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ENGLAND’S NEW TASK.
Great Britain is lacing insurrections in Ireland, Egypt
and India. In those possessions foreign races are governed
by Englishmen. The only way to still the revolts is to grant
autonomous rule to the dependencies. Everybody agrees
about that. But, few agree about the method.
In Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Britons govern
themselves. The mother country has given freedom to her
sons. They can do whatever they like while there is a
British navy to protect them. They are threatened by no
racial complications. They have received the gift of lib
erty as from Englishman to Englishman,
After Great Britain conquered the South African Boers,
a new race came into the empire. But, the Boers had
always been independent and were well practiced in the
ways of freedom. Their two states, therefore, naturally
united with Ihc British South African colonies to found a
self-governing commonwealth. Ihe experiment has been
felicitous. The loyalty of General Botha and General
Smuts, Boer leaders, to the British Empire during the World
War. proved the success of British colonizing methods in
South Africa.
But. South African conditions do not prevail in Ire-land,
Egypt or India. Proximity to England complicates the
Irish situation; lack of education is a danger to Egyptian
self-government; jealousies among religious sects and strong
caste feeling among the natives necessitate a cautious pro
cedure in India.
Nevertheless, those countries cannot be governed from
London. Great Britain is well aware of that fact. The
days of paternal government are passing. A new wav of
administration must bo found to keep the alien races con
tented. Great Britain is now experimenting in an < ffort to
find the way. Self-government for Ireland and India have
been promised, and a commission is studying the Egyptian
problem.
Whether the first steps to he taken will prove success
ful remains to be seen. Chronic discontent has always de
stroyed the empire that could not cure it. But, Groat
Britain converted General Botha and General Smuts*from
enemies to saviors of the empire. The racial problems in
Ireland, Egypt and India, therefore, are not basically in
soluble.
HOW IT WORKS OUT.
Onp of tho most firmly planted ideas of the Russian
Bolsheviki is that “until every person has one room, no per
son shall have two." Therefore the soviet has divided up
homes, and has compelled home owners to share their dwell
ing places with others. This, of course, opened mansions
and castles even in Russia. So far, so good; no one is heard
to complain (except the millionaire.) But there are com
paratively few mansions and castles even in Russia. The
great majority of dwelling places are the homes of the poor
and the so-called middle class.
The husband and wife have scrimped and saved to put
a roof of their own over their heads and the heads of the
children. They have worked hard and denied themselves
much to fix up that home. Maybe they have a spare room,
a living room, dining room, and kitchen. Along comes the
soviet and sends a stranger into the' living room to sleep and
live there. Another into the dining morn. Another makes
his home in the spare room. They all share the kitchen.
How does that work out? Listen to Arthur Ransome, a
professed friend of the Russian program, who in “Russia
in 1919” says:
“This plan has. of course, proved very hard on house
owners, and in some cases the new tenants have made a
horrible mess of the houses.”
He adds—
“ Six months ago there wore comparatively clean rooms
here, but the sailors have demoralized the hotel and it? filth
is indescribable.”
Why should anyone who hasn't toiled, and saved, and
sacrificed for a home all his own. exert himself to keep clean
a room in another's home, when he knows that the soviet
will confiscate another room for him when he desires it?
Kansome’s picture of Russia as she exists today is
merely confirmation of the time-tested theory that you can’t
make over a man in n day. nor a group of men, nor a shop,
nor a nation. Lc nine and Trotsky are finding it easier to
divide homes among the peasants than to make them keep
the rooms clean and livable after getting them. And, too,
they find it less difficult to take an industrial plant from its
owners than to get that same plant, nationalized, to come up
to its production possibilities.
Some time every Russian will have a home, and some
time Russian capital mnv not exploit labor, and some time
Russia will be Utopia. But not in a day. nor even a decade.
Human progress, being human, moves too slowly.
AS WOMEN SEE IT.
The French are premiers in thrift. American soldiers
brought back a world of information on that subject to their
women folks. Our women have adopted the French idea in
some ways. In others they are doing their own pioneering.
And to good effect.
Greater and greater grows the number who do their
preliminary shopping through the newspaper advertising
columns. They stroll through the stores and shops page by
page. They pick out a bargain here, and another one
there. Then, and not until then, do they actually use the
telephone. Or better still, visit the stores in person.
They are all set. The know what they are doing and
they are on their way. Delays in the way of car service
lack or crowds only serve to make the thrifty American
woman insistent on reaching her objective. Living costs
are such and the value of money also such that the thrifty
woman nowadays does not hesitate to walk an additional
block or so to sa\e on almost any item she wishes to pur
chase. The newspaper advertising pages is her business
barometer. She remains home when it shows high. She
trots right out to the bargain counters when it low.
