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I The South Is Astride a Wave
of Prosperity
RUM
The Last Decade Has Witnessed a Marvellous Growth—ls There
Any Reason Why the Next Ten Years Shall Not Sec an
Even Greater Advance?
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What has the South clone materially in the past ten years?
What will the South do in the next ten years’
These are questions that interest not only the South, but, the
whole of this great republic- for the eves of the nation are on
the South today as they never have been before.
The South today is employing $3,397,006,1100 of capital in
manufacturing go.ods t?\the value of $3,800,001 >.OOO annually—
more than double the figures of ten years ago.
Upon $9,000,000,000 worth of land, agricultural products to
the extent of $3,000,000,000 are being raised every year -a gain
more than double the figures of ton years ago.
It is so all the way along the line. Every interest is ad
vancing with giant’s strides—manufacturing, agriculture, the cut
ting of lumber, mining, quarrying—even the fresh and salt water
fisheries are yielding today $20,000,000 annually to the South.
Tn the matter of bank clearings, the South lias quadrupled its
clearings of ten years ago.
The present wealth of the South if $12,000,000,000 greater
today than was the wealth of the entire nation in 1860.
These figures might be carried forward indefinitely and into
ultimate detail the answer would be the same at every’ turning. ■
The South has more than doubled itself in wealth in the past I
ten years
What, then, will the South do in another ten years?
Rather would it be easier to answer, What will the South
NOT do in another ten years?
The South today’ is manufacturing $3,800,000,000 of goods—
in ten years it will manufacture $12,000,000,01X1. Perhaps more
—for the South will progress in the next ten years to an mi- I
paralleled extent. It will advance far beyond the dreams of ten
years ago!
The South, which once was an agricultural section exclusive
ly’, still is an agricultural section—but it is more. It is a manu
facturing section now—ten years from now it will be THE
manufacturing center of the Union.
The South will benefit by the opening of the Panama canal
as no other portion of the country can hope to. The reasons i
why this is true are so apparent that they need not be stated
here.
The achievements of thy South from 1902 to 1912 have been
amazing. Its prosperity’ has arrested the attention of the world.
But as wonderful and as convincing as the progress of the.
South has been in the past ten years, it is small beside the show
ing the next ten years will make.
Dixie land is the land of cotton’’—Dixie land is that—but
Dixie land also is the land of the spindle and the loom, the roll
ing mill and the furnace, the sawmill and the crate factory, the
fruit cannery and the coke even, the marble quarry and the
coal mine, the oil mill and the tobacco factory, the petroleum
well and the pecan grove, the stock farm and the peach orchard!
It is the land of banks and trust companies, of railroads and
boat lines, of electricity and water power—it is the land of plen
ty, and more!
The South of teu years heuce will be the greatest, grandest,
wealthiest, happiest South “Uncle Sam’’ has loved to call his
own.
Advising College “Infants" |
With almost heartless indifference for the feelings of those
most important individuals, college freshmen and sophomores.
President James, of Illinois university, speaks of them as' “in
fants.’’ And he continues:
"Many failures in college work of the first two years can be directly
traced to alcohol and tobacco. Seniors and Juniors might build up an excel
lent tradition If they would prohibit freshmen and sophomores from smoking
and drinking."
President James believes there is a time and place for all
things, and lie warns his charges that they can learn to play
poker at any crossroads, whereas what, they can do better at
college than anywhere else is to develop their intellects.
This will probably seem hard to the “infants,” whose ideas
of importance are concentrated in a pipe, a flaring hat band and
a knowledge of “draw.” but it is good, sound doctrine, just the
same.
j Divorce and the Can Opener |
Some sttange things have a subtle and secret relationship,
but where is there a greater mystery than the affinity between
divorce and the can opener?
Missouri clubwomen hav< agreed that bad cooking not only
affects a man's stomach, but also his disposition, and they pro
pose. therefore, to teach their sisters to do something besides
opening cans and frying potatoes
A lecturer will spend a year traveling through the state
showing its women how to cook, on the principle that it’s much
easier to love nd .'her sh a I cook than a l>ad on-
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A Travesty on Marriage
Bishop hughes says that •
Mrs Wentworth, the Boston
Socialist, who gave her hus
band up to her friend, Is a wicked
woman, as well as a foolish one.
"The whole affair is a travesty
on marriage,’' says the bishop.
"What is the world coming to when
such a woman as that can be ad
mired, nay, even honored, for doing
such a tiling?”
Well, I'm afraid none of us, even
the wisest, has really much o's an
idea as to what the world is com
ing to, but it certainly is a strange
affair, this affair of the wife who
gives her husband up to another
woman and that she is perfect
ly happy to do it.
Wife Gave Bride Away.
I know a woman who did this
very very same tiling, a brilliant
woman, close akin to genius.
The woman's friend fell in love
with the woman's husband, and the
woman said, "There, little girl;
don’t cry." when the friend tried
to slip away before any harm came
of it. "I've seen it from the very
tlrst. and lam glad. lam not hap
py with this man; iie isn’t happy
with me. Why should we both be
miserable, to say nothing to you?
