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f THE HOME PARER WINIFRED BLACK Writes on The Forty-Doilar Bill and the Hat Wear What You Can Afford, She Says, Look as Nice as You Can; Tell Your Husband the Truth About Your Bills and Let It Go at That. If Mr. Wilson has decided upon the Federalist policy of Presidential interference in purely State matters it is singular that he should have waited so long before returning to the some what recent campaign in his own State of New Jersey. There are some things for which Mr. Wilson was responsible when he was Governor of New Jersey that would fully have justified an attempt on his part to remedy after he became President of the United States. There are some acts which he committed while in authority in New Jersey that he might properly have endeavored to re verse either through his authority at Washington or through personal participation in the politics of New Jersey. New Jersey is a State of level railroad crossings, and every year a toll of death has been taken by the railroad corporations who would rather sacrifice human life than pay the cost neces- I sary to make these crossings safe. When Mr. Wilson ran for Governor of New Jersey he was pledged to correct the conditions which caused this yearly toll of death and to compel the railroads to make their crossings safe. ! In accordance with the party’s pledges, the Legislature of New Jersey passed a bill compelling the railroads either to ele- j vate or to depress their crossings, so that travelers by road, on foot, in wagons or in automobiles, could pass without this con- I stant risk of destruction. But the national convention was approaching, and Mr. Wil son apparently desired the support of the powerful railroads that passed through New Jersey in his campaign for the Presi dential nomination. The bill that the Legislature had prepared in the interest of the safety of the public was not an unjust bill. It was not a stringent bill. It was not even a radical bill. It compelled the railroads to make safe only a small proportion of the crossings every year. It inflicted no hardship upon the railroads. It called for no immediate and exhaustive expenditure. IT MERELY PROVIDED THAT MURDER SHOULD NO LONGER BE PER-' MITTED IN ORDER THAT THE RAILROADS COULD SAVE MONEY.- But Mr. Wilson vetoed the bill, and out of the veto message, j in full view of the astonished legislators, fell a note from Robert W De Forest, the railroad attorney, advising Mr. Wilson how to act in the best interests of the railroads. After the veto of the bill the New Jersey Central, the Lacka wanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Erie and the Pennsylvania rail roads became peculiarly enthusiastic and active in Mr. Wilson’s support, and A Mitchell Palmer, the attorney for the Pennsyl vania Railroad, led the railroad forces in the Baltimore conven tion in support of Mr. Wilson, and with the aid of ‘ ‘ Tom ’ ’ Tag gart, the gambling boss of Indiana, and Roger Sullivan, the cor rupt corporation boss of Illinois, nominated Mr. Wilson on the Democratic ticket for President of the United States. By WINIFRED BLACK. Y OU paid forty dollars for the hat, and you knew all the while you couldn’t afford more than fifteen, and your hus band laughed when you wore it home, and didn't care very much for it after all. and now the bill’s come home and you are afraid to *«how it to him—and when you come to look at the hat it isn’t a thing but a common-place straw, with a twist of ribbon and a foolish, lanky feather bobbing like something that is broken loose from somewhere—and what, oh, what, shall you do? Take it to the milliners and try to make them take it back? Per ish the thought. You bought it, didn’t you. of your own. at least, partially free will; they didn't make you get it. they just flattered and cajoled and* smiled and twitted you into it—eh? It’s a Way They Have. Well, it’s a way they have in shops especially at the hat time of the year; you knew that when you went, didn't you? Crops with the girl who irtade you buy it, when you really knew all the time—dear, dear, what’s • the use of that, she’s there to do just that very thing, that's what they pay her for. She gets a sal ary to make fifteen-dollar women buy forty-dollar hats, and then go ^onae and cry about it. Why not?;'The girl has to have hats herself, you know, and she’s got to earn the money some way to pay for them. No. it’s your own fault—poor you—poor, vain, foolish, easily led you; you’ve had your dance, now pay the fiddler. 