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“The Perfect Baby”—What’s It Worth?
The Issues Between Japan and
This Country Constitute Es
sentially a World Question.
On the very day on which Governor Johnson of California
signed the alien land bill came unmistakable evidences that the
sentiment of the entire world of Occidental civilization is sweep
ing to the support not only of the State of California, but of the
United States in upholding the action of that great Common
wealth.
The emphatic declarations of the Hearst newspapers are be
ing echoed and indorsed wherever it is being recognized, as already
both in Great Britain and Germany, that the issues between Japan
and this country constitute ‘ ESSENTIALLY A WORLD QUES
TION.”
These four words from Sir Valentine Chirol, who not so long
ago was received in Tokio with almost diplomatic honor and dom
lolled in a wing of the Japanese Foreign Office, have not been
penned lightly.
"No useful purpose," he tells the British public, "can be
served by blind condemnation of the tendencies of public opinion
in the Western States. They do not spring so much from raoe
hatred as from the instinct of self-preservation. The time has
come when Japan is disposed to challenge the very essence of the
attitude of Western nations toward Asiatics."
There need be no doubt at all that Sir Valentine is entirely in
touch with official British opinion. For twenty years he has been
listened to with attention as a responsible exponent of Eastern
problems. Only last year he was a member of a Royal Commission
on such a subject.
The suggestion, therefore, that "Japan will do well to re
member that her claim to enter a neighbor's garden can at best be
only quietly pursued" carries with it the utmost significance. For
Great Britain, the ally of Japan, has precisely the same problem to
solve, and in more quarters of the globe.
Japan can not demonstrate to the world a civilization equal
to the best of Occidental civilizations by forcing a suicidal war on
her best customer in the world’s markets. That would be an act
of piratical barbarity that would, as is already indicated, instantly
focus on thiB country the moral support of alj white nations. And
Japan is perfectly aware that without the moral support of at
least some of the white nations she could not have prosecuted her
war against Russia, even close to home as it was.
What is now becoming plain to all nations was plain to this
newspaper at the beginning and was plainly stated. California is
. right. It is a WORLD QUESTION. If this country is to be forced
to settle this world question for the rest of the world, as the result
of an act which is already recognized abroad as an act only of self-
p reservation, then at least the United States is assured of the moral
r 'proval and support of all white nations.
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By DOROTHY DIX
Valuable Report on
Vice Conditions
The report on vice conditions'
in New York City, issued by
the committee of which John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., is at the
head, will furnish a basis for
the work of every organization whose purpose is to make its home
city a better and a safer city.
The report is remarkably exhaustive, and proves that those
who were associated with young Mr. Rockefeller in making it
spared neither time nor expense in getting the actual facts, instead
of collating hearsay evidence and jumping at sensational conclu
sions.
The makers of newspapers understand something about the
difficulties of getting exact facts. This report means that many
men have worked hard and long at disagreeable tasks. It means
that they have been brave enough to face the most dangerous ele
ment of municipal life, and that they have been clear headed
enough to find out what was going on rather than to make guesses
that would have proved utterly useless if put to the test.
Young Mr. Rockefeller has freely given his money—of which
he has abundance—and his time—of which he has far less than the
average man—to the making of this report. It is to his everlast
ing credit that it is so complete and that its results are so available
for every organization whose business it is to help in stamping out
a cruel, sordid and nefarious traffic.
It is a hopeful indication of the future of this country that the
Rockefeller fortune will some day fall into the hands of a young
man whose earnestness, sincerity and desire for the welfare of the
community in which he lives is so well proven by this great work
which his initiative set on foot and which his energy, plus his great
means, has so well accomplished.
TRUE CHARITY
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
c i yr'ght, 1JHI. by American-Journal-Examiner
1 GAVE « beggar from my little store
Of 'veil earned gold. He spent the shining me
And came again, and yet again, still cold
And hungry, as before.
! gave a thought, and through that thought of mini
He found himself the man. supreme, divine!
bed. clothed, and crowned with hlpssings manifold
And now he begs no more.
M RS. ARTHUR DODGE, the
loader of the anti-suffra
gists and our greatest un
conscious humorist, is out with a
brand new explanation of why
women want to vote. She says
that the suffrage question is noth
ing on earth but a sex disturb
ance, and that in trying to get the
ballot women are only making a
sex appeal to men.
That’s a pretty hard charge for
a woman, even an anti-suffragist,
to make against her sister woman.
It Is only explainable on the
ground that each anti-sutTraglst
thinks she is the only woman in
the world who has sufficient in
telligence and virtue to fit her
to vote. I have never met an
anti-suffragist who esteemed her
self so ignorant and vicious and
hysterical and venial that she felt
a ballot would be unsafe in her
hands. It's all the other women
that she holds so cheaply.
