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Why an Extra Session of
Congress Is Necessary
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The People Voted for Mr. Wilson for Action, and Now He Is
Planning to Have Congress Revise the Tariff Without Delay.
AJr. Wilson announces that he will call an extra session of :
congress—to convene not later than April 15—as soon as he be- |
comes president. The session will be held for the purpose of re- <
vising the tariff. |
The Georgian has never urged upon Mr. Wilson the neces- |
sity for an extra session because there seemed to be no doubt ;
of his course. To have waited until the congress elected with
President Wilson convenes in regular session, 54 weeks from ;
now. would have been to postpone the inevitable tariff revision
until the spring or summer of 1914—the year of the next general
election for congress. The fate of the Harrison congress that
made that mistake with the “McKinley hill.” and the fate of the
’Cleveland congress with the Wilson bill, are sufficient warning
against procrastination.
If the people wished to “stand pat’’ they would have elected
Mr. Taft. If they wished to wait for a new tariff commission to
report two or three years hence, they could have adopted that
course by electing Mr. Roosevelt.
But they voted for Mr. Wilson and for action. They expect
something to be done. Among other things, they hope for prompt,
judicious and discriminating modification of the tariff in away
carefully calculated to benefit all the people of the United States —
employers, producers, laborers and consumers.
All the active members of the present congress who took part
in framing the.moderate tariff bills on which the Democratic party
appealed to the country one year ago—the bills which President
Taft vetoed—are members of the new congress. They can revise
their own work in the light of later information and in accord with
newer estimates of revenue required by the government, and a care- ;
fully revised hill should pass the house by May 1 next. The senate ;
will be slower, but as a majority of the present, senators voted for
the bills signed by Speaker ('lark in the house last year, there is no ;
reason to doubt that the new, more Democratic, and more progres
sive senate will act with reasonable expedition.
Our one coro.ern is not that congress will delay—we do not see ;
how it can. Our fear is that it will neglect reciprocity, and neglect
preferential duties—both cardinal Democratic doctrines —and that ;
it will, by foolish radicalism or old stock free trade arguments, de
lay the return of general prosperity now due.
The house will have a greatly increased Democratic majority.
The fallacies of the Bryan men will have to be voted down just as
the ways and means committee wilely rejected the exploded theo
ries which Mr. Bryan quarreled with Speaker Clark and Represen
tative Underwood for refusing to inject into the recent tariff
measures.
Everything will depend upon the prudent and patriotic leader
ship of Mr. Wilson. He has now the extremely difficult task of
translating the warm but indefinite winged-words of eloquence into
the cold, exact terms of statutes.
Eli ropean Tyranny Defends
the Turk
There would be little difficulty in settling the Turkish prob
lem it it were not for the intrusion -into that problem of the selfish
and sinister interests of two old tyrannies. Europe trembles today
on the verge of a catastrophe that may involve the whole conti
nent, simply because it lacks the moral courage and concord to
set its foot upon the exorbitant claims of Austria and Russia.
The indomitable allies, whose victorious arms have compassed
the whole wretched Turkish land from the Bosphorus to the Adri
atic. could settle the “ncar-Eastern question” for all time if thev
were permitted now. without interference from the great powers,
to take possession of Constantinople and the coveted port on the
Adriatic sea which belongs to Servin by natural necessity and his
| toric right.
But Austria says the conquerors of the Turks must keep away
from the Adriatic. And Russia says they must not take possession
of Constantinople.
Austria draws hard to compel the Triple Alliance to back its
bad cause. And the bad cause of Russia summons the aid of the
1 riple Entente. Phus the tour great progressive nations of Europe
—'Germany, Italy. England ami Erance—are subpenaed to sup
port the schemes of the two most reactionary nations in Europe.
If the four governments that stand for enlightenment and
progress could somehow get together it would be easy to dis
cipline the reactionary governments and compel them to keep
their hands off. In that case the Turk would be left without a
foothold and would be driven conclusively out of Europe.
Probably we shall know this week which way the tide of
European desjiny is to run. We shall see whether the Turkish
problem is to be definitely solved by the elimination of the Turk,
or whether, on the contrary, the Turk is now to put a climax to his
five hundred years of devastation by plunging all Europe into in
, extrirable confusion and an abyss of war.
In ihe latter ease, history will have to record the fact that
an uiisp.-akable disaster to modern civilization was due to the
irresolution of Western Europe in face of the stubborn
am I greed ot two old tyrannies.
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FOUR THINGS COME NOT BACK—
Sped Arrow. ’ Time Past.
The Spoken Word. Neglected Opportunity.
Working For the Boss
A DAY stands in the same rela
tion to 70 years of life as
a copper cent does to a pile
of 51 flve-dollar bills.
It is a good idea to appreciate
what you can do with a penny,
but it makes more character to
learn what to do with a heap of
flve-dollar bills.
Likewise it takes a great charac
ter to live not only from day to
day, but with the full swing of 70
years in mind, even if one does not
live that long.
11.
INVENTORS have always kept
busy trying to make clocks that
run for long periods without wind
ing. Time never stops going on.