1 know how you feel, my child; there i**n’t a woman living who doesn’t know exactly how your heart beats every time you think of telling Husband about that aw ful bill, especially when he doesn’t like the hat, but don't try to gel out of that. She Was Afraid. The bill is bad enough, it would be twice as bad to deceive him about it. I know a man who almost com mitted suicide once because his wife was deceiving him about a milliner’s bill. That’s the way it began, anyhow. She was afraid to let him .«ee the bill and she cried and moped and acted queer, and one clay, when he came home arid found her weeping, he had just seen an old sweetheart of hers going out of the public door of the apartment where he and his wife lived, and he tried to make her tell about the old sweetheart and she wouldn’t, because she didn’t know a thing about him and cared less, and Husband was jealous and cross and unkind, and .‘he thought he found out about the bill and was taking that way to frighten her, and she hated him for it, arid she wasn’t very well anyhow, and she just ran away home to mother for a few days, and Husband thought she was in love with the other man and. oh, what a time over just such nonsense as this very thing, and, when it all came out, how ashamed they both were of themselves—and each other. High strung, of course, they were; every one is high strung w hen every one is in love; there’s nothing sensible about love, you know, never was and never will be; that’s what makes it so sweet. But there’s something honest about it, or ought to be, and you be honest with your hus band about that bill and get it oft your mind this very day. Poor Things! We’re all gumps about clothes, we women. We think they mean such a lot more than they really do; clothes are all right, but the woman who wears them is worth ten times as much as any ab surd hat that was ever sold un der false pretenses or true ones, either, for that matter. It isn’t your clothes your hus band loves—it's you. Don’t let any milliner or dressmaker on earth make you believe any dif ferent; poor things, they live in such an atmosphere of fuss and feathers, and dingle-dangles and fingle-fangles that they don't know theta's a great big whole some world outside that hardly knows or cares whether skirts are tight this year or ample. Wear w hat you can afford, look as nice as you can, tell husband the truth about your bills, and let it' go at that, in that road lies your happiness; take your husband's hand and walk in it, happily and truly. L’Envoi of the Tariff By MILTON GNITT. W HEN the last tariff schedule is settled And the bill, duly signed, is the law; When the final oration’s concluded On products, both finished and raw — We shall rest. and. faith, we shall need it. Lie down for a moment or two, And dream of the benefits coming. To me—little Me—and to you. And they that have tinkered the tariff Shall rest on their laurels so green; And they that have not shall be silent— Shall neither be heard nor be seen. » And the famous consumer ul-ti-mate Shall wax full of ecstatic joy, His horizon blossomed w ith rainbows. His happiness minus alloy. And the high cost of living shall tremble As though it were destined to fall; And the trusts, predatory and mighty. Shall trim all their sails for a ‘-qual^. And the housewife shall hike to the market. Her heart overflowing with glee, And when she gets ready to purchase— We THEN shall SEE what we shall SEE! And they that have meat and would sell it At prices of yore shall be snubbed; And they that have bread and potatoes At more than half fare shall be drubbed. And the milkman shall fill up our bottles At two-thirds reduction, or more. Ah. good times not oniy should reign, sir — They most pos-i-tively should pour! For the goat for our troubles these ages Has been the old tariff—gadzooks! We’ve cussed it in papers and books. And if. when we’ve fixed it up proper. We still have to labor for gain, We'll grow pessimistic and scornful. And be disappointed—that’s plain! Or. if we should wake up, or waken (This question £>f grammar is punk!) From our beautiful dream and discover That we have been handed a bunk! Say. what shall we do for an ”issue” To ginger another campaign? If tariff revision’s a sham—Gee! Shall we ever be happy again? EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday * By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. lki ftred as se«r»nd-cla«s matter at postoffiee at Atlanta, under ;irt of March 3.1*73 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, to cents a week. By mail, $6.00 a year. Payable in Advance. A Campaign Which Might HaveJustified President Wil son's Gallery Play. Some Days Must Be Dark and Dreary Mr. Wilson has been elected President, and