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M02E PRODUCTION NOT LESS THE
JTEED.
The proposal of Mr. Samuel Gompers for
universal seven-hour day during the war
is a. solvent for blockades congestion and
oihr industrial problems trill appeal to
many no doubt but it would save time
money and the bother of readjustment to
ny svieh condition as that to sue for peace
at once.
To adopt a sven-houx day for the purpose
of curtailing production at a time when
there is lack of production would be an act
of self-destruction.
There are employments it is true that
might reduce to seen hours a day or even
seven minutes a day. so far as the war is
concerned and help considerably if the en-
'ergy they now consume could be easily di-
verted to what may ie termed essential in-
dustries. But such labor does not divert easily and
experience is proving generally that the es-
sential industries are suffering for lack of
labor.
Look at agriculture for instance. The
country needs greatly increased produc-
tion -100 per cent increase if it were pos-
sible. And here is Mr. Gompers talking
ebout a universal seven-hour day. If agri-
culture in the I'nitfd States were to follow
Mr. Gompers' advice and operate upon a
seven eight nine or even ten-hour schedule
the' industrial laborers of the cities would be
apt to starve before the year is out.
The greatest embarrassment the country
is suffering now results from underproduc-
tion not overproduction: from not enough
hours of work not too many hours.
A universal severe-hour day in the United
States would mean perhaps a reduction of
an average of '2 per cent of the production
of the American worklngman. and at a time
when the vital interests of the nation are
suffering because production can not be aug-
mented by from .-0 to IjOO per cent.
It is high time that the people of the
Vnited Btates generally were aroused to the
urgency of the need of production. In the
matter of food alone the situation is one
of the most serious concern. Conservation
is aiding some but it is not beginning to
fcolve the real food problem of the nation
and unless people can be made to see the
necessities of the country there are going
to be hungry mouths in the United States
within another year.
It is not a question of prices either now
or hereafter although prices are impor-
tant it is a matter of the food itself. A
dollar is worth nothing to a starving man
unless it can purchase food and it can not
purchase food when all the food is gone.
Instead of reducing the number of hours
In the working day we must quit watching
the clock on Germany if we are to avert
crashing defeat. The energy of this country
must be quite as loyal as the soldiers are
and ordinary rules and regulations about
hours and days must be made subordinate
to the imperative needs of the country.
THE PROPOSED WAS CABINET.
The Post-dbes not doubt the sincerity of
" the motives of Senator Chamberlain In in-
- troducing his bill providing for the creation
of a war cabinet and bureau of munitions.
' Nor does the Post doubt that such a cab-
- inet if the personnel were of distinguished
quality would be extremely serviceable if
the president was favorable to its creation.
I The president selected his cabinet when
V- he was inaugurated in 1913 not expecting
that there would be a worldwide war soon
to follow and certainly not regarding it as
; possible that the Vnited States would be
r drawn into such war.
In all probat ility if the president had been
' t favored with the gift of prescience he would
have selected an almost entirely different
cabinet. Granting that his cabinet was pretty
well adapted1 to its probable tasks and re-
S sponsibilities at the time it was organized
"- It does not follow that it was the strongest
j cabinet that could be possibly organized for
. war purposes.
Senator Chamberlain is convinced that
such is the kind of cabinet needed at this
V time and it has occurred to him that his
plan offers a way for the president to have
" the counsel and1 aid of the strongest possible
i war board to be had without "interfering
with his friends in the cabinet.
But since the president objects to such
X a council it is very plain that It could be
' of no service to him even if it were created.
' The president would be over such a cabinet
and he would not permit it to absorb his
own prerogatives or the functions of his of--?
flee. And since that is his attitude we
; think the Texas senators ancV representa-
tives are very wise in opposing it. Such a
V council at loggerheads with the president
would simply be worse than confusion con-
; founded.
-The Post is still of the opinion that in the
4 present situation it would be fortunate if the
. president could assemble for a free confer-
. once the leaders of both house and senate
' neu of both parties and see if there is not
some way to compose the troubles which
- art threatening the country's success in the
war'
The partisan strife now on its way Is go-
ing to do no good. The president can not
wall get along without the aid of the re-
puhlteana. In fact he can not get along
without them at alL It would be better to
drop 'all party bickerings and conduct the
war along nonpartisan lines.
