into little ones. Some
times there were two workmen, sometimes twenty. It was as
though one attacked Stone Mountain with a tack hammer, but they
feared no odds.
. The stone dressing is there today, and. occasionally, so are
the workmen, two.of them, and both tired. The residents of tlje
street are leaving their ears at the Peachtree corner apd walking
to their homos. Fourteenth street housewives can give no bridge
parties, for guests can only with difficulty find their way to the
hostess. Laundry drivers and grocers’ boys find it convenient to
forget orders rather than climb the granite Alps. Fourteenth street
practically is ent off from civilization. ,
But the residents have hope. They believe that when the can
yon of Peachtree is leveled, when the smoke nuisance is a thing of
the past and the Bleckley plaza is completed, then the contractor
may strike his forehead with his open hand, remember with a start
that he has forgotten something, and go out and finish paving West
Fourteenth street. And even if the present generation does not
profit, surely posterity will be benefited.
The city at large is not specially interested in the plight of
Fourteenth street, annoying and distressing it is to the residents
and users of that NO THOROUGHFARE.
But the city at large IS interested in a system of public im
provements which tears up a street and loaves it impassable for
months, while the squad of Workmen who did the destruction are
gaily flitting from one more such task to another.
The city at large is more than interested
It is disgusted.
Providing for Old Age
Before the eyes of the average man there is but one bugbear
—old age. Tn these days when specialization is inevitable the
spectre of penniless declining years is more to be feared than
formerly by the jacks of all trades.
To the case in point is information imparted to a Chicago
college class by Superintendent Graves, of the King Home for
Old Men.
“Only one man in 10.000.’’he says, “is self-supporting at
seventv. In the United States there are now 1.125,000 former
wage-earners sixty-five and more, dependent upon public and
private charity at a cost of $220,000,000. Moreover, there are
300.000 old men and women in homes whose upkeep costs $50,-
000.000 annually
“Tn these days of efficiency tests when one must measure
from 70 to SO per cent of perfect service to hold his own. in
dustrial old age comes to many who are mentally and physically
able to work.'"
These facts and figures (.each the need of training oneself
how to do what there is to do a little better than the other fel
low. The brain grow < more capable with use. Allowing that wo
have provided for our old age. we ought still to provide against
the mental poverty that is sure to come in the days of enforced
physical idleness
Love Is the Basis of Life
So much is being written and spoken on eugenics that it is
worth while to ponder the words of President David Starr -Jordan,
<»t Leland Stanford I niversity. m regard to what he calls “Bur
banking” the human race.
' I use the phrase ‘Burhanking’, " he says, “to show that, al
though systematic scientific selection of mates could be made to
produce great physical strength, beauty, endurance and even mutual
power, those very persons who might be thus effectively mated
would never submit to state dictation.
>n ” h they would, they must in tinif eliminate »he most vital ele
__ ments in human evolution—love and initiative. Love is the best
basis tor marriage, and love is a very real ami noble thing, in spite
th- baseness of its many imitations
, H is essential that love phall endure, for without it the great
it mu force of the universe would be swept away.
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Making Food in the Laboratory
Is the Time Near at Hand When Chemistry Will Supply AH the Essentials of Life?
'"J H E basis of physical life is a
| substance called protoplasm.
The word protoplasm means
“the first formed." and the idea un
derlying it is that this substance
represents the first step from unliv
ing matter ro living bodies, such
as plants and animals. Everything
that contains protoplasm is alive,
and without protoplasm there is no
life.
That eloquent paladin of science
Thomas H. Huxley used to charm
big audiences with his lecture on
protoplasm. He told his hearers
how the activities 'of a living ani
mal gradually use up its supply of t
protoplasm, and how it is compell
ed to renew it by eating other crea
tures, either animals or plants,
which possess this precious sub
stance. for an animal can not
MAKE protoplasm: it must find it
somewhere and take it HEADY
MADE. The only living things-that
can make their own protoplasm out
of the raw materials of.iiature are
plants. We know what chemical
elements protoplasm contains, but
nevertheless we have not discover
ed the secret of putting them to
gether in such away as actually to
form protoplasm. Plants possess
that secret.
We get protoplasm either by tak
ing it at second hand from animals
which, in their turn, have taken it
primarily from plants. 01 we get it
more directly by ourselves eating
the plants. We start in life with
a certain amount of protoplasm,
which has been supplied to its at i
birth by our patents, but as we use
| it up we are compelled to replace
the waste by eating something
which contains it.
Professor Huxley used to illus-
1 trate this process very amusingly.
He said:
"My protoplasm will be distinct
ly less in amount at the end of this
lecture than it was nt the begin
ning By and by 1 shall probably
have recourse to the substance
commonly called mutton for the
purpose of renewing the supply.
