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HOUSTON TEXAS THURSDAY. .
...JANUARY 25 1923
Sugar Refining Another Houston Opportunity
The announcement that sugar refinery capitalised at $2500000
will be erected at once in Texas City remind us of Houston's own ad-
vantages that are being overlooked. The one sugar refinery In Texas a
great industry In Sugar Land Imports raw sugar in cargo shipments
tram Cuba refines it manufactures numerous byproducts and has the
great West as a market for Its product.
There is no reason why coast cities should not have other refineries
and the capitalists who own Texas City utilities have determined to add
a great sugar industry to absorb the energy of the community and to
utilize the pert facilities established there.
Sugar cargoes could be unloaded at Manchester or some other eligi-
ble point on the ship channel refined the byproducts which are many
manufactured and all marketed advantageously in the great Trans
. massissippl region. Such an industry would sustain an Industrial popu-
lation of several thousand whose earnings and Incomes would filter
through mercantile channels in Houston.
Houston's advantage are equal in all respects to those of Texas
City as a site tar a sugar industry aad Include some that neither Texas
CHy awr Sugar Land has.
' The refinery at Sugar Land and the proposed refinery at Texas City
could not in any sense render a similar industry in Houston less desir-
able. On the ooatrary by expanding the industry in the vicinity of the
Texas coast all would benefit for there would be In this district a
greater market for refined sugar and byproducts of sugar and the
greater the market the greater the economies that would inure to the
benefit of alL
Houston is destined to use the ship channel to the limit of her in-
dustrial necessities. Chemicals and commercial fertilisers are being
manufactured of raw materials brought in oil is being refined from
crude petroleum piped in from Texas oil Melds flour Is being milled
from grain grown in the interior and soon Texas raw cotton will be
keeping Houston spindles busy. There is likewise room to make a
great sugar market of Houston by bringing cargoes of Cuban raw sugar
here discharging them from the ships into the refinery and loading the
refined product and all byproducts from the refinery Into cars for dis-
tribution throughout the Transmlsslsslppi region.
It was an outride corporation that determined to locate the refinery
at Texas City a small city which has no great amount of capital of its
own. Houston with an abundance of home capital and in close touch
with all financial centers of the country as well. Bight well find la
agar refining a profitable Industry for its own capital and Industrial
enterprise.
Sugar refining Is as logical and natural an Industry for the channel's
Industrial district as ia oil refining or the manufacture of cotton fer-
tiliser cement dhemlcala flour or other products for export or for dls-
trieettoa in the United States. All these Indus trie require energy
a large quantity of which Houston has and which needs employment.
The channel shares afford ideal locations for Industrial communities
and every tedastry located there means lust that much more wealth
and prosperity for Houston.
The milSon-doUar cotton mill la not all that Houston needs. A
25000 sugar refinery such as Texas City is soon to have ought to
find i borne 1b the Port of Houston.
A Chicago jwsge fined a sua tiooe for tot-
lag a sua aad fa does look ta as that each
judicial doings night give a gift-packer a touch
of the sober stooad thought There ait so
many things a tallow might not do with th
cost of doing fixed at a thousand bucks.
Grand Naff is right when. he say much
of the $ jo ooo.ooo the people of Texas spend
upon latusanaatt leaves ta State but the us
he proposes will aot hit the outsiders. Our
own folks will have to pay H.
Almost any old democrat will tell yon he
doesn't know who tht caadidat will be next
year but that ha hopes it will be somebody
who hasn't run heretofore.
That was teamwork ia Cedar Rapids want
it ? We are alluding to the rain girl who mar-
ried twin brothers and it was teamwork again
hen the twin-brides sued their twin-husbands
for divorce.
Schools Need Poll Tax Money
Though there w.ll likely be no Important elections this year every
citizen should remember one thing daring this poll tax paying period:
The schools will be In session and the schools need thai dollar they
receive frosa every poll tax payment
The revenue of the schools from other State source has been cut
down materially this scholastic year. The per capita appropriation has
been decreased ta 110 as compared witi. 113.50 last year and fit In
. the previous year.
The raid os the available school funds msde possible by the text
book change it has been figured out means the cutting off of one
month of the school term for many of the schools of the State If add!
Uonai revenue be not secured.
While this decrease In revenue is brought about the schools must
go on. Teachers must be paid and they must not be paid any less for
i the cost of living is aot falling. The schools should be kept open for
their usual terms new textbooks or no new textbooks.