It would h better to compose differences
now than risk delay. Political feuds become
running sores II they are not promptly com-
posed. Bones of contention and element of
discord are not helpful in times' of war.
The president should get rid of them.
The American armies in France are soon
to be in action. If when such momentous
events are pending the world should have
to bebpld an unseemly wrangle in Washing-
ton our government would' be disgraced for
a hundred years to come.
Small bore politicians can not be ex-
pected to take the Initiative in composing
political quarrels. But a statesman of Mr.
Wilson's heft ought to be arble-to devise the
way and summon to his aid whatever of tact
may be necessary to carry his point.
NEW MEXICO'S DELINQUENT TAXES.
The New Mexico Tax Review published
by the taxpayers' association of that State
presents some interesting figures on the de-
linquent tax problem and makes certain ob-
servations which are of interest to the tax-
payers of Texas as well.
All the counties of New Mexico operate
under the same tax laws whjch are weak
and unsatisfactory but says the Review
where nine counties of the twenty-six collect
9a per cent of the taxes levied it Is fairly
clear that delinquency is not altogether
or even principally chargeable to the law.
In the entire State 91 per cent of the
taxes for the past four years have been col-
lected. In thirteen of the counties Pj 6 per
cent of all taxes have been collected. In
thirteen of the counties only 85 per cent of
the taxes have been collected.
In the four years a delinquency of $1114.-
824.28 has piled up for the entire State. In
thirteen of the counties the delinquency is
$;:9096S 42. In thirteen of the counties tlv
delinquency is $i053.s55.St.
Taking up individual counties the Tax Re-
view calls attention to the fact that: "If all
counties did as well as Lincoln the total de-
linquency would be only $79792.70; if ell
did as poorly as Sandoval it would amount
to $5026940.S1. The delinquency in - in-
doval ($84128.84) if collected would pa off
the entire county debt including the amount
due on salary certificates and leave a bal-
ance of nearly $10000." Sandtoval county
collected in the four years only US per cent
of the levied taxes.
The Review concludes that something
more than laws something more than easy
descriptions of real estate something more
than willingness to ay on the part of the
owner is needed in the collection of taxes;
and "this something we venture is collertors
who collect officers who do the work they
are paid for."
The determination of the city fathers that
Houston is not to vote on any bond issue dur-
ing 1018 is most wise. Bond isMtes mean money.
The goiernment needs all the money the coun-
try can spare during iqi8. Any rany that
rounties and municipalities us--" is just that mueli
taken from the general and vital need. Beside
all of which it is exceedingly difficult to sell
municipal bonds at fair prices in competition with
the government's Liberty Loan. And Houston
has no desire to pay 6 or 7 per cent for money
in these hard times.
A professor of the L'nivfrsity of Arir'on.i i"unl
latt summer conclusive evidence that in 017
A. D. the citizens of that State lived in a l ili
state of civilization. A thousand years from now
if tome excavator breaks into the archives buried
beneath the ruins of Washington and di-coers
that a great nation wasted nine months with a
foe threatening their very life it is probable
those descendants of present-day Americans will
be as greatly surprised as are the arch.iologists
of today at the New Mexican ruins of yesterday.
SOME P0STSCKIPTS.
Scotland Iastayear produced about 1.100000
long tons of potatoes more than double the crop
of the previous year and the greatest yield since
1889.
To keep germs out of glasses containing liquids
that are to be drunk a tight-fitting paper cover
through which a straw can be inserted has been
patented.
British colonial authorities in the West Indies
are experimenting with concentrating raw lime
juice by freezing out much of its water to save
bulk in shipping.
To rid soil of insects and weeds a roller has
been invented into which a boiler feeds steain
which is injected into the ground for several
inches through spikes.
An expert from the L'nited States has found
that the calmlla plant which grows wild in the
Dominican Republic yields a fiber from which
Linding twine can be readi'y made.
A hammer has been invented that also can ie
used as a wire-cutter and pipe wrench the angle
of the head from the handle being adjusted by a
thumb screw at the end of the latter.