Why don't you send me away and
marry each other?”
Which was. after some delibera
tion and much discussion, exactly
what they did. (inly the wife came
home at the last minute and gave
the bride away at the wedding.
And some said, "How horrible!"
and some said. "How noble!” and
some said. "How tragic!" and some
said. “How funny!" and the wom
an's friend and the woman's hus
band went away to live and were
apparently very, very happy .
And this is the whole queer part
of the whole queer story, to the;
They took the woman's little girl
with them to a foreign country,
where she would not see her moth
er once in six years or so, and ti:v
mother was glad' to have her go.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Id. 1912.
By WINIFRED BLACK.
* and the little girl was glad to go.
There is the whole truth about
the whole affair. I don’t know how
to explain it exactly—but there it Is.
Made Name For Herself.
The woman was a clever woman,
an honest woman, and, according to
her ideas, a conscientious woman;
:: Countries ::
By GEORGETTE AGNEW.
aHE country of my father was the
1 stern, brave north.
Where hillocks give but heather
and the heights stand forth
In jagged peaks and eerie that the
witches haunt.
That rise above dark castles on their
sides hung gaunt.
Oh, the country of my father was the
stern, brave north!
The country of my mother was the
warm, soft south.
Where date palms fruit in plenty and .
the curving mouth
of many a bay and crecklet calls the
gentle sea
To shores of clusters d olive aWd the
almond tree.
Oh. the country of my mother was the;
warm, soft south*
The country of my dearest was the
fresh green land
Where buttercups love dancing at the
winds command.
And little leaves blow whispers which
of promise tell.
And fairies play at moontime in the
meadow dell.
Oh. the country of my dearest was the
fresh, green land!
The country of my dreaming was the
sunset sky
Where lonely isles of coral and lonely
lakes He,
\V here thoughts take shape in colors
mingled sad and gay,
And vanished hopes have houses in
far away
Ol- the count, y of ;tiy ... ring xws
thi sunset .sky •
■ but she didn't seem to know how to
love, and, not knowing how to love,
she didn't know how to suffer, and,
not knowing how to suffer, she was
quite happy in her way, so long as
she had a chance to do what she
called “live her own life.”
She lived her own life success
fully. too, and made a name for
herself, which she never could have
made if she had been what she
called "hampered'.with the husband
and the little girl, and she was and
is still, I hear, surrounded with ad
mirers—men and women—who
make a little court for her and call
her a queen.
They were quite comfortable and
sensible about it, they said. They
took a good deal of pains to say
it, I thought—the husband, the wife
and the wife’s friend now not a
wife at all. But I don’t think it will
last. Things that are not right
never do last.
The little girl didn’t say a word.
1 keep wondering what she thought.
The little girl—she's the one I am
interested in, for she will in the
course of nature live when the rest
are gone. It is her fate to hand the
torch of life on and on again when
the other three are quite in their
graves. What sort of children will
that child's children be?
She’s the Only One That Counts.
Will they believe in marriage un
til death do them part, or look upon
It only as an experiment? Will they
believe that duty is duty, no mat
ter how many people it kills, or
will they think that divorce an
swers all the hard questions we hear
in the matrimonial witness box?
I wonder and wonder; for. after
all. the little girl is the only one
who really counts much in such a
case—isn't she'.’
I wish I knew how she felt about
it all, and how she will feel when
sne is a wqman and knows what
now she only vaguely feels
THE HOME PAPER
Judge Wm. D. Ellis
Writes on
The Divorce W
Evil gev I
Drunkenness and the £
Money Craze Cause of
Much Domestic Trou-
ble —Divorces Too
Easy to Procure. ; •
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Judge Wm. D. Ellis
Os the Atlanta Circuit.
ARTICLE 11. <’
Probably for the good of society
divorce ought to be allowed. No I
decent man ought to be yoked to a
harlot, and no virtuous woman to
a brute. But the grounds for di
vorce are, in my opinion, too nu
merous, and the facilities for ob
taining them are too great. In
some of the states the facility for
dissolving this most Important of
all domestic relations Is so ab
surdly easy and quick that there Is
an approach to a dissolution of mar
riage at the will of the parties. This
tends to marriage at will, marriage
on trial and eventually to free love,
so-called.
Human experience has long derm
onstrated the impossibility of com
pletely eradicating the social evil;
the attempt has been made off and
on for more than twenty centuries,
and almost every possible method
has been tried. Yet the evil still ex
ists, and there are many good peo
ple who have come to advocate reg
ulation, while others believe in seg
regation. and others In laws which
are more deterrent than prohibi
tive. As great as the evil is. there
has never yet been a complete sup
pression and perhaps there never
will be, but the laws universally
aimed against it have, at least, been
deterrertt.
Drunkenness Causes Trouble.
Drunkenness is a great and long
existing evil. All sorts of expedi
ents have been resorted to for pre
venting it, and the most severe
penalties have been enacted to pre
vent the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors, and yet there
are few, if any, places where the
use and abuse of liquor have been
successfully prevented. So we have
with us drunkenness as an ever
present evil, and the best so far
done is to pass laws deterrent and
to elevate humanity beyond and
above the drunkard. I believe from
many years of observation that
drunkenness is on the decline; not
so much from prohibition statutes
as from education and a change in
public opinion from the old idea
that "the hero of a feast is the last
man up at the table.”