The American woman has learned the thrift game.
WHAT THE LEGION DID.
When the committee of 48 first met in their St. l,ouis
conference it wan reported that “member* of the American
Legion asked Department of Justice ofifcials to interfere
also it was reported that the legion “would prevent the hold
ing of the conference on the ground that the delegates were
Bolshevists, etc."
All of which was true so far: Five or six former sol
diers. wearing buttons of the American Legion, did attempt
to interefere with the conference plans. But the legion
itself refused to have anything to do with these self-appoint
ed political censors. Thirty St. Louis costs of the Ameri
can Legion, officially and promptly, squelched the initial ef
forts of the irresponsible objectors in those words:
“The American Legion stands emphatically for 100
per cent Americanism. ‘Americanism.' as we understand
it. includes the right of free speech, which right is not to
be denied to any man or group of men who seek to accom
plish changes in our government or its statute* by lawful
naans.”
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
litis Is the Man Who Wrote the
Railroad Anti-Strike Clause
Albert Baird Otmmjnr, author of the
Cummin* raihoad bill, which include* the
anti-* trike f-laupf-. was a railroader- befori
! lie bft'/ame a lawyer. When ho left col -
| leg* he headed straight for a railroad job,
l m.d i» wa< not until he had been made a«-
i mutant ' hies engineer of the old Cincin
nati, Richmond and For Wayne Railroad
‘ that he turned toward law.
t Sana tor Cummins nays It wamn’t the
‘rtf-.<ll ri ..fid long hours the railroad
job brought which mode legal pastures
! more Inviting. But. the fact stands that
he hadn't been ral'roadlna lung: before he
eu jed stakes and courted Biackuton* In a
j Chi' .it'o law office. At 25 he warn admitted
to the her. practicing In Chicago three
i yeark Tie n h«- transferred hi* activities
j to Do; Moines, town, and ten yearn later
warn in the lowa legislature Twice he
) was defeated for the t’nlU-d State* s*-n
--i ate In 1902 ho warn elected governor of
lowa, and re-elected twice.
From the governor’-’ ehalr he moved on
j to Washington, succeeding the late Sena
i tor Alllmon, in 1908. His present term ex-
I pirn* In 1921.
j While* governor Cummins attained con- \
slderah’o reputation u* a fighter of cor- \
} poratlons, eapeclaHy did he battle against j
| railroads on helmlf of passengers and j
I shipper*. Few governors were more di»-
| liked in Wall Street wailway off bey.
; in the old Roosevelt days Cummins wn?
[ft near-P:ogresaive. lie denounced th*' 1
Chicago convention which renomina!*»d
l Taft, and «ald he wouldn’t mipport the i
nominee kbit he didn't leave trie party.'
lie has away* b- m what Washington!
;mi Us ;< •'party man. '
In the senate Cummins climbed onto •
tie powerful Interstate Commerce Com-, 1
mho , and gradually moved to tin- top,
hiring chairman this congress, and i
surh his name attaches Itself to the rail- 1
road hii] framed in committee.
Cummins bar declared himself unre
m< rvedly for the anti-strike c ause of the
bill Also he has made It dear that he
favors th< bill’s proposal to guarantee (J
per * ej, profits to railroads in the future,
wiiK * he suggests may he done by in-j
r,lU ' B passenger and freight I
There was a time when Cummins was
Community Forms to Reduce
Living Cost by Producing
More Food for More People
by prof, elwood mead.
Chairman California State Settlement
Board and Special Advisor to the De
partment of the Interior.
(TCditor'f* Note* -rOomMunity f;»rm
lutf oils of tjio much-tiler uns<hl
yumtionH of the dny, particularly In
connection with noldl* r ttlemontn.
Out in < all font in then* is a farm set
tlement, financ'd by the* utato. which
ha* proved a itrcat Hiiooesn. although
only a year old. This article, writ
by tho man who made It a auo-
Prof. Klwood Mead, tell* all
nhotil this first expcrlmc.it In com
munity farming \
Th»* state land settlemwnt of Call for n a
at Durham has attracted nation-whir at
torn ion. Officials from t**n American
states and from Canada, and Australia,
have visited and made reports on the
scheme and irp results.
Th.n challenge to public attention Is
not dm* ♦» th* siz« of the money appro
printed to finance It It mows out of tho
fne! that is Is an attempt to solve in a
definite way some problems of rural life
in tl»e United State* that for th* last 25
years have caused growing anxiety and
unrest.