Government scientists in India have succeeded
in making paper from three new materials leaves
of a West Australian plant timber from East
Africa and bark of a tree found in Rhodesia.
Geological survey experts have estimated that
Colorado's shales could be made to yield 20.000-
000.000 barrels of crude oil from which 2.000-
000.000 barrels of gasoline could be obtained.
The inventor of a steel railroad tie that also
serves as a cattle guard claims it can be laid in
half the time required for a wooden tie and
will prevent wrecks caused by rails spreading.
Kenttickian Marksmanship.
(From the Beannont Journal.)
Admiring Sammies crowding around tall
swarthy Kentucktans at Camp Zachary Taylor
near Louisville can't for the life of themselves
explain how it's done.
The ordinary "select" at the start of his train-
ing knows as much about shooting straight as a
mountaineer knows about running a battleship.
Consequently when they foregather around the
Kentucky lankies and sec them hit a half an inch
target so far away that an ordinary man's eye
can't locate it they wonder how it's possible.
The skill of these Kentnckians. however and
the lack of skill in the use of 'firearms by the
average citizen clearly indicates the gulf between
the fighting efficiency of the modern luxury-bred
American and the American of ye old days when
continuation of life liberty and happiness de-
pended on gunfire.
State's. Bights Vanish.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. )
The prohibition amendment put away State's
rights personal liberty and local self-government
with Jeffersonian democracy in a steel-lined vault
in the Ametican political cemetery. It set up
centralized government by bureaucracy. .
When men who voted fpr nationwide constitu-
tional prohibition protest against eicroachments
on State local government and personal liberty
by centralized government by bureaucracy( name
of these fundamental American principles it is to
laugh "there ain't no such thing."
The approval of three-fourths of the States
of these amendments will mark the final accom-
plishment of a revolution which will cast all
State's rights into the junk pile
Early Morning Observations
By George M. Bailey. .
The Atlanta Constitution is kicking because
it was four days in1 receiving a letter from New
Orleans. We have no sympathy with audi criti-
cism. Why did not Editor Howell take the even-
ing train out of Atlanta and go to New Orleans
in person and attend to the business in question
if he was in such a hurry? He could have saved
forty-eight hours that way and refrained from
criticising our most profitably conducted post-
office department.
L'ncle Sam now and then interns some enemy
spy or plotter who ought to be interred.
Some highbrow of Boston is mentioned as the
great "Arthurian authority of the country." Well
hatever that is the government's attention
ought to be called to this man. He might prove
a valuable assistant to Director General McAdoo
or the chief of staff of the armv. A little
Arthurian literature injected into our industrial
or transportational problems oucht to helD
ihtily.
Another thing how in the mischief is a fellow
to save coal when he hasn't any poal to save?
From the number of men who declare they
nre going to wear old clothes while the war lasts
i! looks to us as if there will be great crops of
candidates this year and in 19.10. Some of our
usually well attired friends are already beginning
to look shabby enough to run for the legislature
or justice of the peace.
If ail the country's potential energy were in
action well Texas alone would raise $2000.-
00.000 worth of agricultural products.
It is simply out of the question for' a man to
be brth popular and rich but from the expres
sion of quiet satisfaction a rich man's counte-
nance wears when he orders a sirloin steak we
t.ike it Chat he nunages to exist quite comfort-
ably without the clamor of popular adulation
1 inking in his ears.
It looks very much to us as if about half the
economic theories prevalent in this country come
out of some poorly organized lunatic asylum.
I'at O'Kerfe is to be appointed United States
marshal it is said as one of the president's
"persona!" appointments. Of course if the presi-
dent looks at the matter in that way. but if
Pat were on the supreme court bench he would
be thinking of retiring at this time of life.
We concede that some lies are being told about
Germany but it is Germany's fault. When we
break in to learn the facts we'll tell the straight
I 1!.
Now they are starting a war on cider in the
North. Mown with the apple! Destroy the
trees r.wit and branch ! Some old gink in Con-
nection' drank a little too much cider that was
.: little too hard and kissed his cook by mistake.
And for tl'at we must all reform.