And the man who succeeds in mak
ing a clock that will go without
winding for a long period will do
much to teach us the stlmple fact
that Time keeps on moving. Hours,
days, months and years do not
end anything. They are only names
for a ceaseless motion.
I/ots of us live after the old hour
glass fashion, if some one does not
turn us over every 60 minutes, our
sand stops moving.
All of which means this:
Plan for today, but let today’s
plan fall in its place with the gen
eral larger plan you have for years
to come. *
The smaller the job the' more
necessary it is to have this larger
plan.
Don’t stick to it slavishly. Make
it, and keep on changing it.
1 know a merchant who has the
opinion that not one person in a
thousand knows how to manage
money.
"I began,” he said, "to study the
management of my own money
some years ago, and 1 have kept at
it. improving the plan from time
to time. Now, I begin to know
something gbout it.”
Keep beiore you what the boss
expects foi today.
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T’ESDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1912.
Too Late
Drawn By HAL COFFMAN.
Bv THOMAS TAPPER.
That is the first duty.
Then—
Do just a little more than he ex
pects, That is the long pldn scheme.
Then turn about, in your think
ing, and begin to figure out how
much It all serves in pushing you
forward on the big plan.
The next step forward will be
from where, you are
Almost any job will do to start
with, if it is a good jumping point.
If it is not a good jumping point,
it is not a good job.
A store that employs several hun
dreds or thousands of people is full
of possible jumps.
Any one. even down around the
bottom of the ladder, can practice,
and some day astonish everybody
by beating the world’s long-dis
tance jumping record, clearing a
lot of heads as he does it.
111.
'J'HE merchant quoted above said
that few people know how to
spend money.
Just a few people know how to
spend Time.
:: Next of Kin ::
By C. G. RASSETTI.
THE shadows gather ’round me, while you are in the sun:
The day is almost ended, but yours is just begun.
The winds are singing 10 us both and the streams are singing still,
And they till your heart with music, but mine they can not fill.
Your home Is built in sunlight, mine in another day;
Your home is close at hand, sweet friend, but mine is far away.
Your bark is in the haven where you fain would be:
I must launch out into the deep, aqross the unknown sea.
You. white as dove or lily or spirit of the light.
I. stain'd and cold and glad to hid< in the cold dark night.
You. joy to many a loving heart and light to many eyes:
1 lonely in the knowledge earth is full of vanities.
et when your day is over, as mine is nearly done.
And when your race is finish’d, as mine is almost run,
Xou, like me. shall cross your hands and bow your graceful head:
Yea. we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed.
Mr. Arnold Bennett has pointed
out that in the daily gift of Time
we all get- the same allowance. '
But we all do not win the same
results.
Some men make a fortune in 24
hours.
Others make a mess of every
thing in that time, or less.
It is a good scheme to work to
ward next week, and next year,
and to ask what they can supply to
make life more worth while twenty
years hence.
One hour is about four per cent
of a day. If a man at twenty will
devote that, much time regularly to
improving the mind, he will know a
lot worth while, long before he
thinks he needs a pension.
This- is one phase of the “long
plan," and there are many others
possible in a 24-hour day.
Work on the job for all you are
worth. Be a keen observer. Learn
something.
Also —
Walk erect, and breathe through
the nostrils.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on-
The Essence of
Marriage
Prettiness Palls Unless It Is
Backed Up by Intellect. The
Merely Clever Woman Is Near
ly as Bad as the Clever Man.
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By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by Int ernatior.al News Service
A CORRESPONDENT asks me
this: “Do brilliant men pre
fer brilliant women?’’ First,
disclaiming the gentle assumption
that I am brilliant, I say, yes.
The essence of marriage is com
panionship, and the woman you
face across the coffee urn every
morning for 99 years l must be both
able to appreciate your jokes and
to sympathize with your aspira
tions. If this is not so, the man
will stray, actually, or else chase
the ghosts of dead hopes through
the grave yard of his dreams.
Prettiness palls, unless it is
backed up by intellect. The mere
ly clever woman is nearly as bad
as the clever man. All these people
who carry' most of their goods in
the show window are headed. for
jobs at the button counter.
Often They Are Dull.
By brilliant men is meant, of
course, men who have achieved
brilliant things—who can write,
paint, model, orate, plan, manage,
devise and execute. And, by the
way, an executive is a man who
decides quickly—and is sometimes
right.
Brilliant men are but ordinary
men who at intervals are capable
of brilliant performances. Not only
fire they ordinary most of the time,
but often they are dull, perverse,
prejudiced and absurd. However,
they are sometimes right, and this
is better than to be dead wrong all
the time.
So here is the truth: Your ordi
nary man who does the brilliant
things would be ordinary all the
time were it not for the fact that
he is inspired by a woman.
Great thoughts and great deeds
are the children of married minds.
When you find a great man playing
a big part on life’s stage, you'll
find in sight, or just around the
corner, a great woman. Read his
tory!
A man alone is only half a man;
it takes the two to make a whole.
Ideas are bom of parents.
Now, life never did, nor can.
consist in doing brilliant things all
day long. Brilliant men are bril
liant only two hours a day. These
brilliant moments are exceptional.