Every Indifferent citizen who fails to pay bis poll tax injures the
children of the Stats a dollar's worth reckoned in money values. Reck
oned to other valaos sues as depriving them of the opportunity for edu-
cational improvement at the proper time In their lives the injury Is
much snore grievous.
' The schools ought to get at least $2000000 from the poll taxpayers
of the State. Is there a citizen of Texas In this enlightened age when
the value of education is so widely recognized who for the sake of $1.50
would deprive the school children of what Is rightfully theirs?
Only about one more week remains In- which the citizen may per-
form this the least of his dudes toward the school system. pay your
poll tax today.
The Beggar Problem
The presence of many beggars on the streets does not harmonise
with our American standards nor with the claims of our modern charit-
able organizations. The Increasing number of these people on the
Streets of Houston is giving Houston the appearance of a city in a back
s' ward country that makes no pretense of solving the beggar problem.
The proposed ordinance based em a suggestion by Dr. Slaughter
a head of the Houston Foundation ought to be passed. Under its pro-
visions the bersrars can ha rfmnriJ wfrhnnt anMAfttna' anv wnrtli
' J "tmroftunxtes to hardship or injustice. The cases of those asking alms
' I Would be investigated under this oroDosad law. am! thaaa found tn ho
awmwj " mkvu wwu w iaacu aw oi u j uio Dsivenon Army out
. f jttundf provided by the city while the importers would be driven from
l s tus is a lair solution of the problem for both the beggars and the
: i people of Houston in the promiscuous giving of alms there Is no as-
T s'arance that the worthy are being served. The public has no way of
' distinguishing the beggar really in need and the faker in the business
f tor profits. Investigations tn other cities have found many of Ui
impostors were getting rich from the dimes of the tender-hearted
passersby.
" While the personal element In ministering to human need Is always
TEo be commended In its rightful place charity to be effective and to be
a h'J? rather than a hindrance must be organized. It must bo dis-
jMarsed Intelligently.
Assist the needy aad drive the fakers out of town Is a good program
for (he dty to adopt.
'la aoane respects tim young duke of York is worse off than the aver
age yonng ansa wit hoot funds. Custom demands that he Mln from
working tor his Uvtag while the mere commoner has his Ufa tn his own
hands England win lack a good deal of being a democratic country as
long as members of the ruling family are supported in Idleness and for
bidden to
The rains that began falling over South Texas Sunday night mean
much to the farmers. The drouth In many sections was becoming se-
rious afach land was too dry to plow and farmers wore becoming un-
easy for the future through the delay In soil preparation. Crop pros
pects this prtef are aaatacially brightened by another of those mllllon-
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Early Monung Observations j
y George M. alley. .
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Mr. Bryan's specifications and qualifications
of the next democratic candidate are plain
enough for most people but if he wants infants
under the age of one year to understand him it
would probably be best for him to say. "I am
against everybody else but myself."
Just 104 years ago today the University of
Virginia of which Thomas Jefferson was
foonder was chartered. And according to our
modern doings and notions it bids fair to out-
live tha Declaration of Independence which
seems to be getting groggy or has it been de-grogged?
Governor Pinciot reduces his salary as gov
ernor of Pennsylvania from $18000 a year to
$10000. If he wants to have some real econ
omy he ought to try to live on what the gov
ernor of Texas gets. If it wouldn't make him
think about raiding the Harrisburg henroosts
we are much mistaken.
There are just six more days in which you
can qualify to vote in 1913 by paying your poll
tax. There are going to bt bond elections this
year and you won't have s word to say you
poor fish.
Texas has just enjoyed a $100000000 rain
morth every cent of it. If that much water
should fall in Rhode Island it would require
the skill of deep sea divers to locate the tall
spires of Providence.
It wis not less a victory Wally Reid won be
cause it cost him his life- The spirit which
carried his flag of "No surrender is immortal.
North Carolina which within the past two
years has expended la 00000a aa permanent
improvements at her university and Star AgrU
cultural and Mechanical college is preparing to
expend $3000000 more on these institutions.
The oldest of American commonwealths and
yet the most youthful by gum I
January is on its last legs and your poll tax
is unpaid you I t-s per cent American. And
you arc going to howl agin the government like
a 100 per cent plnsstr.
There are wildcats and wildcats. Too heavy
a tax oa the wildcat well will make the wildcat
sick.
The G. 0. P. in the Toih
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Twenty-Five Years Ago
Front The Howaton foet Fllte.
The Oklahoma advocate of a ifoooooo-bale
cotton crop is a speculator who is aot concerned
much about what the producer gets. We favor
a 16000000 crop when Eorop shows the abil-
ity to buy a change of shirts aad afford a dean
collar oace a week.