Whenever you say "I believe there will be
an early peace" and really believe it the kaiser
has yo-.ir mental altitude exactly where he
wants it.
Now here comes a lady who wants to vote
denouncing us as "a horrid woman hater." Nope.
we do not hate even the "horrid" women much
less the women who are not. Women have no
truer friend than yours truly as old John L.
Sullivan would sav.
Houston's new city directory will be out pretty
soon and just to make things pleasant all round.
we will say it will have as many names in it as.
Birmingham's. v '
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It you are a chairwarmer in the lobbies or a
strategist on the street corn -rs or a booster at
the l arbt ct s the congr ".Monal poliicinn? will
irritate you considerably this year. But if you
are putting in ten hours a day working you
won't worry much.
Sure Jason put in a good bunch of water-
melons. They will help to fill the souls of the
pcopli with optimism and sweetness as well as
the stomachs with food.
Some of the democratic congressmen are say-
ing that Colonel Roosevelt's visit to Washington
hefps the president. In that case it helps the
country and we suppose it will be improper to
land on the C donel for what he does.
If you think that by seven days of steady com
pression you can squeeze a little juice out of
your old dollar and a half go to it. Our advice
is pay that poll tax today. .
Very likely Mr. Gompers would be still better
pleased if the working time were reduced to two
hours a day. the work to be performed free and
the laborers to le paid 2 an hour for the twenty-
two hours thev didn't work.
Now that Bill Stone has set the thing off
we suppose the senatorial Adam's apples will
jump up and down furiously while the old boys
snarl and snort and all for what ?
Armour & Co. claim that during last year they
made 2.21 tents on each dollar of sales. That is
not very much. We suppose that very few of
the retailers make more than 18 to 20 cents on
each dollar of meat sales.
The Montgomery Advertiser says there ought
to be a hogpen for every parlor in Alabama. As
Captain Cuttle would say "the bearings of this
observation lays in the application on it."
We suppose much of the sAitiment for doing
away with the States is due to the circumstance
that some of the States have really very lit-
tle excuse for existence. But surely Texas is
not one of them.
If Mr. Hoover will name one eggless day a
week and the consumers will make the other six
days eggless for alwjut a month there will b
some very sick cold storage hogs in the United
States.
Mai Snake a New One.
(Ilawstone Pa. Cor. Philadelphia Record.)
A mad snake scare has seized the town
of
Richfield as a result of the biting of John Watt'i
dog by a rattler December 9. The dog sho'ws
almost all th? symptoms of a developing case of
rabies. The bite has become very sore swollen
and painful.
Snakes have never before been so restless in
these parts as this December and owing to the
biting of Watt's dog Mic natives are catching all
they can find roaming at large and are confining
them for observation to determine whether they
have hydrophobia.
Henry Baird foreman at the Hawke quarry
caught an eleven-foot black racer the other day
and is keeping him in an abandoned whisky bar-
rel. If he acts queerly Henry will chop off the
head arid send it to the anatomical laboratories
for analysis.
'The Cat'a Out of the Bag.
(From Cappers' Weekly.)
' The identity of the residuary legatee has been
disclosed. His name is McAdoo; he is secretary
of the treasury the president's son-in-law and
he comes from a pivotal State. 1
To Neutrals '
By Dr. Prank Crano.'
Listen neutrals. I
You Holland; you Denmark; -you Norway
and Sweden who art next door to the house
where the supreme assassin of history is mur-
dering the father or driving him away 'in a
slavery more brutal than' any African outrage
raping the mother mutilating the boys and carry-
ing the little girls away into captivity helping
himself to all the food in the place robbing it
of all its tools and metals wherewith to forge
swords for himself and stripping the chest of its
money.
Don't you hear their shrieks? Can you aleep
on and dine and go about your business with
these blood-curdling sounds in your ears?
Of course you want to be neutral You say it
is none of your quarrel. But you are mistaken.
At tirst it may not have seemed to be your
war. But tt is now. For it is a war not upon
this State or that but upon humanity.
And listen Spain and you. South American
republics! Is it nothing to you all ye that
pass by ? . .