Now. this mutton was once the liv
ing protoplasm, more or less modi
fied. of another animal —a sheep. A
singular Inward laboratory which I
possess will dissolve a certain por
tion of the modified protoplasm:
the solution formed will pass into
my veins, and the subtle influences
to which It will then be subjected
will convert the dead protoplasm
Into living protoplasm, and thus
tt a ns--übstantiate sheep into man
Not is this all If digestion were a
FRIDAY, S KPT EMBER 20. 1912.
By GA RRETT P. SERVISS
thing to be trifled with. 1 might sup
upon lobster, and then. were 1 .1 to
return to my own place by sea
and undergo shipevreck, the crusta
cean might, and probably, .’would,
return the comp'iment, and demon
strate'our common nature by turn
ing my protoplasm into living lob
ster,” ,
Now, if we could make our own
original protoplasm, as plants do,
we might live, like the grass and
the trees, wherever soil and air
and sunlight exist. It .is true’that
they are enableci to do this because
they are fixed in place, but we may
imagine the process carried on by
creatures capable of moving about
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On a Diet
By N. P. BABCOCK.
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D f 1M ES "ere when we wereS]
I? I stricken si
With an ailment or a pain.si
? They gave ns drugs that sicken,
J By the teaspoon or the grain.
? They all were somewhat nasty
t When prescribed for any case.
> And the taste was very lasty.
s And it made you make a face
J But 'twas nothing to the portion j
i of the woes you now must beat, t
i Since the docs have added caution .
; To your other stomach cate.
! You seek some pang to quiet
I That you've never felt since birth.
; Whereupon they older "diet!''
I Which is simply hell on earth.
; All meats they call the red ones.
! And all pastry, cakes and Sweets. i
! Are appetizing "dead ones. '
; In the schedule of your "eats." ;
' The flying pan's aroma
! May no more your sense delight: 1
j A gustatory coma
< is tlie only state that's tight.
; Did anx vegetable
•. Hold a special joy for you.
; You must declare you're able
; Just that one now to eschew
1 All sauces that are pleasant
> Ate a sort of devil's broth;
i You stare like starving peasant
i At a foodless table cloth
' And misety completing
1 Is the rule that's understood:
; "Be regular in eating.
But eat nothina that tastes good." J:
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at will. In that case an army on
the march would never have to
trouble itself about its wagon
. trains. When we went for a day in
rhe country we should not need to
load ourselves with lunch baskets.
We coyld dispense with our broad
fields of wheat and corn, out gar
dens full of vegetables, our or
chards of fruit trees.- We could
abolish forever the nuisance of the
stock yards, checkmate, once for
all, the cornerers of foodstuffs and
put an immediate end to the high
price of living.
But science has tried in vain to
manufacture protoplasm. Never
theless, something has recently
been done in Germany which seems
to offer the promise that, if we
can not actually make protoplasm,
we may be able to turn the corner
by making food which will do its
work. Ur. Abderhalden has suc
ceeded in manufacturing in his lab
oratory a chemical food on which
young dogs have been brought up
strong, healthy and lively—appar
ently Just as good dogs as if they
had been nourished upon their nat
ural food.
Dr. Abderhalden lifts arrived at
this result by first studying the
transformations that take place in
the course of digestion. Finding
that, during this process, certain
peculiar acids are formed, which
act a controlling part in the subse
quent transformations, he set to
work to make these acids artifi
cially. and he says that he has suc
ceeded, and proves his assertion
by the evidence of his dogs. 1
have not heard that lie has. as yet.
tried his chemical food upon man.
but that would naturally be the
next step It would not be worth *
while to strain all the resources of
chemistry simply for the benefit of
dogs.
Ifi fait, animals would, if they
could comprehend the subject, very
gladly lend themselves to such ex
periments. the ultimate result of
which is to free them from the fate
of being killed ami eaten by their
masters. Who knows but lhat
when chemical foods have been
perfected they may be delicious
and so easily digested that any
guormand would turn up his nose
at the most succulent turkey or the
most skillfully cooked lobster?
Seriously, this is a very impor
tant matter. Man. who has so
amazingly emancipated himself
from nature's limitations in the
field of mechanical energy, owes
it to himself to attain a similar
• ■mancipation in regard to the
m <intenam • of his vital energies
And. sonnet or later. HE WILL DO
IT. j
Dorothy D i x
Writes on
Women on
lunes
Justice, She Says, I Ml
Would Be Surer ’
:! With Feminine
ij Counsel and
i| Help.
: . By DOROTHY DIX
AFTER a recent very flagrant
miscarriage of justice in a
I murder trial in which a
j woman was the defendant, the trial
I judge expressed the opinion that it
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would be necessary to have women
, juries to try women criminals, be-
J cause if a woman was young and
i good looking it was practically im
possible to get men to convict her,
no matter how strong the evidence
was against her.