So with divorce—the evil can
not be eradicated, perhaps ought
not to be attempted, but It can and
certainly ought to be curtailed.
Take the state of South Carolina,
and there no divorces for any cause
are allowed. It is true that a good
many people move from that state
to other states and get divorces, but
the fact remains that there are
fewer separations between husband
and wife in that state than in oth
er states where the facilities for
getting divorce are easy and quick.
Money Origin of Divorce.
Money Is a frequent, very fre
quent. origin of divorce. The edu
cation of the people all over the
civilized world increases the desire
for ease and comfort, the desire to
keep up with the procession, and 1
failure to provide the wherewithal
provokes unrest, promotes dissatls- j
faction, leads to extravagance and
Jesuits In "family jars.” If a man
does not. or can not. make enough
money, the wife in many cases feels
aggrieved and seeks counsel from
her neighbors. Unfortunately, the
advice comes to separate, get ali
mony, temporary and permanent,
then a divorce and another chance --
j :: The Shopper ::
By JAMES W. M’GEE.
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Rt STLE of silks and a breeze of perfume,
feeling of awe as she enters the room,
A ha R hour wasted in viewing the styles,
A curt Thank you, miss,” and a dash through the aisles,
Some bright colored silks have attracted her now;
The salesman approaches and stops with a bow
• The fabric feels good, but the shades aren’t right,
The darks are too dark and the lights are too light.”
' I hear rugs are scarce on account of the war
And I’m looking for one that would match my boudoir,”
I She confides to the man who, alert for a mJ®,
Turns his stock inside out, but le destined to fan
"The shoes I desire must be handsome but strong,
A heel not too high and a toe not too long,
1 think what I'd like Is a number two lace,
But I don’t see a suitable shoe; in the place.”
Some smart English gloves are the next thing she sees—
"l'd juj?t like to try on a pair, if you please;’*
j On goes every color from purple to cream,
But the pair she selects has a flaw in the seain.
[ She wanders along pricing this thing and that.
From an Indian canoe to a French beaver hat, ’
Till at la.-., tired out at the close of the day.
She expends fifteen cents for a pistgohe frappe.
j- in the so-called lottery of marriage.
Instead of bringing his earnings
or his salary home, the husband,
alas, too often spends it for drink
I or at the gaming table, and this
does authorize a protest from the
wife. But she should not turn from
persuasion and further effort to the
divorce lawyer and the courts.
Another frequent cause is that,
in this day and generation, our peo
ple are constantly' on the move. The
love of home—the family nest —the
; place where children are born and
ought to be taught to revere, Is all
affected injuriously by change. The
husband goes, he works In other or
many places, he gets weaned from
home, and I have seen many cases
where husbands have sued their
wives for desertion, served the suits
by publication and obtained ver
dicts, where, in all probability, the
wife never heard of the suit and
probably was anxiously awaiting
his return to her and his children.
Undefended Divorce Cases.
About 90 per cent of divorce suits
are not defended. In many case?
they are collusive, and if this could
be made to appear, no divorce could
or would be granted. But, under
the statutes of most, if not all, the
states, such cases proceed ex parte,
and in this state, for example, ex
cept in case of adultery, a total di
vorce may be obtained on the un
corroborated evidence of the com
plaining party.
Cruel treatment, so far as my ob
servation goes, is by far the great
est ground for divorce. That Is u
broad and comprehensive term. Our
supreme court has defined crue
treatment to be the willful Inflic
tion of pain, either bodily or men
tai, upon the complaining party, to
the extent of causing a reasonable
apprehension of injury to the life,
limb or health of such oomplain- *
ant. This broad charge, and the
discretion left to the jury or to the
court, backed up by the absence of
any defense, leaves the question
too much open to sympathy'
aroused by' the harrowing details
of domestic Infelicity, as presented
by’ the wife or
the apparently afflicted husband.
Husband Appears Later.
In Georgia It Is left to the dis
cretion of the jury to say whether
or not the disabilities of the de
fendant shall be removed, and gen
erally, In undefended cases, the
plaintiff makes out such a case as
causes the jury to refuse to re
move the disability and allow the
defendant to remarry. For Instance,
the wife gets on the witness stand
and testifies that the husband Is
a brute or a drunkard or a deserter,
the verdict fails to allow him the
right to marry' again, and at the
next term of the court he comes in
with a petition for the removal of
his disabilities, and tells hts side
of the case, and demonstrates that
his wife was a termagant, and he
himself so Inoffensive, so chlldliko
and bland that no divorce ought
ever to have been granted to her,
and that he ought to be allowed to
take another chance and get a wife
worthy of hie affectionate care and
devotion.
And so with the husband seeking
a divorce. When she asks for re
moval of her disabilities, she shows
that instead of deserting him she
was the victim of abandonment by
• him.