According to the archaeologists the 1st Ring
Tutankhamen of Egypt B. C 14x7 had all his
provision and valuables buried with him. There
are rich nuts of that character living nowadays.
They think they can take their stuff with then
and get to heaven with it but posterity will dig
it all up again.
John Sharp Williams startled the senate the
other day by charging that most of them were
unbelievers and at best were onlv perfunctarv
Christians. Some State will have to send Billy
Sunday to the senate if that's the condition.
Austin is to have a million-dollar hotel which
ia all right for Austin. Houston is going to
have that million -dollar cotton factory that
will mark the beginning of a real industrial
spread her if the legislator doesn't kill the
enterprise.
They say that sugar that is eaten iuIm al
cohol in the body but who wants to eat a bar
rel 01 sugar f
There is sn Ohio municipality that is out of
debt and has money in the bank ft must be in
Fairfield or Crawford counties that go demo-
cratic even when Darin and licking fa a.
Many a Jury is aa awful liar when it brings
ia s verdict that the defendant is not vuittv nf
the charge of murder upon which he was tried.
Dr. Percy Stickney Grant is threatened with
a heresy trial in New York unless he retracts.
If a man believe it retraction or recantation
only make him a pal blue liar.
John L. Lewi says of the Herrin verdict that
"once more the enemies' of labor arc defeated.
When the law fail to convict murderers it is
the law that is defeated. And if mobs can de-
feat the statute against murder martial law
will answer with lead.
Some Postscripts
There b a case on record of a frog reviving
r ocmg uuzea m a solid mock or tee.
A clock ticking seconds takes one week four
oays and tourteen hours to tick 1000000 times
In order to eradicate cattle fever ticks there
were 480905 dippings of cattle last year.
Siamese rice growers of the interior fear to
convert their rice into money because bandits
preter casn.
Scarcity and high cost of sugar in Germany
have greatly increased the demand for honey
At Cantigsty France a little red school house
is being erected in memory of the American
soldier woo tought there.
The spectroscope can detect the millionth of
a milligram of matter and tell the nature of
matter billions of miles away.
Fact oris ia the Philadelphia district turn
out 1000000000 cigar a year or one-seventh
ef the entire output of the United States.
The tmdersurface of whales is sometimes in-
fested with barnacles as sre the bottoms of
ships but sot with the same kind of barnacles.
Mis I. Tuholaki of Saa Francisco is a manu-
facturer of pickles and relishes. She was th
first to prepare salmon caviar on the Pacific
coast.
Washington January ai-r-Thr" ejection si
lase resulted ia the sneet spectaculai victory
tor the republican party any party ever achieved
in ear political history. The country was is a
SUM ef violent eruptive' idioti hy sterfct as-
sailing everything and everybody with any pre-
tense to sanity. The republican plurality ex-
ceeded 7.000000 votes aad it required no Solo-
mon to ec that this great C Q. P. victory wa
in reality a great G. a P. calamity.
Just aa everybody lovr a lover so all Amer-
ica loves a new president la popular esteem
he is endowed with all the virtues aad all the
wisdom of all the age. He is the incarnation
of victory and never before was there political
victory such as that Warren G. Harding
"achieved in igao. The honeymoon of the
administration was the most delirious the moat
extravagant th most rapturous ever aad the
inauguration would have been th meet brilliant
aad most spectacular the moat pompous and
moil ostentatious pageant ever Pulled off in this
town but for an unfortuitou circumstance
touching the inauguration hall aad pregnant
with the "equality" of race issue.
Everybody was happy. Everybody was vic-
torious. Everybody was promised everything.
And thus things remained for more than a year
and the honeymoon promised to he perpetual.
Wa a reform suggested? Instantly it was
"achieved" for thi is an administration tha:
makes a wish a boss. For example there are
the billion we advanced th allies to enable
them to defend American democracy against
the assaults ef German autocracy. Th admin-.
istration promised prompt collection. It wss
a process of extorting blood from a turnip.
Some ill-natured chaps denied that a turnip had
any blood to spare and other ill-mannered
chaps suggested that if there was blood in the
turnip the turnip needed it and it were better
for all concerned including our glorious Union
that the said turnip retain all that precious
blood to stabilize the European market for
American surplus products. But these were all
shoved aside. The administration was not only
bent on collecting the billions but ea securing
the market also that annually was to fetch us
more than "all the wealth of sither Ind." Thus
we ate our cake and had it. The miraculous
was become a daily "achievement" of th new
and idolized administration.