The imperial pirate knows no favorities. He
has torpedoed the ships of Scandinavia. He has
impressed Dutchmen into slavery in his gun
works. He has smitten Spain in her maritime
trade. And many a South American vessel has
been checked off on his books as "spurlos ver-
senkt." He is shooting up the world.
He is the drunken cowboy bad man of the
earth.
Do you think you will escape if he is victor
ious.' Do you imagine be loves you more than
little Belgium?.
We appeal not to your rulers and diplomats
not even to your merchants and bankets but to
your people to the laborers the multitude.
You have your labor unions aiming to relieve
the unitist conditions of vour workers. What
about the workiftg class of Belgium beaten with
whips cowed with revolvers reduced to pitiable
slavery ?
If Germany is successful have you any rea-
son to suppose she wilt be any tenderer with you
than she has been with the Belgians?
Come on in !
We tried to keep out of it ourselves but
could not.
Even Japan and China have lined up. Have
you less feeling of humanity than Orientals?
tCopysight 1918 by Frank Crane.)
THAT DALLAS MEETING.
Pros and antis met on common ground at Dal-
las Saturday when they gathered to" indorse Gov
ernor Hobby for re-election to the office of gov-
ernor and to "hold up the hands of President
Wilson and the successful prosecution of the
war." To center on the man who has been
"tried out" in the governor's chair who has
shown his devotion to the cause and his accord
with the purpose of the nation was the sense of
ihe gathering. Gonzales Inquirer.
The meeting also indicated that patriotism
will he one of the leading plunks in gubernato
rial platforms this year especially so of Mr.
Hobby. Both pro and anti forgot their past dif-
ferences for the time in the broader and deeper
current of national pride and patriotism. Mr.
Holibv was hailed as a man eminently able to co
operate with President Wilson and as one thor-
oughly in sympathy with the administration. Win
the war is to be one of the paramount issues in
the campaign and it is advocated that this is no
time to change governors. CU-burne Revim.
That was a notable gathering at Dallas last
Saturday when democrats without reference to
views entertained upon prohibition met in con
ference to indorse the candidacy of William P.
Hobby for governor of Texas. The true signifi-
cance of the meeting is found in the fact that
men on hoth sides the vexatious question who
have heretofore lieen almost at daggers points
fraternized and harmonizerl and agreed that pro-
hibitionStatewide prohibition perhaps nation-
wide prohibition lay just around the corner and
there was no further need of democrats remain-
ing in hostile camps longer and all will admit
when 'he campaign is shorn of that one issue
Mr. Hobby must stand as the logical man to elect
governor of the State a! this time. And he will
be because he is making good and the people
arc behind him. Dcnison Herald.
University Takes the Lead.
(From Ihe Austin American.)
Since President Wilson delivered his famous
address and congress followed it with a declara-
tion of war last April the University of Texas
has taken the leadership among all colleges of
Texas in war work.
More men went from the university to the
service than from all the other educational in-
stitutions of the State combined. University stu-
dents bought more Liberty Bonds have already
bought more thrift stamps and subscribed more
to the Young Men's Christian Association war
fund and the Red Cross than the student bodies
of any of the other schools of Texas.
The largest and best ground school the train-
ing of aviators for government service was
started and is now conducted by the university in
conjunction with the national administration. In
every way the "State" university has stood far
above her educational competitors in taking an
active part in prosecuting the war.
And now comes a new field of work. It is
not one in which the university is the pioneer
or the leader but it is one in which the univer-
sfly
y can roon become the leader. The adjutant
general of the army has authoriied the establish
ment at tlv university of a unit of the reserve
officers' -training corps.
Onr Secret Service.
(From the Harrisburg Telegraph.)
Score another to the credit of the United
States secret service. Publication of the corre-
spondence between Count von Bernstorff and for-
mer Premier Caillaox not only brands Caillaux
as the Benedict Arold of France but is another
startling revelation of the vast knowledge the
United States government has and has had of
the insidious plotting and treacherous methods of
the German military ring.
Just how rfiany more revelations of the kind
are to cohie probably nobody but President Wil-
son anil Secretary of State Lansing know but
if is certain that they will be- given to the pub-
lic at times calculated to do the most injury to
Germany and the most good to the allied cause.