since the 5th of November, 1912, he need no longer have considered the inter ests of the railroads in preference to the rights and lives of the people. Yet Mr. Wilson did not return to New Jersey in time to par ticipate in the campaign which has lately been successfully car ried on to eliminate the murderous railroad crossings. That ob ject was successfully achieved without either the influence or the attendance of Mr. Wilson, and a Democratic Legislature and a Democratic Governor passed and signed and wrote upon the statute books of New Jersey the law controlling the railroad companies and protecting the people, which Mr. Wilson, as Gov ernor of New Jersey, had vetoed. Between the time of Mr. Wilson’s veto of the bill which would have stopped these railway crossing murders and the present day, FIFTY TWO persons have been killed and NINE TY-NINE mutilated at these level railway crossings in New Jersey. The lives of these men and women and helpless children will seem to many citizens rather a high price to pay even for a nomi nation for the Presidency of the United States, and an endeavor to correct this murderous evil would have appeared to true Democrats about the only justification for a President’s active interference in a State’s politics. Intelligent and conscientious citizens—even though State's- Rights Democrats—would have fully understood and condoned an impulse on the part of Mr. Wilson to atonement and expi ation in the matter of these railroad murders. But if Mr. Wilson's purpose is merely to oppose bosses, these same intelligent citizens will wonder why he does not be gin with a campaign against the notorious Tom” Taggart, the gambling boss of Indiana, or a crusade against ‘’Jolly Roger” Sullivan, the corrupt corporation boss of Illinois. Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Protecting Lives of Birds PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS Edgar Allan Poe had consider able imagination but he is a min or leaguer beside the man who draws the pictures for seed cata logues. • • • The scientist who claims that baseball fans do not exercise has not had the misfortune to sit be side a rooter giving vent to his inmost thoughts. • • • The number of cocktails con sumed in Jack Ixmdon’s latest literary effort causes some doubt as to whether it is a sermon or a boast. • * • • Society women are wearing gowns to match their jewelry, whereas our classic dancers sim ply wear Jewelry. ... It must he comforting for a sheep to know that when her soul has passed into the Great Beyond her earthly remains will he kgown on the menu as sprinp lamb. • • * It Is said that Americans do not appreciate art. and yet half a hun dred of our bus\ citizens* will pause in their labors to watch an artist in the act of painting a sign A man may be an utter coward in some respects and still be in ti epid enough to wear ihe first straw hat at the first hint of spring. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1913, by Star Company. T HAT is great and good work which is being done by the widow of one of America’s multi-millionaires, Mrs. Russell Bage. By a special contribution to the Audubon Society in one year, she gave systematic instruction to 10,600 children in bird lore. Here are some facts about birds and their value to the world which these children learn, but which o|der people do not know or else there could be no such wanton destruction of our beautiful birds as now exists. Ninety per cent of the normal bird life of this country has al ready been destroyed, and the other 10 per cent will go in the next five years unless drastic measures are employed to stop the slaughter. The farmers and fniit growers of this country are losing over $1,000,000,000 a year by reason of the ravages of in sects. Here are a few items in this appalling expense account: Quail Nearly Exterminated. The cotton growers of Texas are losing $40,000,000 to $50,000,- 000 a year by reason of the rav ages of the boll weevil; and all because the quail and the prairie thicken, the natural enemies of that bug. have been practically exterminated in that great State. The cotton boll weevil is moving like a great army to the east ward and to the northward, and scientists sent down there to study the situation tell us it will 'go to the Atlantic Ocean before it stops, and as far north as cot ton is grown. UNLESS all killing of birds is prohibited. The wheat growers of the United States are losing over $100,000,000 a year by reason of the ravages of the cinch bug. Why? Because the quail, the natural enemy of that bug. has been al most exterminated. The farmers »>f th< Midde and