Our glorious I'nion was completely isolated
in an international sense. True w were
philanthropists; but we had no succor for the
miserable ia despair abroad though w de-
pended on those miserables to buy our good'
end pay for them cash gold though we had
about all the gold then extant the world over.
The Christian peoples of Europe looked on our
shift from Wilsonism to Ledgeitm and were
aghast with amazement and despair. Our ideal
ity was vanished; our leadership was a myth.
Europe was completely disillusioned and -concluded
that American ideality consisted of 0
resolve to acquire and hold all the property
ail the wealth of the world aad then seise the
moon for a cabbage patch and a krout factory.
Is it any wonder that Europ in th throes
of despair turned back to the policy of "the
balance of power" that had hatched a hundred
wars? Look at the deplorable condition of
France today the proudest and bravest of all
the nations of history. France moved by fear
of Germany see with the eye of Louis XI.
of Francis I of Sully of Richelieu of Louvois
and is Pre Daring to nrartire th
craft of Biunarck. That is what that invasion
of the Ruhr means. England is again turned
the shop keeper Napoleon said she was. Every
estate 01 inristenaom and of heathendom also
is completely isolated insane with fear and
powerless in the kbsd of that insatiate nm.
selfishness.
Never in all the story of man was the world
in so great need of a leader as now. I do not
mean an individual leader but the leadership
of an entire people such a wa the leadership
of America for that sace of time beginning
with the armistice that put an end to the slaugh-
ter of the world war and the exploitation of a
certain hellish "Round Robin" that forbade
America to continue the moral leadership of thr
world that Woodrow Wilson had achieved for
his country.
Had we grasped that leadership clung to it'
practiced it all the world would have heeded
and hearkened to us- Our nod would have
commanded the world. By this time the world
would have been practically unarmed-. Justice
would have supplanted "the balancr of power"
as an international policy. The tread of man-
kind would have been in paths of peace. Greece
would have behaved. Turkey as a militant
power would have remained prostrate. Ger-
many would be a teeming shop as would
France. Italy would be set on her financial
industrial commercial legs and on the road to
solvency. And in due season we would have
got a deluge of blood out of that turnip without
harm to the turnip. Wilsonism was the one and
only way to collect those billions continental
Europe owes us.
But as long as Lodge ism maintains we stand
no more chance to collect the money continental
Europe owes us than the bond holders of the
Confederate States of America stand to realize
on those securities. Europe is in a state of
chaos without a particle of confidence in
America whom she regards as a composite of
bhylock and Trapbois.
And the Harding administration in command
of the Ship of State drifts and drifts and drifts
on s sea of uncertainty drunk as the Baltic
ocean and so it will be as long as Lodgeism is
our international policy.
L. U Foster of Valatco Is a guest at the
Hutchias Hens.
Mrs. George W. Stieff deiwrted. via the Gulf
Air Lin for Florida.'
J. E. Hitl. prominent attorney ef Livingston
is visiting in the city.
The Light Guard are leaking extensive
preparations for their fifth annual ball wch
will take place tomorrow evensag at th armory.
Colonel W. B. Stossoa ha returned from
Kansas' with a delegation of Meaaonltts who
will loot ia a colony contiguous to Houston.
Mtssr. Childress McGowan aad Jones re
turned from s trip to New Orleaas where they
went to inspect the new Edison electric light
plant ef that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Atwoed Jon gav t
reception sad dance ia honor of Mis Gibeoa
of Dallas and th Misses Biggs of Pittsburg
who ar visiting Miss Jones.
The five Irish organization of th city voted
to donate the proceed of their St. Patrick's
Day celebration to the purpose of securing a
deep water port for the city.
Mrs. J. L. Watson aad son Roy accompanied
by Miss Dixie Watson of New York are in th
ty stopping with Mrs. E. E. Shackletora
corner Hamilton and Walker streets.
Director for the Business League have been
selected ss follows : F. Hacker R. M. Johnston
G. A. Mistrot. H. F. MacGrcgor C H. Milby.
F. A. Reichardt. Rufus Cage W. D. Cleveland
and Ed Kiam.
The Houston Spiritual society gave s musical
entertainment at Bryan Hall. Among the enter-
ainer for the evening were Misses Ida Holt-
kamp B. Livingstone A. Hodgkins Messrs.
W. McDamel. Bell 0. Holtkamp W. Bennett
Griggs and Taylor.
