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Patrick Henry’s Speech-arid
Roping a Mule
The Difference Between the Patriotism That Founded This Country
and the Modem Mexican Brand.
OoprrtgM. lfit, he Star rvmpinr
You remembor how P&triok Henry wanted liberty or death—
and, with the help of his friends, got liberty.
Yon remember the long, weary, patient fight of Washington,
the noble sentiments of those ancient gentlemen who established
the United States, and yon say: "They DESERVE the freedom
they got.'’
Yon may be inclined to suppose that it is cruel to refuse ab
solute freedom to the Filipinos or cruel not to sympathise with
the Mexicans, who demand permission to murder each other in
definitely. Your idea may be that Filipinos and Mexicans TO '
DAY axe just like our ancestors of the battlefield and the counoi]
chamber—back in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
To judge conditions intelligently is to know that the differ-'
ence between the patriotism that established the United States
and the kind of patriotism that is shooting itself to pieces in Mexico
is as great as the difference between the Declaration of Indepen
dence and the act of roping a Mexican mule on the run.
One grand Mexican "hero and patriot" is Emeliano Zapata.
What was Emeliano Zapata originally?
Was he an earnest thinker and student like Thomas Jefferson,
a lofty, earnest aristocrat like Hamilton, a burning patriot like
Patrick Henry, or a lofty character like Washington? Hardly.
Zapata, Mexican patriot and thirster for liberty and glory,
was a fancier of chicken fights a well-known sport. He did not
get his start by starting any Declaration of Independence. He
got it by "roping a mule.”
This patriot was fond of roping contests—he and others see
ing whioh could most successfully throw a lasso around an ox
and bring it down. Onoe he was disappointed because he failed
to get first prize. As he stood nursing in his heart the wrongs
of Mexico ar 1 his own especial wrongs in having lost first prise,
a mule belonging to a Spaniard came galloping along.
Zapata, patriot, roped the mule most beautifully, and he was
applauded. But he broke the mule’s leg.
The Spaniard had him arrested He was convicted and was
sentenced to serve in the army—they recruit their patriotic troops
down there by compelling convicts to become soldiers.
Zapata went to the army waving both arms and vowing
vengeance.
He kept his vow.
When he came back he killed the Spaniard who owned the
mule with the broken let-
That made him a hero.
Soon he had the poor, ^miserable, half breed peons surround
ing him and cheering him. They said, "The man who breaks the
mule’s leg and then kills the Spaniard who complains Is the man
for US. He knows how to get revenge ”
The Mexicans do not think about liberty; they think about
revenge.
The Pied Piper
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
There is a legend of a ‘‘Piper Pied,”
Who charmed the rats with music of his reed.
Shrilling his way down to the river side
He led them to their death. The Town in Greed
Withheld the promised price; the Piper then
Walked, blithely playing, past the homes of men.
The listening children followed on his trail
And none came back. So ends the olden tale.
Still lives the Piper; piping tho’ the land,
He calls the children as he called of yore.
The greedy world, indifferent, sees the band
Follow him blindly, to return no more.
Shilling his tune, as blithely as of old,
Hard by the homes of men, unchecked and hold,
He pipes his music while the children dance
And disappear. His name is IGNORANCE.
What Travelers See on the Canal Voyage
Mexican and Filipino patriots, be it said with all sympathy,
belong veiy largely to the Zapata brand of hero. And there is
as much difference between the early United States demand for
independence and the demand in Mexico or in the Philippines
to-day as there is between such a man as Jefferson writing his
Declaration of Independence and Emeliano Zapata roping the
mule that belonged to the Spaniard.
IT.
J IMAGINATION plays with real-
ity out here on Gatun Lake.
One finds it difficult to real
ize that up here, where the Con
tinental Divide loombs straight
ahead and the mountains are tak-
It is well to be sympathetic, and every man is entitled to
justice.
The important thing is to be JUST and, as an intelligent ob
server in Mexico has said, not to take advantage of Mexicans or
Filipinos merely because we are stronger than they, and at the>
same time not to assume that they are capable of self-govenment’
merely because they say they want it.