Life is life to everybody. We must
eat, breathe, sleeg, exercise, bathe,
dress and lace our shoes. We must
be decent to folks, agreeable to
friends, talk when we should and
be silent when we ought.
Work of Women’s Clubs.
To be companionable—fit to Jive
under the same roof with good peo
ple—consists neither in being pret
ty nor clever. It all hinges on the
ability to serve. No man can love
a woman long If she does not help
him carry the burden of life. He
will support her for a few weeks,
Henry VII land Anne Boleyn
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
IT was three hundred and seven
ty-nine years ago that Henry
the Eighth was married to Anne
Boleyn—a pretty ceremony that
kicked up the dust that is not even
yet fairly settled.
After having lived with his first
wife, Catherine of Aragon, for more
than eighteen years—how Cather
ine endured him for so long is one
of the unsolved mysteries of his
tory—Henry began to have “scru
ples” regarding the validity of the
union, and, inasmuch as the scru
ples w’ould not down, he deter
mined to get a divorce.
In plain English, Henry became
enamoured of the pretty but super
ficial and light-headed Anne Boleyn,
the scruples being simply a pre
text for his unlawful passion and
the cold-blooded and Iniquitous
resolve to put away his lawful wife.
All the world knows what snags
the king encountered while seek
ing the divorce, and how, “by hook
or crook" (mostly by crook), he
at last succeeded in getting the doc
ument which released him from
the wife of his youth.
And so. with his “divorce” in his
pocket. Henry proceeded to “mar
ry" the charming maid of honor,
who did not know at the time that
in just a little while she to
have her head cut off by the crea
tures of the man she was marrying
in tire midst of so much pomp and
rejoicing.
Few teats hav u been shed uvet
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4" or possibly years; then if she
doesn’t show' a disposition and
ability to support him. her stock
drops below par.
Robert Louis, the beloved, use<:
to tell of something he called
“charm.” But even his subtle pen,
w'ith all its witchery, could, not
quite describe charm of manner—
that gracious personal quality
which meets people, high or'low.
great or small, rich or poor, and
sends them away benefited, blessed
and refreshed.
Ellen Terry, turned 60, has i
The Duse, homely, positively home
ly in features, rests her chin in
her hand and looks at you and lis
tens in away that captures, cap
tivates and brings again the pleas
ures of past years.
I am encouraged and delighted
when I think of how women every
where are learning to work—work
with head, hands and heart, pre
paring themselves to be fit com
panions of men who are able to do
brilliant things.
The work of women’s clubs ha*
been of vast benefit to men, for it
has cut them out a pace.. Woman
1= no longer a doll, a plaything, a
Teddy bear: she is the intellectual
companion of man, and he must
prepare himself to be her compan
ion and helpmeet. There is no sex
in soul.
Nlen and women must go forward
hand in hand —single file is sav
agery.
Many Degrees of Brilliancy.
A brilliant man Is dependent on a
woman, and the greater he Is the
• more he needs her. The only man
who has no use for a woman Is one
who is not all there—one whom
God has overlooked at the final in
spection.
The brilliant man wants a wife
who is his chum, companion, a
“good fellow,” to whom he can tell
the things he knows. or guesses, or
hopes: one with whom he can be
stupid and foolish —one with whom
he can act out his nature. If she Is
stupid all the time, he will have to
be brilliant, and this will kill them
both. To grin and bear it is grad
ual dissolution; to bear it and not
grin is death.
We are all just children in the
Kindergarten of God, and w’e want
playfellows. If a woman is pretty.
I would say it is no disadvantage
unless she is unable to forget it
But plainness of feature does not
prohibit charm of manner, sinceri
ty, honesty and the ability to be a
good housekeeper and a noble
mother.
There are many' degrees of bril
liancy, but as a general proposition
this holds:
A brilliant man wants a wife who
is intellectually on his wire—one
• • w’ho, when he rings up, responds.
•b Anne Boleyn’s fate, cruel as that
fate was. She made herself a par
ty to the ruin and misery of an
excellent woman, and the misfor
tunes that came to her seemed to
be but the legitimate fruitage of
her unwomanly conduct.
As for the much-married Henry,
the least that is said of him the
better for all concerned. No right
feeling Englishman finds anything
in Henry’s character as a man to
exult over. He was a groat, big.
coarse, senseless, heartless brute oi
a man. and, from the moral view
point. utterly and unreservedly des
picable. But few more unlovely
characters have ever disgraced the
pages of history.
Upon the principles of falrnes
however. It must be admitted tha.
"Bluff King Hal” was a capable
sovereign, had a “true insight in'
the men and measures he had to
deal with, and helped to lead his
country into a new era.”
It was In Henry’s reign that ll
foundation of Britain's naval gl'"'
was laid. It «as in Henry's : "lu '
tiiat England, for the first tim
all her bistorts began to he a "
potter. It was in Henits rio
that the new learning, out of tt 1
was to conie our modern progr>
made a secure footing for itself :
the kingdom.
All of which reminds us m l ’**
forcibly of the saying of • I ' i 1
speare. that “We mat gath< h'
from Hie weed, and make a lau.ral
of the devil himself.”