Paul Flato wife sod daughter have returned
from a tour of Mexico. They were accom
panied by Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Flato of Shiner
and F. W. Flato Jr. and wife of Kansas City.
The trip was complimentary to Mr. and Mr.
Flato of Shiner who recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
Stats HArrssrsos.
Beaumont. P. H. Weiss has sold his grocery
and grain store.
Dallas. Barney Gibbs is said to be consider-
ing a return to democracy.
Gkkesal.
Havana. The United States battleship Maine
arrived here gave the customary salutes which
vtre returned and the customary formalities
ere gone through with. Newspapers have p ra
ided that the Maine s visit here would bring
n a conflict.
That's Whst Made Him tick
(Frees Chicaga News.)
' Some million at Asswrirsas knew tittU or
nothing about Turkey except that the auitan
ttxrtj-es -wivo. ... ; .- ljt;
A Clean Bill of Health
By Irvln 8. Cobb.
After the homesteader had followed the
treasure-seeker into Alaska an ambitious new
comer who had more of optimism than of ex-
perience undertook sheep raising. In the eyes
of tse old settlers who mainly were gold-hunt
ers by profession the sheep business was a de
basing occupation.
An Eskimo dog the prize performer of a
team belonging to an old prospector killed a
sheep belonging to the ranchman and the latter
brought action for damages. The evidence was
conclusive enough but the owner of the guilty
dog and his lawyer had wit enough to demand
a jury trial of the case and to see to it that the
jury was made up exclusively of mining men.
After bearing the evidence and the argu
ments the twelve good men and true retired to
make a judgment. Almost immediately they
returned and the foreman speaking for hint
self and his associates gave this finding :
"In the fust place jedge this here jury sol
emnly declare that this is a dog country and
not no sheep country. In the second place this
here dog has always been a peaceable dog so
it stands to reason that the sheep must hsv
jumped on him fust. Such bein' the case we
decide that this here sheep man has got to pay
all the costs and don't git no damages.
"And the dog is net guilty on the grounds
ot. sen-aetense.- .
(Copyright losi. by McNaught Syndicate Inc.)
And Deal ef Uquor'e Gene Down.
; (From tht Ohio State Jaurual.)
'A great 4el of water etc has gone eves the
wheel etc! sine the Eighteenth amendment
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The Gist of Coue
By Dr. Frank Crane. .
The gist of Coue is the old scientific truth
hat faculty precede function in evolution.
while th old religious truth expressed by
Horace Bushnell is that duty is not to be meas-
ured by ability.
In plain English it is that somehow snd at
oie time the thing will happen if we all look
or it hard enough.
Bolton Hall tells a story to the effect that
he went out into the streets snd gazed np at a
flag pole. Presently some one stopped beside
him.
" What are you looking at ? "
"Oh. the flag."
"I don't see any flag said th newcomer.
Another man stopped and the first said to
the second "Do you see that flag?"
"Where?"
"Why up there on that pole.
Others stopped to see what Has going on.
"The flag they are looking at the flag."
"Where?"
" Why up there ; don't you ee it ? "
"Oh yes " said one "I see it" and somebody
else plainly saw it too.
There up there the flag" said several.
Presently the janitor stuck his head out of
the window.
'What's the row" he shouted.
The flag they are looking for the flag."
'Why of course" he said "I'll put it right
up."
And he did.
Day by day in every way if you keep on ex
pecting anything som thing is liable to happen.
By and by somebody will always hang out
the flag.
Copyright. 183. by Frank Crane.)
Crime and the Courts
1 (From Forbit Magasint.)
In twenty-eight cities of the United States
there were 1910 murders in 1921. Nowher
else on earth is life apparently held so cheap
and is the machinery of the law so ineffective.
The record shows more murders in one Ameri-
can city in one year than in all of England.
That is explained in part by the stable popula
tion of England and the mixed and shifting
population of this country. Another reason is
the comparative ease with which in America
bad characters can obtain deadly weapon the
court delays and the small proportion of con-
victions to the number of crimes.
A remarkable sidelight on this whole matter
is furnished by a Brooklyn magistrate who ac-
cuses s supreme court justice of granting per
mits to suspicious characters to carry pistols
and by the district attorney's office which de-
clares gunmen criminals snd others manage in
some manner to obtain permits whereas rep-
utable citizens have difficulty.
In some cities blackjacks dirks pistols aad
other deadly weapons arc on open display for
sale in the pawn broker shops. A person con
templating any crime from burglary to murder
has no difficulty in obtaining the necessary
tools if he has the price.