Justice demands that the various peoples be made free and
self-governing as soon as THEY ARE CAPABLE OF UNDER
TAKING THE TASK of self government. Common sense demands
that they be managed, directed, helped and governed by those
who understand government while they are in the process of grow
ing up.
And the simple fact is that in Mexico, and still more in the
Philippine Islands, where our representatives talk foolish non
sense about ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE, freedom from super
vision and control must simply mean wholesale murder and
anarchy.
STARS AND STRIPES
A lady from Minneapolis chides
members of her sex for their In
ability to grasp (treat enterprises.
The trouble with women," she
- ,<yh. "is that they only think in
ine or two figures." As the mer-
r\ Christmastime approaches a
glance at almost any married
man s heck book would dispel
this hallucination.
* * *
Chicago women solve the high
problem by eating meat.
Pretty oioon they’ll have to eolve 1
the high meat problem by eating
eggs The good old ham and eggs
days are over.
• • •
Woman in letter to husband
says she left him for a man who
would treai her with more bru
tality. Sno use; you simply
can’t dope them out.
• * *
North Dakota has barred the
sale of snuff. Odd how a man
who chews tobacco looks down
on one who merely sniffs it.
v
Ing on dizzy heights, It ts alto
gether real for a great ship of
commerce to be floating along,
penetrating the heart of the trop
ics on an inland sea of artificial
construction. More suggestive is
It of a mountain lake, tucked
somewhere up in the Adirondack*,
and the tourist feels that his ap
propriate conveyance would be a
bark canoe. The feeling is given
further point by the appearance
of a native dug-out fourteen feet
long and scarcely a foot wide,
fashioned from the trunk of a
Panamanian mahogany tree,
which comes gliding down the
canal, propelled by a dusky San
Bias Indian, with his squaw and
a dozen children behind him in
the crude craft.
Town Under Water.
Oft’ there in the heart of the
jungle, too. is another incongru
ous sight. Lighthouses! Trim
towers of glistening white con
crete tucked away landward as
range lights to guide the canal
mariners at night. The strange
ness of these lighthouses in the
Jungle has traveled to far Nor
way. A Norwegian engineer came
to the canal on a visit of inspec
tion recently, and the first thing
he asked for was a picture of
the lighthouses in the jungle
which llis Majesty of Norway
had ordered him to secure.
On for twenty miles the ship
By WILLIAM HOSIER
steams without sign of human
habitation — wilderness every
where—jungle and forest, with
the purple mountains rising in
the background. Yet there is one
sign suggesting human habita
tion. Steaming south, we came
recently across the sight of the
formerly bustling town of Gorgo-
na. It is under twenty feet of
water now. But rising a foot
above the surface of the lake Is
the top of the baseball pavilion,
once the pride of the canal dig
gers at Gorgona, who had a base
ball team whose fame extended
all over the Zone. There stands
the pavilion now’, only the top
most seats showing.
"The game has been postponed
on account of wet grounds," said
Colonel Goethals a3 our tug sped
along.
The scene begins to change
somewhat now. The Jungle is
being left behind. The country
grows more rugged. Instead of
tropical foliage on either side of
the lake, which is beginning to
narrow, the scarred edges of dirt
bank and cliff are beginning to
appear. We glide forward to a
narrow neck of land, pass over
the site of what was once Gam
boa Dike, blown up on October
10 so that the flood waters could
enter Culebra Cut, and presently
we are entering the Cut itself.
Here begins that portion of the
canal which has been cut through
solid rock—theater of all the
heart breaking slides, battle
ground of the fiercest fighting of
the seven years' war on the Isth
mus. It is peaceful enough now.
Where thunderous volleys of dy
namite daily rocked the Zone with
their constant blasting, where the
rat-tat of the hydraulic drill
created a machine-shop din and
the rattle and straining of the
steam shovel awakened the echoes
forty-five feet of water has closed
In, burying from sight forever the
scene of the struggle.
Into a Canyon.