Judge Mary Barteime, the first
woman ever honored with a call to
' the bench in Illinois, who will sit
as associate-judge with Judge Mer
ritt C. Pinckney in the juvenile
court, takes the same view of the
necessity tor woman jurors. She
believes in mixed juries, and says:
The Metamorphosis.
“Women on juries will change
; tots of things for the better. You
I will find that lawyers must depend
' on the legitimate facts if they hope
to impress mixed juries. Women
will puncture a good many bal
loons that prove good for dizzy
flights in the courts nowadays.'’
Undoubtedly both of these dis
tinguished jurists are right. There
is not only room fcr women in the
jury box. but there is a crying need
for them there. Our greatest two
pieces of national humor have been
that in a democracy one-half of the
people hati no voice in government,
and that in a trial by jury, which
guarantees to every one a trial by
liis peers women were tried by.
men.
And this latter joke is given a
further pcrint by the fact that men
frankly admit that they don t un
derstand women and are not up to
the tticks and manners of even the
smalies, girl child.
Il has been said that the strang
est thing on earth is how twelve
intelligent men can get together
and act like one old woman. The
next strange thing is how twelve
hard-headed, practical business
men dissolve into a sentimental
mush when they g'et in a juiy box.
Apparently they don't weigh evi
dence, nor take probabilities into
account, nor .ise any common sense
in judging character and motives if
they are trying a woman. All that
the defense has to do is to talk
platiiudinously about "home and
mother." little children and angel
wings and wronged innocence, and
the jury will file solemnly out and
bring in a verdict of "not guilty."
no matter how clea ly it lias been
proven that the murderess had
committed a cold-blooded and de
t liberate crime. '
The Loophole.
I heir theory is that perhaps she
didn't do it. and if she did'do it she
probably hati good reasons for do
ing it. and the other parti ought
lo have been killed anyway, and,
anyhow , tliej are not going to semi
a woman to the electric chair or to
prison for life, especially If she is
I good looking.
An American jury dealing w ith a
woman criminal is gallantry gone
to seed, but it doesn’t make for
justice, and it does make it per
fectly safe for any lady with golden
hair and a willowy figure to go out
and shoot any man against whom
she gets peeved. Also, it makes it
ptofitable sot other tender young
creatures with blackmailing tend-
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envies to bring breach of ~ omise
suits against wealthy men
It would have a most restraitiirg
influence on both of these types of
the woman criminal if they knew
that they were to be tried before
juries of women instead of jui-: - o f
men. p or a Wolnan knowg ,. iHt
while she may f oo l a man sh, can
never deceive a sister woman. A
woman jury will not care t ~„ ~l pj
whether a murderess i s prettv or
u=fly. or be moved thereby. wom .
an jury will assay at their true
value her tears, and know > .n„ r
she is weeping for effect or. I„ ,, UI s S
her heart is torn with grief. And a
woman jury can tell by a thousand
intangible signs, as no man jury
ever can. whether a woman wit
ness is speaking the truth or not.
7 here is a freemasonry of sv> x n f
which only the members know the
grips and the countersigns.
Nor win women juries a.-cept,
men do. the pathetic tale of how
she has been deceit , d and wronged,
that a middle-aged woman with i
hard painted face gives as her jus
tifleation for killing some man
whom she has taken away from his
wife. Neither will they f , ,| ( .. alled
upon to she.-J many tears over th»
broken heart that asks money to
heal it.
The woman will need a cause to
be just who goes before a woman
Jury. but. on the other hand, there
are matters involving as nice a
judgment as that of Solomon in
which women's sympathy and in
tuition will make for mercy as well
as justice.
Advantages.
1 ertalnly the cases that <ome up
in the children's' court, in which the
relation between parents and chil
dren and childish misdemeanors
must, be settled, should be tried be
lore juries on which there are
mothers, with a mother's knowl
edge of children, and a mother's
heart to feel for other mothers.
Also, it is nothing but fair that
all divorce cases, and cases that in
volve the relations of men and
women, should be tried beifo r e
mixed juries. No woman is capable
of understanding men any more
than a man is capable of unde--
standing a woman, and it needs the
combined wisdom of both to strike
the just mean in such cases.
Another good reason why women
should be on juries is that they
have both time and inclination for
it, whereas men seldom have either
It Is notorious that men wi ! s’
to any length short of perjury ”
evade jury duty, whereas women
would like it.
In every community there are
numbers of women of intellige> lfa >
of good sound judgment, of irre
proachable character, who iia»*
ample leisure, and they might make
a valuable contribution to the slat *
by giving their services as i u '’'
women. Women’s counsel and help
are considered valuable everywher*
else—why not in the court room •
Finally, the proof of the puddin*
is in the eating, and we have r.' l
only theories but facts to go UP* 1
Women juries have been tried ,r
several of the states where worn
have the franchise, and the .iud8 p *
speak with unthnsiawai
and fair vuidicts they ha'* r
turned