However. Mrs. Dodge’s claim
that the suffrage appeal Is noth
ing but a sex appeal to man is. at
least, welcome, because It is new.
What anti-suffragists have here
tofore claimed was that the suf
frage movement was a sex war.
One contention is just as silly
and unworthy of the serious con
sideration of sensible people as
the other.
On the very face of It, it is
idiotic that there could be any
great popular movement that had
for its object the fostering of an
tagonism between the sexes Any
such idea would fall at its very
birth.
Sex Cry Most Insistent.
Nature would slay It in Its very
beginning, for as long as men are
men and women are women, the
cry of sex to sex will be the
loudest and most insistent call In
the world.
Theories and creeds, beliefs and
principles, religion and politics
have never yet stood long between
a man and a maid, and the only
possible war betv een the sexes
results in the call to arms that
both answer, and which is arbi
trated by the priest before the
altar.
Anybody who seriously argues
that men and women can ever be
arrayed against each other, as
classes, needs the attention of an
alienist Aside from the affection
between them, the man's interes’
and the woman’** interest are
identical They stand or fall to
gether. Whatever makes for the
prosper!t> of one makes for the
t "od of the other. What drags
one down into the pit carries the
other into the abyss.
We are the wives, and sisters,
and daughters of the men who
want low tariff or high tariff; our
husbands, and our brothers, and
our fathers are manufacturers, or
farmers, or merchants; our for
tunes will be affected juat as
much as men's by currency laws.
We are bound to men by every
men are guilty of using their sex
in furtherance of their aims it is
the anti-suffragists, not the suf
fragists.
The chief weapon in the armory
of the anti-suffragist is what she
calls feminine charm, or feminine
influence, and she is forever urg
ing women to use this instead of
doing a coarse and brutal thing
like casting a ballot.
What the Antis Say.
The antis say that women do
not need to vote because they can
persuade men to vote the way
they want them to. They con
tend that it is easier to jolly a
man into doing what you want
him to do than it is to do it your
self, and less labor to work him
than to do the work with your
own hands. When you want to
get a bill passed for some meas
ure you are interested in, or an
appropriation for your favorite
charity, they advise you to put on
your prettiest frock and your
most bewitching hat and go up
to the Legislature and make eyes
at the men. They say that you
can flatter a man, particularly if
you are good looking, into voting
for anything, and. such being the
case, why bother with the ballot?
Now. when a woman talks about
using her "sweet womanly influ
ence” she knows perfectly well
that what she really means is that
she is going to strike the chord of
pbx with a hand that practice has
made unerring in its touch. She’s
going to use every coquetry, and
blandishment, and cajolery, and
wile that have come down from
the days of Eve and Delilah to,
the present moment, and because
she may be doing it for a good
cause doesn’t alter its character
one whit.
One of the main arguments to
be advanced In favor of giving
women the franchise is that it
will enable them to do decently,
and clean-mindedly, the very
things that they do Immorally
now. When a woman doesn’t
have to ask favors of a man she
doesn’t have to do the Salome
dance before him.
Women With Incomes.
The woman w’ho has her own
independent income doesn’t have
to wheedle a new’ hat out of her
husband by tainted kisses and
caresses. The woman who can
cast her own ballot for whatever
measures she wants doesn’t have
to debase herself by flirting with
some politician to get him to vote
her way.
The ballot is the clean, honest
high road to a desired re
sult. Using your w’omanly Influ
ence is the devious and slimy
path that leads In the same direc
tion. but that no woman treads
without bedraggling her skirts.
DOROTHY DIX
tie of blood, and heart, and pock
et. and the idea of our fighting
them is as absurd as to suppose
we will all go adrift and cut
our own throats. There can never
be. even when we get the fran
chise, any all-women political
party as opposed to an all-men
political party. There can be no
female tariff schedule, no female
regulation of the trust, no female
banking bill differing from men's.
The idea of a sex war between
men and women is so ridiculous
that it is no wonder that even the
Anti-Suffragist Donna Quixotes
got tired of fighting that wind
mill. But Mrs. Dodge s brand-new-
theory that the suffrage move
ment is an insidious sex appeal to
men is equally fantastic and im
aginary.
(>n the contrary, so far from
this bein^ the iriQfti. if any wo
TROUT FISHING
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
W HEN good old Izaak Walton used to angle after trout
He always journeyed homeward with a dozen fish, about.
All of these flsh w ere beauties, very lone and broad of'back,
For when he caught a one-pound flsh he always threw’ it back.
The birds were always singing aid the sky was always blue;
The brooklet rippled dreamily, the buds were wet with dew,
The music of the whirring line mixed with the slim rod's swish
When good old Izaak Walton used to hypnotize the flsh.