One who was here where the
fight was waging, and saw the
tremendous odds against which
Goethals' army struggled, can
realize that It was with a pang
of regret, and in some instances
with downright tears, that these
bronzed soldiers of progress saw
the waters close in over their
completed handiwork. The real
Culebra Cut is now but a mem
ory.
The rise of the walls is gradual
as a ship enters the Cut. One has
the sensation of entering a river
which ages ago cut its way
through the hills. But slowly, as
the ship moves forward between
the walls of solid granite, the
height of the cliffs Increases; they
rise sheer out of the water, thefr
rough-hewn sides exposed, show
ing where drill and dynamite cut
and hewed them away to make a
path for commerce. Moss is filling
up the interstices. The cliffs be
gin to look as if they had stood
as they are now from the begin
ning of time.
As the ship moves forward it
passes into a canyon. Straight
up on either side the walls of the
cliff rise here to a height of sev
eral hundred feet in a 300-foot
channel. The effect is impres
sive and sublime. it smacks
strongly of the sensation one has
sailing along the Colorado Grand
Canyon, in Arizona. Let those
who have been carried along in
a canoe in that cathedral-like
canyon picture to themselves the
same trip in a 10,000-ton merchant
ship, and they will have a real
istic idea of the ride through Cu
lebra Cut. And, if they can do it,
let them picture to themselves
meeting at a bend of the Can
yon of the Colorado a monstrous
man-of-war steaming along un
der its own headway. For within
a few months here, eighty-five
feet above the sea, piercing the
very heart of the Continental Di
vide, the ships of war of the com
bined navies of the world will
steam majestically through the
Grand Canyon of Panama, other
wise Culebra Cut, as safely and
as securely as though they were
out on the broad bosom of the
Atlantic, landlocked though they
will be, and gracefully proceeding
Paciflcward over a spot which but
a year ago was dry land.
High above on the cliffs one can
make out the picturesque tropical
quarters of the canal diggers at
Culebra, at Empire, at Paraiso,
where the tall flagpole marks the
site of Camp Otis, home of the
Tenth Infantry.
In-Shoots
To be able to utilize the talents
of the other fellow is one of the
stepping stones to success.
* * •
The auto-tango has many de
votees—in the hospitals.
« * *
There is nothing more amusing
than a big, husky woman flutter
ing about trying to please a
grouchy little husband,
I
How Georgia Has Led in
Corn Club Work.
By CHARLES ANDERSON.
G eorgia i» first in having
organized corn clubs, first
in the number of boys ob
taining high yields, first in the
highest number of bushels ob
tained from one acre in 1913, first
in the organization of annual
State com show for boys, first
In the efficiency of an organized
force for promoting the club
work.
The first corn clubs ever or
ganized anywhere were formed
by Professor Adams in Newton
County in 1905.
Georgia enrolled this year 10,-
000 boys in com clubs, the largest
number for any State.
The highest yield reported from
any boy’s one acre in the country
is that of young Wellborn, or
Morgan County, 181 bushels.
More Georgia boys came
through the year with big yields
than the boys of any other State,
as records will fully verify.
Largely because of the enter
prise of Atlanta business men,
Georgia has the distinction of
having the first State com show
for boys.
It is conceded by authorities
that Georgia has the most effi
cient organization of State and
Federal forces for corn club work
in existence.
The pre-eminence of Georgia in
corn club work is attributed to
the able direction of those in
charge, to the generous support
of various agencies in Georgia
and to the aid and co-operation
of the farm demonstration work
of the United States Department
of Agriculture.
In most States where the com
club work has been carried on
the primary force behind it was
the United States Department of
Agriculture, but in Georgia corn
clubs had been in existence about
five years before Federal aid was
extended. Professor Adams, who
sized 101 boys into com clubs
in Newton County, had an exhibit
at the fair at Covington during
1905. Business men had offered
prizes for which many of the boys
contested.