Every time Germany assumes her favorite role
of the snowy lambkin the president lets loose
another shower of soot and the public sees her
for the very black stfeep she is. The effect is to
keep the enemy constantly in a state of "nerves"
and to discourage any more traitorous dealings.
Wolters' rand of Patriotism.
(From the Wichita Falls Times.)
Hon. Jacob F. Wolters of Houston is quoted
as saying at Dallas Saturday -that he would sup-
port 'all public officials for re-election from the
constable of his precinct to Senator Morris Shep-
pard who were standing behind President Wilson
and giving him unqualified support. Mr. Wolters'
patriotism is so broad and deep that it effaces
minor issues and personal prejudices snd prefer-
ences. Mr. Wolters showed the quality of his
patriotism when he went before the people of
German descent in Texas with whom he had
great influence at the beginning of the war with
their native land and by his appeal won them
to the support of our government. It was a duty
that none other could perform so well as Mr.
Wolters and be was quick to respond to the
call of duty. '
That's Kind That'll Get 'Em.
(fyom tht St. Louis Clobt-Democral.)
Tb senate committee will have a hard time
convincing Mr. Baker that he is not .brilliant
success as a war conductor. -
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' .From th Waoo TlmooHorafd.
If y have doohto aa to ours beingto quote
John C. Calhouo -a Union of State aad awt of
individuals" look at the flag.
Each alar on the flag represents a State.
As each new State has entered a star has
been added; until today Jtkers are forty-eight
star' representing the forty-eight aatlcau which
make up the Unioa on the American flag.
"Each State retains its sovereignty freedom
and independence and every power jurisdiction
and. right which is not by this confederation
expressly delegated to the United States in con-
gress assembled."
So read the original compact and k has fcever
been changed.
It is our right to alter amend or abolish our
form of government but let's not say as some
are saying that the States are mere oomps in
the road at least not until after we hare made
the necessary order for their removal.
Let's be as considerate of the Stat: as we
would be of our lodge or local church;' we
wouldn't wipe either lodge or church out of
existence without due consideration and some
son of ceremony.
When Malcolm R. Patterson was governor of
Tennessee he wrote: "Our fathers fought as
no soldiers did since war among tbe human race
began suffered at none others have suffered
died as none other have died since the annals of
men were first recorded. It was not for con-
quest pelf or power not to force their views or
institutions upon others but for the holy pur-
pose of preserving the rights of their States
and that sacred principle of self-government dear
to every Southern heart sprinkled with Southern
tears and baptized in the purest Southern Mood."
Mr. Patterson has changed his mind if cor-
rectly reported; he no longer believes in States
rights to the extent and in the dcerte be did
when governor of Tennessee and that's all right ;
we all change our minds occasionally and imm
quite frequently. There wouldn't be much prog
ress in mis worm 11 every one stubbornly stuck
to bis prejudices.
But we ought to call all the oarties to the
compact together and proceed in approved style
affording to any who might object the privilege
of withdrawing and setting up for themselves
as did the Southern States when Mr. lincoln
was shown to have been erected.
In the meantime whenever vou look at Old
Glory remember that the forty-eight stars are
emblematic of the forty-eight States which make
up tbe American Union.
Lest we forget that's all.
Austin "Goes Dry."
(From Ihe Austin American.)
Nothing very startling has followed the pro-
hibition election of Monday.
There has been some surprise some regret on
the part of the losers and considerable celebra-
tion by the winners.
But the old town still looks about the same
and we have not been informed of any violent
outburst of indignation from the losing faction.
Some of the antis are not entirely satisfied wjfh
'he methods ascribed to their opponents but it
is also true that some of the pros were not satis-
fied with the methods ascribed to their opponents
last November.
The general sentiment among antis seems to
be: "If everything was straight let 'er go." To
which .the pros have replied while still contend-
ing that there were irregularities in November
that this time "everything was straight."
The contest of the November election will con-
tinue to be heard in the district court but pub-
lic interest in it will drop to tero. Because if
no irregularities are proved Austin still will be
"dry" and if irregularities are proved Austin will
not be any "drier." So far as the city is con-
cerned neither side has anything to win.
