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Patrick Henry’s Speech=~=and
Roping a Mule
111' Diflrrrncf Behwren Hie P»triotr*m Hiat Founded Fhis Country
«nd thr Modem Mexican Brand.
Oernrlfht. 1918. hr Star Company.
You remember how Patrick Henry wanted liberty or death—
r;nd, with the help of his friends, got liberty,
You remember the long, weary, patient fight of Washington, J
the noble sentiments of those ancient gentlemen who established
the United States, and you say: "They DESERVE the freedom
they got.”
You 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 are just like our ancestors of the battlefield and the council
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- i
deuce 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 which could most successfully throw a lasso around an ox
and bring it down Once he was disappointed because he failed
to get first prize. As he stood nursing in his heart the wrongs
of Mexico an 1 his ovw especial wrongs in having lost first prize,
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
entenced to serve in the army—they recruit their patriotic troops
clown there by compelling convicts to become soldiers.
Zapata went to the army waving both arms and vowinf
\ ehgeance.
He kept his vow.
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When he came back he drilled the Spaniard who owned the
mule with the broken leg.
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.
Mexican and Filipino patriots, be it said with all sympathy,
belong very 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 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 thei
same time not to assume that they are capable of self-government
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, direoted, 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 It rasp treat enterprises.
The trouble with women" she
says, "is that they only think in
one or two figures." As the mer
ry Christmastime approaches a
glance at almost any married
man's check book would dispel
this hallucination.
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Chicago women solve tlie high
«*rk problem by eating meat.
Pretty soon they’ll have to solve
the high meat problem by eating
eggs The good old ham and eggs
days are over.
* • •
Woman in letter to husband
sain s she left him for a man who
would treat her with more bru
tality. Sno use; you simply
can’t dope them out.
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North Dakota has barred the
sa'e of snuff. Odd how a man
who chews tobacco looks down
o*' one who merely sniffs it.
The Pied Piper
A 1
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Them is a legend of a “Piper Pied,”
Who charmed the rata with music of his reed.
Shrilling his way down to the river side
lie 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 bold,
He pipes his music while the children dance
And disappear. His name is IGNORANCE.
What Travelers See on the Canal Voyage
By WILLIAM HOSIER
n.
I MAGINATION plays with real
ity out here on Oatun I-Ake.
On© finds It difficult to real
ize that up here, where the Con
tinental Divide loombs straight
ahead and the mountains are tak
ing on dizzy heights, it Is alto
gether real for a great ship of
commerce to be floating along,
penetrating the heart of the trop
ics on an inland /?ea of artificial
construction. More suggestive is
It of a mountain lake, tucked
pomewhere up In the Adirondacks,
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,
whio&i 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.
Off 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 His Majesty of Norway
had ordered him to secure.
Us lor twenty miles the ship
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 as our tug sped
along.
The scene begins to change
somewhat now. The jungle is
being left behind. The country
grow8 more rugged. Instead of
tropical foliage on either side of
tfte lake, which is beginning to
narrow*, the scarred edges of dirt
bank and cliff are beginning to
appear. We £:llde 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 racked the Zone w ith
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 aw r akened the echoes
forty-five feet of water has closed
in, burying from sight forever the
scene of the struggle. '
Into a Canyon.
On© 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
w'lth downright tears, that these
bronzed soldiers of progress saw’
the waters close in over their
completed handlw’ork. 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
w’hich 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, their
rough-hewn sides exposed, show-
ing w’here drill and dynamite cut
and hew’ed 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 forw’ard 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-llke
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
w’ill be, and gracefully proceeding
Paclficward 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.
ln=Shoots .:
How Georgia Has Led in
Corn Club Work.
By CHARLES ANDERSON.
G EORGIA is 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 corn show for boys, first
in the efficiency of an organized
force for promoting the club
work.
The first corn clubs ever or
ganized anyw'here w’ere formed
by Professor Adams in Newton
County In 1905.
Georgia enrolled this year 10,-
000 boys in corn 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 com club work
in existence.
The pre-eminencr of Georgia in
com cluV 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 w’ork
of the United States Department
of Agriculture.
In most States where the corn
club work has been carried on
the primary force behind it was
the United States Department of
Agriculture, hut in Georgia com
clubs had been in existence about
five years before Federal aid was
extended. Professor Adams, who
nized 101 boy* 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 th«
five best stalks of cotton at th*
State Fair, which that year Wl ,
held in Atlanta. Boys of twenty
counties entered the contest.
With the comtnir of Dr. Andrew
M. Soule to the presidency of the
State College of Agriculture | n
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, Pres!,
dent Soule began the rapid de
velopment of the corn clubs Hi
raised money, issued a bulletin,
sent out organizers etirred up
public sentiment, till Georgia
came into national prominence
for its corn 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 organ!-
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' Canute*
club work, the farm demonstra
tion work, the hoys’ corn dubs,
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’
corn clubs, the boys' pig dubs
and the girls’ canning clubs. All
these clubs center 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
corn clubs of Georgia, It Is un
questionably true that hut fur
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 com club movement speaks
for hla success.
To be able to utilize the talents
of the other fellow Is one of the
stepping stones to success.
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The auto-tango has many de
votees—in the hospitals.
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There* is nothin* more amusing
than a big. husky woman flutter
ing; about trying to please a
grouchy little husband.
Battle of the Nations H
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 times. 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, 06 pieces
of artillery and many standards,
and, worst of all, he had to give
up Leipzig, which, from the strat
egic 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. Leipzl?
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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