.fast a tyiyine cf awo
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OiiWaWM fttyimpiWfi jpwl j
The CMtlH Orlyec
It i not pleasant being spilled!
li way; I bate the thought of being killed' by
som ill-driven dray; and so with watchfulness
and zeal both handnpoa the steering wheal
I drive my panting caogmobile aad hear th
pisteas play. Tfca sua who's oseaiaf nay bt
wis with caution he easy chse; or he may
rank with reckless guys who split th road in
two; I know him not I take so" chance but
give hint roost a I advaaoj is princely pomp
and circumstance with "Safety First ia view.
There ar a million rules to tniad and oat must
mind them H or some fin morning h will
fmd hi costly bier and pall; and undertskers
will abound upon hi little plat of ground and
coroner will hang around hi parlor and his
hall. Thtre are a million useful rule by safe-
ty sharp best wed t guide th delegate who
tool his bus slong tht road ; and if on rule
is overlooked th goose of some on win bt
cooked sad by th heirs I will be booked to
writ a graveyard ode. I always keep the road
in sight when I drive forth at mora; I look to
left I look to right I yell snd sound my horn ;
I signal with my snow whit hand my curve
are wonderful ana grand; if any says rule
should be canned I view that gent with scorn.
Walt Mason
(Copyright 193 by George Matthew Adams.)
We Hope 80. '
Templeton His is a vary curious disease.
He imagines himself a famous opera singer.
Cattleman Aad have th doctor any hope
of curing his peculiar er melody?
Happiness
SY S06AS A. CUSST.
It msy b th gift of s friend or s word
Th trail ef s Jby th song of a bird.
The touch of a hand or the thrill of a deed.
The spark in a jest er the faith of a creed;
It may be in little it may be in much
The hem f a garment perhaps that we touch
But happiness always the light of our day.
Come into our present in numberless ways.
It may be the lilt of a song which we hear -An
ty with twinkle an eye with a tear;
It may be a boy with s mischievous smirk.
It may be a pond where the pickerel lurk
A patch of blue sky overhead or a tree
A garden a mountain a bit of (he tea
A lane that is shady when true lover stray
Where happiness isn't no mortal can say.
There's aotbing too large and there's nothing
too small
To offer the joy which we seek after all.
It may lie in a poem some artist hss penned
Or a few written lines which s loved-one may
send
It may be s picture it may be a book.
It may be a kiss or it may be a look.
Oh it msy be anything under the sun
From many s trifle it happiness won.
Of minutes not years sre our memories
made
The life of a blossom which hastens to fade
The light of a sunbesm the weight of the
breeze.
Too tenderly fashioned too fragile to seize;
A word that was spoken a smilr that is gone
A song that is finished yet still ringing on.
And we learn as we draw to the dose of our
days.
That always about us our happiness stays.
(Copyright 1923 by Edgar A. Guet.)
Must Have Had.
Hillery I went down cellar last night on
er errand and who should I meet but a policeman.
Dsteson You lucky devil 1 So you have a
cook now?
The Days.
The days art mine. The sunny day
Tht rainy day the day of cold ;
The day that waste itself swsy
The day that turns itself to gold.
The days are mine ; and with them I
May laugh aad live or pine and die.
All days are mine ... a wealth of days
Crowding each other running fast
Lining the smooth aad rocky ways
Aad beckoning as they fly past.
Rich day days full of peace or strife
Days dark with d-ath or bright with life.
And all these day are mine ; but wait I
There is but one that I may keep I
Tomorrow is not born and Fat
Has Yesterday buried fast asleep I
Alas of all these days 1 may
Have only one . . . just one I . . . Today!
Richmond Tunes-Dispatch.
Past Present and Future.
Poet You seel I'm ten years ahead of my
time I
Landlord That mi he. but vou're four
months behind with your room rent I
Greatness.
He has. achieved the height unhelped alone.
lhe way wa steep and many a cutting stone
liHurt his brave feet but ever on he pressed
Unwavering and rescued nis goal bis Dest.
Ner can he joy in his achievement no
While there sre footworn toiling ones below
He looks with pitying eyes that understand
A tender smile; he rcsches out hit hand.
Hi Strength te their poor feebleness is lent
So a he great with noble discontent.
Till others share the good that he has won
Aad those who toil in darkness find the sun.
Bertha Gerneaux Woods in Christian Herald
Solicitous Politicians
(From the Kansas City Star.)