Students of rural conditions have
nitre,>d that the procrean of the country
wm not keeping pace with the progress
of cities That educated boys and girls
are leaving the farm, that tenantry is in -
or* using, that mjl fertility is not being
maintained, that the Intelligent indus
trious American farm laborer is disap
pearing and his place Is being taken by
al.ens. In these and other particulars
♦he currents of our rural life are set lng
In the wrong direction.
The ownership and use of land by tlms*
wire farm it is the surest means of pro
moling human endeavor and good cltt
fenahtp The control of land by those
who use it should, therefore, be t.hc aim
of our government. The road to owner
ship should be made ;n broad and easy
as possible. The social and political un
rest of liu» world, growing out of the
World War, makes it especially urgent
that this country should he earnest in
fostering anything that will help men to
be good and contented citizens
The farmer and hi* family are more
Important than the farm Rural com
munities Interested in good government,
health and morality are wn imperative
nerd of democracy. The farmer and his
family must have oportunities for re
creation and intellectual enjoyment. The
country must be made as dernorratie and
attractive as the city, not simply for the
well to do. but to all who live there.
Cal fortiia ts striving to achieve then#*
results by giving broader opportunities
to tenant farmers and to young men and
women to become home owners; l»y en
listing the etvl“ pride and altruistic ser
vice of its citizens and by mohllirng the
accumulated knowledge and experenoo ol
the fltatc Agricultural College and other
The Great American Home
\\i pet Joukl Will either
<juiT that oowlimg
claised with the '‘progressives” in the
senate, such senators as Kenyon, Norris.
LaFolletfe, Johnson and Oronna. In
framing the railroad legislation, which has
occupied most of his senatorial attention
ihe past two years, Cummins worked
band-in-hand with such reactionaries as
Towns* d of Michigan, Watson of Indiana
Q 4 Hogg of Minnesota, co-builders of the
railroad bill.
Cummins was born at Carmichael*, Pa.,
Feb. 15. JBSO, and was educated in the
schools and college at. Waynesburg, Pa.
THE DURHAM PLAN.
The Ft ate buys land at lowest
obtainable price.
Swamps are drained, cut-over
hi tel is cleared, and irrigation sup
plied on dry lands.
Hoads are laid out. schoolhouses
built, community park, meeting
place and recreation field, are in
cluded In the plan.
Persons who are to setlle on the
land are given first opportunity to
work, draining, building roads,
houses. For this they are paid, or
tlie amount is placed to their pur
chase credit.
The settler chooses size and style
of his home, barns and other farm
buildings.
IT*- pays his proportionate share
of all cost, his share being based
upon the proportionate value of the
land he g' ts.
A small cash payment is made,
th»* remaining sum being payable
over a long term of years, at 6 per
cent Interest.
The community plan includes
state aid in agricultural instruc
tion. marketing and financing.
•tate agencies, to create rural neighbor
hoods according to carefully thought-out
plans.
A progressive rural neighborhood must
have as a basis the right kind of people.
They must love farm life, have the in
dustry and character essential to suc
cess They soi k to become land owners,
not to sell out at a profit, but becauso
they want to own the tree*» they plant,
the house they Hv~ In and to feel that
they are a permanent and respected part
of the community where they live. The
California land settlement act seeks to
give the concrete form to these Ideas.
The close of the war found industries
unsettled, food supplies s’jirco and costly,
many soldiers desiring th* open life of
the country, but refusing to become ten
ant farmers Providing farms for sol
diers has. therefor*, becon-o a national
task of all wavring coi'n<ries and espec
ially of those of English speech.
Twenty American states have passed
laws which are more or less copies of tho
f’a’lforrla statute, and federal legislation
for soldier settlement in accord with its
Mean md methods have been widely ad
vocated by the Departments of Interior
and Labor.
WM. C. BOYDEN NAMED.
Wazhinoton.-—Tho American It**d Cross
received notification from Geneva Friday
of the appointment of William Cnwper
Rovden. of Chicago, as the Leagou of
Red Cross Societies’ commissioner for
Poland.
WOULD HAVE IRISH
j VOTE ON REPUBLIC
Hopes or Non-Military Alliance
Between England and America.
By' HENRY BECKETT.
New York.—"!'' W-ra len’t p-r.-dent
of Ireland, and tho agitator* behind him
don’t represent Ireland. It might be well
for us to prove It by asking Ireland as
a whole to vote her wish**.”
A. G. Gardlne**. who as pilot of the
ferrous London Daiiy News, ia este-rn
| < d by many the greatest living hpwb
i paper editor, said that as he embarked
j for home. Hearing how Irish Hyrnpathit
i era told the Senate Foreign Affairs Com
mittee they* would welcome war with
England for Ireland's sake, he declared
the thre.- countries have too common
a love for lib rty to clash over its ap
plication.