When 1 go out to catch a trout—and that is very rarelv—
1 always reason with the fish and try to treat them fairly.
1 always use the choicest worms to give the trout a treat.
But trout all drink so nowadays they do not care to eat.
I lose my hooks on hidden snags, my reel gets out of whack.
Mosquitoes sting my features and the gnats swarm down my back.
1 scratch my fins and bark my shins, my neck I nearly break;
I guess my name is Izaak, w’lth the accent on the "aak."
At twelve o'clock I want to eat and And to my dismay
That 1 forgot my luncheon when I started for the day.
The water isn’t good to drink; a cold rain soaks my thatch;
And when I try to take a smoKe I can no: find a match.
In sheer disgust 1 give it up. vow ng that I'm a frost.
^nd when the shades of night steal on ! find that I am lost.
1 totter home at midnight like some poor old broken tout
And 1 dream how Izaak Walton used to angl after trout.
Be a Fresh Air Fiend
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM.
up 1
RESH AIR AND HOW
TO USE IT.” by Thomas
Spees Carrington, M. D.,
is a book sent out by the Na
tional Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
If every one w’ould put into prac
tice its teachings, how the life
and force of the nation w^ould be
augmented. See if you come un
der Professor Carrington’s ar
raignment:
“Under present housing condi
tions the air finds its way into
and from dwellings through open
windows, doors, transoms, regis
ters, fireplaces, chimney flues and
various ventilating devices, also
by leakage around windows and
doors, and by passing through the
building itself. After entering
through these openings the fresh
air is mixed with the inclosed at
mosphere through the movement
of the air due to the wind pres
sure on the outside of the build
ings, the tendency of heated air
to rise and of all gases to Inter
mingle or diffuse.
In the Bed Room.
"In admitting fresh air into a
room through an opening below
the window sash some kind of
wind shield or air deflector is
often necessary to protect those
sitting near the window from
exposure to direct draft.
"Fresh air is as essential in
the bed room at night as during
the day. and every one should
sleep with windows wide open
during all seasons of tho year.
A small aperture at the top and
bottom of the window does not
give a sufficient supply of pure air
to the sleeper. Too much empha
sis can not be placed on this
phase of the fresh air problem;
for the habit of closing up sleep
ing rooms at night is prevalent
throughout the entire country.
An Old Prejudice.
“In all countries where the win
ters are severe man's ideal shel
ter has been one that would in
sure the best protection from the
cold, but unfortunately this pro
tection has been gained by the ex
clusion of fresh air. Even to-day,
with all our moderp inventions,
we can not produce proper ven
tilation without losing a large
percentage of heat; so the poor,
in the attempt to prevent the
waste of fuel, make their living
rooms as near airtight as they
can.
"In the North fresh air is shut
out in order to obtain a com
fortable temperature. In the
South it is shut out to prevent
malarial fever. Millions of peo
ple in malarial countries still be
lieve that night air is the car
rier of deadly disease, and they
use every means to keep it out of
their homes by closing windows
and doors as soon as the sun dis
appears in the w’est. This idea
holds in all parts of the wmrld.
It is not unusual to find whole
communities closing their houses
carefully as soon as tho gun goes
down and not opening them again
until morning.
“This prejudice against night
air should be banished from the
mind, for, since the discovery that
the mosquito is the carrier of
tropical fever and not the night
air, it may be stated with author
ity that the man may breathe
fresh night air with impunity if
he protects himself from insects.
Outdoor air is much purer In a
given location at night than It is
during the day. The atmosphere
is cleansed by the precipitation
of dew and frost, for moisture as
it drops to the earth carries with
it from the air the particles of
dust and smoke u r hich pollute It.
A Recognized Remedy.
“When there Is no wind the
atmosphere is also cleared by
gravity, the particles of dust set
tling plowly to the earth. Fresh,
cold night air stimulates and
tones the body and induces
strength and a fresh mental out
look upon life.
“The interiors of the majority
of homes in northern countries
are breeding places for disease,
because of the difficulties in the
w*ay of, and the objection to, ad
mitting fresh air. Foul air, which
is full of poisonous gases exhaled
from the lungs of the Inmates, is
the usual atmosphere of the home,
and it can not be otherwise w hen
our houses are built to be closed
as tightly as possible.
"To-day fresh air is a recog-
• nized remedy for pneumonia am*
tuberculosis, and it is also kno\fb
to be a preventive of diseases
generally. It is essential to good
health, and for this reason it is
necessary to make arrangements
for obtaining it in every inclosed
space used as a shelter by human
beings. Buildings should be ven
tilated so that it will be impos
sible for those who use them to
re-breathe the air which has been
expelled from their lungs'.”