Our pro friends have insisted that nothing but
the banishment of the saloons was needed to
make Austin a perfect city while our anti friends
have as firmly declared Austin wa already ::s
near to being a perfect city as'any city could be.
From which we deduce that this is a great
old town a town worth living in and working
for and loving however our "family" discussions
at the polls may turn out.
Somebody Start Something;.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)
If the United States is ever to get a unified
system of roadways for use in peace and war
somebody must start the movement toward plan-
ning and constructing them. The need for such
i system of roads is obvious enough to any mili-
tary or business observer of the present pressing
transportation requirements of the nation and
those in prospect. Any citizen undertaking an
extended automobile trip east or west across the
continent can bear valuable testintony to the im-
portance such a system would immediately as-
sume to the traveling and shipping public in
peace or in war times. But conversation unoffr-
cinl discussions the efforts of well intended
strategists and mapmakcrs will not suffice to pro-
duce results in this matter. There must be ac-
tion by men of both vision and experience in
business affair. " It is safe to say that auto-
mobile men of prominence practically without
exception recognise the need for and approve the
wisdom of moving to provide a great American
highway system: not as a help to developing yet
more the so-called pleasure automobile business;
but as a vital essential to the full and proper
development of the aulo truck as a workable.
really serviceable adjunct to the inadequate
L freight transportation systems of the country.
Their combined urge at this psychological period
in national attairs might be effective to bring
about a co-operation of Federal and State au
thorities in laying out and starting construction
-of a highway system worthy ot the nation.
Speaking; of Deliberation.-
(From the Nttv York Twits.)
The Mississippi legislature has bathA itself in
glory. It has harvested the imperishable renown
of being the first State to ratify the prohibition
amendment 'and it has tteated its envious neigh-
bors to the spectacle of a great deliberative body
giving its consent to the alteration of ihe funda-
mental law only after pondered and long discus-
sion. In exactly fifteen minutes Mississippi de-
cided to part with her right to regulate or pre-
vent the manufacture and sale of liquor within
her borders. In exactly fifteen minutes she did
all in her power to fasten prohibition forever
upon unwilling as well as willing States.
Doubtless a really momentous question such
as an alteration in the fee for licensing dogs if
license of any kind is permitted in so stanch a
prohibition State would have given rise to days
of debate among the Jackson statesmen. A trifle
like a constitutional amendment can be put
through almost as quickly as a serious person
changes his clothes.
Judge Kittrell'i Appeal.
(From tht Nazasola Examintr-Rrvitu: )
Judge Norman G. Kittrell of Houston comes
out in a 'strong appeal to the people to elect
Governor Hobby without opposition. He says
that this is no time for politics and the usual run
of political disturbances. And tbe judge is right
about it The people have or should have plenty
to do to assist in winning this war without giv-
ing any of their attention to the office seekers.
Naod a Mlcrosoope to Find Him.
(Prom tht Charltston Niwt and Courier.)
The war . has increased the stature of some
men but Reed of Missouri grows smaller and
smaller.
SBS"
T. ft.'- Olvo 'Em an Ear Full.
(From tht Charleston Ntwt and Courier.)
If the aenate investigators enjoy listening to
criticisms Of the government they ought to put
Colonel Roosevelt on the stand.
Tampering With Triflei
' By JwN Morilm'op Lmvla. ' .
YOUR '4 ART
Somewhere in Franco somebody goes .
Across the war-torn' parapet ;
Somewhere in France fall rending blows
Somewhere trench walla aro red and wet :
Somewhere some boy's fast glazing eyes
Seek for tbe Banner of the Free 1
Somewhere in France some bravo boy dies 1
Gladly for such as you and me. j . 4
Somewhere in France i-oh soil made red ' f- "
By the world's best and bravest soasl-
Somewhere in France flags overhead
Amid the tumult of the gtins
Our hoys go up and over and
Go into battle for the f res ;
Then somewhere out in No-Man's-Land .'
Someone lies dead for you and me. '
Somewhere in France the daylight dies :
On war-torn slope and shattered tree
And darkness like a mantle lies
O'er war's red wreck and misery;
'And throbs across the purple gloam
A song and not a song of war
A song of cottage lights and home
Of all Our Boys are battling for.