Eastern States arc paying out $16,000,000 a year for Paris green to put on their potato vines. Why? Because the quail, the natural enemy of that bug. has been killed off. Each of the great apple pro ducing States is paying $1,000,« ties, cucumber beetles and house flies, practically all of which are caught on the wing. Otto Widman says 32 parent martins made 3,277 visits to their young with insects in one day. C. C. Musselman saw martins feed their young 312 times in sixteen hours. Mr. Mosher made a record of a pair of yellow throat warblers eating plant lice in a birch tree at a rate of sixty- eight a minute for forty minutes. At this rate, this one pair of birds would destroy 73,000 of these in sects in a week. Harvey found 500 mosquitoes in the stomach of a nighthawk and sixty grasshoppers in that of an other bird of the same species. A scarlet tanager ate thirty-five gypsy moth caterpillars a minute for eighteen minutes; a warbler ate ninety plant lice in a minute, and a pair fed at this rate for forty minutes. A red-winged blackbird had twenty-eight cut worms in its stomach. ' Birds Eat Caterpillars. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. 000 to $3,000,000 a year for spray ing apple trees, to keep down the coddling moth. Why? Because the woodpeckers, the sapsuckers, the robins, the bluejays. the blue birds, the orioles, the tanagers and other birds that formerly preyed on that insect have been killed off. And every man. wom an and child who eats an apple or a potato helps to pay for this poison, llere are a few records as to the value of certain bug eaters: A quail killed in a cotton field in Texas had in his craw the remains of 127 cotton boll wee vils. Another killed in a potato field in Pennsylvania had in his craw the remains of 101 potato bugs. Another killed in a Kansas wheat field had in its crop the re mains of over 1.200 chinch bugs. House martins, swallows and swifts cat rose beetles, May bee- Fifty-one species of birds are known to eat hairy caterpillars, and thirty-eight species feed on plant lice. It is estimated that during the stay of the birds in New York State each season they destroy more than 3,000,000 bushels of noxious insects. Think of the consequences if the birds were all exterminated. And yet the slaughter of the birds goes on. .In a single season 40,000 terns were killed at Cape Cod. Massa chusetts. in order that their skins might adorn the headgear of fash ionable women. The swamps in Florida have been totally depop ulated of their egrets and herons. In one month over 1,000,000 bobo links were killed, on the marshes near Philadelphia by so-called sportsmen, who call these feath ered songsters reed birds. And besides being one of our sweet est singers, the bobolink is one of the most industrious bug eaters we have. In the Southern States both the robin and the bobolink are classed as game birds, and slaughtered by thousands all through the winter. Mrs. Margaret M. Nice, of Cambridge, Mass., has made an exhaustive study of the food of the Bob White. Instead of killing the birds arid analyzing the con tents of the crop, she worked by the living feeding test method. That is, she has offered different foods to the birds and has count ed and weighed the amount eaten. The total food for a day forms a natural unit in this work, and a great many of these daily die taries have been studied. Laying Hen Devours Bugs. Among them we may quote a few: 1,350 house flies, eaten in • one day by a laying hen, along with weed seeds and green food; also another time 5,000 aphids and 1.285 rose slugs, 37 grass hoppers and 2,400 seeds of pigeon grass, by a six-week-old chick; also 65 large black crickets. Fitch once computed the num ber of plant lice on a single cher ry tree to be 12,000,000. Chinch bugs have been found in a small clump of bunch grass eight inches in diameter to the num ber of 20.000. J. F. Parker, of Manhattan. Kans., says he count ed 6.000 under similar conditions, but had to desist on account of more pressing duties. Riley once computed that the hop aphis, de veloping thirteen generations in a single year, would, if unchecked Ho the end of the twelfth genera tion. have multiplied to the num ber of ten sextillions. A Great Work. Surely it is great work for a good woman to do, this educating the growing generation in a knowledge of the value of birds to the prosperity of the country. No little girl so educated can grow up with a desire to decorate her hat with dead birds; and no boy can ask for a gun in order to amuse himself with killing birds, if he is taught the industrial side of this question as well as the humane side.