It is fine how solicituos the politicians al-
ways arc to relieve the people of responsibility
and worry. They would just as soon take the
responsibility of voting off the shoulders ef the
people and attend to everything from the aomi
natiag to the electing themselves. It is in line
with this solicitude that a Kansas State senator
is reported to have a bill ready for the legisla
ture to permit party conventions te pick tht
candidates in advance allowing th voter te
go through the form of ratifying the choice at
the primarie. If the people would only con
tent to this (light revision of the existing pri
mary system the politicians can assure them
everything will be taken care ef decently and
m order without bothering tbe voter at all.
The political managers always are good and
thoughtful that way. Just trust them to fix
things up.
Hence Is Profound.
(From th Spriifuld Mass. Union.
Listening intently with both ears we haven't
heard s angle Frenchman boast that Senator
La Foflettc hss a French name.
. That Much In Their Favor.
." (Fro-a PUtstmrf fatall Timts.)
There is see feature ef th muss iot vrhich
we feel grsteful to tht Turk. None it pro-
ftowf to fonts serf g. texture. . r - ' r ..
Presidential leadership
(From tht World's Work or January.)
The constitution msjpe it the president's
duty to lay before congress at th beginning
of each new session his proposals for legisla
tion ; by giving him the veto power over all acts
of congress it puts ia this one hand as much
authority over lawmaking as two-thirds of the
senate and house combined ; how absurd to say
in view of these constitutional provision that
th president has properly no concern with
legislation! So long a President Wilton in
terpreted these provisions as implying execu-
tive leadership his administration was a sue
cess; the great legislative achievements of hi
first term were the direct product of an bly
co-ordinating admin istration with th president
serving as the energiser. This was executive
leadership ; the later phase of Mr. Wilson's ca
reer which brought upon hit bead such strong
popular disapproval - were not expressions ef
leadership but of "autocracy" "dictatorship."
The presidential leadership bed given place to
the presidential isolation. . . . President Hard
ing' determination to keep within th precinct
of the White House therefore was not good
constitutionalism er good sense. The dmiais-
trstion must have a leader the nation must
have policies and these policies must have s
spokesman- Who to fitted to perform this task
a th president ? fast the adminittrstion has
floundered much in the domestic field and per-
mined telfish interest to tttaia a directing
voice is apparent ; the profiteer tariff is the
great monument ta this sheens of enlightened
lesdership; but h In foreign policy that the
lack of an energetic directing mind has bees
most lamentable. The fact is that the United
States at present bts aa fareiaw aolicy '.v
aTM-ia n.wf-innr r -nrrr
KnavUdta it prosd thai Af ftf 1w4
rFitaoti it ktmbt. jiff 4 kv man.
.'. -Tr ...;-rOte.
v"t4MhyWWMWVVM-AlvPe"ta
BqrgeM 6e4tima 3torief ";
Old Jed Thumper thews His sTrrtrtltuda. "
ay TaoasTOsfw. SUaOSSS'. .
Gratiindt will find (toy-''-: ' .iv -K.':
A thoifhtfal hindnau to ratath v ''f - V
. Jd axafMV;'f;f
Sooner or later bad things come to an fneV.
There cam a dty when Jack Free was SsUea i
or had gon off somewhere else ' JoOy ronod '
bright Mr. Sun did hit best to melt the lea n V
the trte and bushes aad by the time h was
ready 'to go to bed behind tha Purple Bum sV
the ice bad melted. There wa still a crust ea
tbe snow but the twigs sad branches and trunk ;
nf K - - - - -1 K . J 1 kk. h
free from ic. A -
' Tonight I'm going back te the CM rat-.
ture" said Old Jed Thumper. i'
Peter was sorry to hear him say it. He to-"
tually enjoyed having Old jed Thumper there
in the dear Old Briar Patch. It was hard to
believe now that he' had one been frid t( .
and bated Uid Jed thumper. "Yon are we- :
come to star here a lone as vou want to. said -
Peter. "Mr. Peter and I will bt glad to have '
you ttsy with us all winter." '
Old Jed Thumper shook his head. No"
said he "I mutt go back. I have stayed iongv
enough. I belong up in the Old Pasture and'
now that the ice is gone I shall get along nice-
ly up there. I think I will start tonight. " .
Nothing that feter or Mrs. Peter could say :
could make him change his mind. Old Jed :.