Another important item of com
club history in favor of Georgia
Is that Professor J. S. Stewart,
superintendent in charge of sec
ondary education in Georgia,
worked out a plan for interest
ing school boys in agriculture
through com and cotton clubs,
and enlisted several county school
commissioners and teachers. One
of the first official acts of Chan
cellor David Barrow, head of the
university system of the State,
was to authorize the publication
of a bulletin setting forth plans
for organizing such clubs and
giving directions as to how to
select seed and prepare the land.
The first awards for boys’ clubs
in the States was $500 obtained
by Professor Stewart from the
State Fair Association in 1906.
The money went to boys having
the ten best ears of com and the
five best Btalks of cotton at the
State Fair, which that year was
held In Atlanta. Boys of twenty
counties entered the contest.
With the coming of Dr. Andrew
M. Soule to the presidency of the
State College of Agriculture In
1907 the corn club movement
centered in that institution and
since then has had its headquar
ters at and direction from that
place.
With his characteristic power
to organize and promote, Presi
dent Soule began the rapid de
velopment of the com clubs He
raised money, issued a bulletin,
sent out organizers stirred up
public sentiment, till Georgia
came into national prominence
for Its com club organization.
The late Seaman A. Knapp,
whose name is inseparably linked
with the organization of corn
clubs over the country and will
always be enshrined as the great
national figure in the promotion
of boys' and girls' club work,
found in Georgia a strong organi
zation well on the way, and from
which he doubtless obtained
many good ideas for use in other
States. Willing aid came from
Mr. Knapp for furthering the
Georgia movement and through
his son, Hon. Bradford Knapp,
the Federal part of the corn club
has been prosecuted in complete
harmony with the State College
of Agriculture and greatly for the
good of the cause.
In Georgia the girls' canning
club work, the farm demonstra
tion work, the boys’ com clubs,
the boys’ pig clubs are all closely
co-ordinated and mutually help
ful. This makes for the efficiency
of each at the least possible cost.
For Instance, the farm demon
stration agents and the district
demonstration agents assist in or
ganizing and promoting the boys’
com clubs, the boys' pig clubs
and the girls’ canning clubs. All
these clubs centeT Into one su
pervising head, Professor J. Phil
Campbell at the State College of
Agriculture, who in turn reports
to President Soule for the State
and Mr. Knapp for the Federal
Government. For this efficiency
of organization credit is due Pres
ident Soule.
Although the aid from the Fed
eral Government has been very
material to the success of the
com ciubs of Georgia, it is un
questionably true that but for
the liberality and co-operation of
boards of trade, bankers, school
authorities and other well wish
ers, the movement would have
been far from what it is to-day.
The enlisting of this State sup
port and co-operation has fallen
largely upon the head of the Col
lege of Agriculture. The amount
which has been obtained from
State sources for the support of
the corn club movement speaks
for his success.
Battle of the Nations §§
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
The "Battle of the Nations,” as
the great contest at Leipzig is
often called, took place Just 100
years ago, October 18, 1813.
It Is well called the Battle of
the Nations, for in it was repre
sented . nearly every European
country, and the issues there de
cided told, directly or Indirectly,
upon the whole Continent, yes,
upon the whole world.
Even as a battle, Leipzig was a
stupendous affair, outranking
nearly every' other battle of mod
ern tfmes. Napoleon had 160,-
000 men, who -were opposed by
the allied forces of Austria, Rus
sia and Prussia, 240,000 strong.
As It turned out, Leipzig was a
crushing defeat for the Man of
Destiny. He lost 40,000 in killed,
wounded and prisoners, 65 pieces
of artillery and many standards;
and, worst of all, he had to give
up Leipzig, which, from the strat -
egle standpoint, meant so much
to him.
The* results of the battle were
far-reaching and decisive. It
meant the beginning of the end
of Napoleon’s rule in Europe. The
first abdication really dates from
the fatal day of Leipzig. Leipzig
meant Elba. From the blow that
day received Napoleon never re
covered.
And Leipzig meant a free Ger
many.
PUTTY: Saved by a Mere Pup
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Ocnrrright. 1818, International News Serrtre.