“Sir Kdward Carson and ht£ reaction
aries make the trouble in Ire’and, an
Gardiner sees it. ''Reactionaries rank'*
every revolution. I don’t exited revolu
tion in America, but If it comes your re
actionaries will cause it.
“Im prepared to follow self-govern<-
merit to the end, hut I’m cure th>* feat
mass of the Irish don’t want a repub ie.
I’m confident that dominion home-rule
will settle the business.
Gardiner thinks America begin* to
show signs of a growing imperialism,
1 ke old Germany’s, and regrets a dis
trust of Great Britain, which be con
siders unjustified.
“With us l'beralism always triumphs
in the end,” he Insists. “England wants
to give Ireland what she wants, just as
Canada had her desire granted v. no
after England lost the American colonics
by denying the same wish.
“I opposed the Boer war, but now
.South Africa has self-government, and
is satisfied.
“The British empire is not really an
empire at all It is a league of self
governing nations.”
Gardiner believes the world’s faith, in
Itself depends upon America’s confi
dence In a better order, which a league
of nations might establish.
“The fate of the League of Nations
i* in American hands,” he feds. “It is
idle to suppose that such a league is
possible without the whole-hearted sym
pathy and support of America. The
corner-stone of the league was to abolish
competitive armaments, and secure a
cordial and enduring understanding be
tween our two commonwealths.
“What I look for from this war is an
equally Impressive memorial, worthy of
the great act of faith 100 years ago. The
greatest possible memorial would be to
eliminate the possibility of competitive
armaments at sea batween our two
great English-speaking commonwealths.
“We shall have many occasions for
disagreement, but with tliic we could
face them without apprehension. The
danger point is the sea. Let us steriliz**
that danger po'nt, not bv idle under
takings as to relative naval strength,
but by deciding that our armies shall
never compete, but shall be pooled to
preserve the world’s peace and free
scan.
“I do not suggest a military alliance
of the old pattern, with inclusions and
exclusions, amt friendships that Imply
hostilities, with all the old parnpher
nal'n of pretense that has always led
to disaster. I conceive of such a scheme
as the League .of Nations, presenting a
menace to no nation, but the assurance
of enduring peace to all."
HELPFUL HEALTH HINTS
It is more blessed to do things than
people.
No man will ever have health until he
gets health.
There is a normal natural way to lose
your troubles —work hard and forget
them.
The physician who depends upon drug
threapy cannot hope to cure those con
ditions of ill health due to mechanical
disturbances of the human economy. Me
chanical lesions demand mechanical
treatment.
The most fastidious patient, as well as
the rebellious child who invariably re
sents the administration of drugs, will
readily take an osteopathic treatment
without objections, as it is decidedly
soothing, aiwavs pleasant, and entirely
free from injurious after effects.
The strenuous life of those whose
days are spent indoors is bound to leave
its traces upon the individual so situat
ed. While osteopathy cannot remedy the
cause of the general devitalization. ti
aids markedly in overcoming the results
of a sedentary life, by establishing a
good appetite, normal nerves, cheerful
spirits and general well-being.
LABORITES ELATED
London. —Laborites were elated by the
surprising result in the Spen Valley by
election, where the workingmen's candi
date, Tom Myers, carried the seat
against such a strong parliamentarian as
Sir John Simon, fe.mtr secretary for
home affairs.
Even the most fervent supporters of
the labor party did not foresee such a
victory, although prepared for a big poll
after the recent elections had shown the
unsuspected strtngth' of their adherents
In every part of the country, even in the
most purely agricultural districts. The
turnover of votes ha«» >een very heavy
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per and also the local news published herein.
on every occasion where a laborite has
entered the tight during the recent by
elections.
This time a laborite in the Spen Val
ley increased the pool from 8,508 to 11,-
062, while in Plymouth the laborite
vote rose from 5,324 to 9,292. and at
Busheime from 2.985 to 6,412. At Brom
ley where hitherto there had been no
labor candidate \n the late by-tlectioh.
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IT’S FUN TO GO TO SCHOOL
If you have a bicycle to carry you. No more
lunches out of a bqx. Ride home and iet
mother give you the real thing. And after
school you’re home again in no time, books
away, and the whole afternoon before you.
You never have to got excused for tardiness
if you
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the labor candidate polled 10,077. and
at fit. Albans, a laborite making a bid
for a formerly uncontested seat, se* ured
8.908 votes.
Since wool is cheaper than last year,
the high price of woolen clothing .bust
be due to the price of cotton. —Albany
Journal.