Thumper is sn obstinate old fellow. What he -makes
up his mind to do he doe. He had 'C
made up hi mind to go back te tht Old rat
ture f nd go he would. " :t i
Late that afternoon Peter who had been in -
th Old Briar Patch so long that he had srrown '
uneasy ventured out on th snow-covered ( I
(jreen Meadows. He wa of more than half a
"Tonight I'm going back te the Oht
Pasture" aald Old Jed Thumper. 1
mind to run over to the Green Forest. He wa '
sitting back to the dear Old Briar Patch some
little distance from it trying to make up his t
mind whether or not to go on. So it was that
he didn't tec Old Man Coyote come sneaking ' .
around from the other aid of th dear 01d "
Briar Patch. But Old Man Coyt saw Peter
and at once began to steal along so he couH '
gci iKiwccn we oear ma zsnar ratca anq x
Peter. Jf
It wa Old Jed Thumper who discovered htm.v
Now Old Jed Thumper could hsv thumped a
danger signal but it would have been too let.
Old Man Coyote was already between tbe dear-
Old Briar PaVh and Peter. Old Jed Thumper
saw thi. He didn't thump. Instead he hop- -ped
out of the dear Old Briar Patch' right in .
front of Old Man Coyote. He hopped out just
as if he didn't see Old Man Coyote. But all
tbe time he was watching him by rolling his
eyes back. -
Peter was tome distance away. Old Jed
Thumper was much nearer. Old Man Coyote
decided that it would be much less trouble to
catch Old Jed Thumper than it would bt to catch
Peter Rabbit- He crept forward twiftly and
noiselessly. Old Jed Thumper began to go fast-
er though not ss jf be were frightened or in
a special hurry. Old Man Coyote began to run.
The instant he did so Old Jed Thumper started
off bounding across the snow as only ht can.
Just once he stopped and that wa to thump
danger signal. Peter turned instantly. Then- 9
he started back for the dear Old Briar Patch -as
fast as his legs could take him. He held hi
breath as he saw Old Man Coyote sprint at' '
Old Jed Thumper. But the latter dodged jutt V.
at Peter had seen him dodge Reddy Fox np ia (
tbe Old Pasture. Old Man Coyott missed him.
Old Jed Thumper dodged again. And then ur '
headed straight back for the dear Old Brief? -Patch
which he reached safely. He haj shows) -his
gratitude to Peter by saving his life. And
that night went back to he Old Pasture. L f ; t
(Copyright igJ. by T. W. Burgess.) ' ':''
The Next Story "Peter Makes a Fright-
ful Discovery." -
Scrapping Engine 999 1 t
(From tht New York Herald.)
The New York Central has sent its famous
locomotive 999 to the scrap heap. At fat back '
as 1893 this engine with Charley Ifogan at v'
th throttle reached a speed of 114 miles erf :
hour between New York and Buffalo. No oter ''
steam locomotive has ever run a fast v;
There was s glamour about poo which even f:
the swiftest sirplsne can not dim. It nude the
Empire Stat Exp res a symbol for speed. Men
who were small boys in the '90s must feel today r
a slight thrill st sight ef the old augis nuts-.
bers. How many thousand watched lot 090 :
comiag up tht valley of the Hudson or driving 1
west across th State) ' :' v'
Nui ninetvhAitfiA mani mmn mam Sn fti'
railroad men thtn to small boys and tht public .
Whenever the engine was .brought fbte he )
shops for repair special mechanic were an? "
signed to work on it. special tool wtre Med '
to put it in. good conditionJ-jrh locetsofivt i. 1
was built is 189a ia West Albany. .It tvas re
built twice once in 190J and again fn'iost. -Beginning
in 1913 it wss unable to stand the 1
pace on the main line and was put te nulling ' '
slow trains on a branch (ins running by fh -Pennsylvania
coal mine. "
The steam locomotiv points a personality .
absent in the electric engine. The' only reason v '
for tbst perhaps lie in its being fed visibly
while tbe electric locomotive drawl it power '
from sn unseen source. Then too Jt mort.'
commonly has individual traits of crankiness . y-
of varying response of dependebiljty or erratic 1
performance. . ' ' j v k
There wa the Nashville locpmotivej No. sjo -which
had a personality almost human. It -.
killed an eatraordutsry number :wf passenger!
snd ended a career of violence by suicide :
th machine shop. A blows cylinder head 'aad V'
a crazy driving beam put fa end to bio. sjo v
Nine ninety-nine wss a good engine a great -.
engine. Nine ninety-nine .was the aristocrat w
of (team. But all the time the sorsp heap wai
waiting.
If e Long Way Back to. hormelcy '
. t - (Frm th Indvmaptfif 3vt.)
: ib lot of the . boys coming back Jfrom tht j
Rhine will have s hard time speaking Englii)
snd prinking .water.-' ?"
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