Somewhere in France and far at sea
Somewhere engaging in the blue '
Our Boys are fighting for the free
Are offering their lives for you ;
They're .giving all they have to give
They're spending all that can be spent " '
Their right o love their right to live!
Are you behind Our President?
PATSY KILDAEE OUTLAW.
AT IMOGENE'S.
I lay in bed a long time at Bell's this morn- '
ing and wondered how my burglar and the man
who is a hundred years old and the wooded .
legger are getting along. Then Bell said "Are
you awake. Patsy?" I said "Yes." She said
"Would you mind pushing over about an inch
so I can have a little of the bed? I have been
lying on the ragged edge all nighti My being so
plump doesn't make it any more pleasant. I
most have a red mark from my shoulder to my
toes. J think it is time to draw the line." I
said. "Give me a pencil and show me where to
draw it." She "said "What on earth are you
talking about?" I said "You told me to draw
the line." Then she laughed and hit me with a
pillow and then she went to the bathroom for
her bath. I got up and had a rassle with Rowdy
and when she came out of the bathroom I went
in and washed my face and hands all by them-
selves. After breakfast Rowdy and I rambled. We
went to Imogene's house and her mother was
fooling around the roses in the tfird. I said
"Good morning. Where is Immy ?" She smiled
and said "Good morning1. She is in bed where
you ought to be at this early hour. I said
"All right. I will go and get into the bed with
her." For I wanted Immy a mother to know
that I always try to do what I ought to do. She
laughed and called a young woman with white
lace on her head to show me tip to Miss Imo-
gene's room and she 'did it and Rowdy too.
Then she went away and Immy's room is certain
ly beautiful. It is all blue and the chairs are
blue and the bed is blue and the walls and doors
are blue and the bed cover is blue and Immy's
hair is red. If I had it I would paint it bluo
or paint the room red one or the other.
Immv woke up and blinked and then she rub
bed her eyes and looked at Rowdy snd me and
rubbed her eyes again and blinked them again
and then she held them shut for a while but wo
were still there when she opened them. I said
"Hello. Immf!" She clapped her hands and
said "Bully!" I said "What are you going to
study today?" She said "Not a thing. I do
not study Saturdays and you can stay all day
and we'll have a picnic." So I did and we did. -The
girl with the lace on her head put a table
out under a tree in the yard and put a white
cloth on it and put two chairs out and some bread
and jam and chicken legs fried in white gravy
and some mashed potatoes and tlen an auto
came and stopped and a man got out and she
ran to meet him and he kissed her and came and
shook hands with me and patted Rowdy on tbe
head and said to me "Art you going to have a
good time?" I said "Yes sir."' He said "That
is all right. I always spank kids who do not
have a good time here." Then he laughed which
niade me think that maybe he thought that was a
joke. He would have a hot time spanking me
with Rowdy around.
Then Immy poured cream out of a teapot and
we had breakfast while the grownups had it in-
side the house and then the girl took away the
dishes and brought some ice cream and that was
good. Then I climbed up the big tree and sang
a song which I made up as I went along about
the good time I was having and Immy's father
came out and listened and clapped his hands and
said to Immy's mother "By George that is bet-
ter than any of this free verse I have ever
heard. If the people who write that stuff could
express themselves like this little girl they would '
make a hit." Then we played dolls and had
lunch and then played in the attic and then had
supper and her father told us stories and he is a
good story teller.
After we had a bath this evening we wenf to
the room where we are to sleep together and
Rowdy and I kneeled and prayed "Dear mother
which art in heaven here we are at Immy's and
we have certainly had one more good time and
1 am so full of eats that I Would be ashamed to
look a pig in the face. Ask God to bless Immy '
and her father and mother and you and my
father. Immy has been so good to me today
that I am almost Joo happy to sleep. I have at
last got some one to play with and just the
one I would rather have. I am certainly lucky.
Amen."
(Copyright by Judd Mortimer Lewis.)
"Bloated Bondholders."
(Thomas F. Logan in Leslie's.)
"Bloated bondholders" was a term of reproach
utilized by demagogues to array class against
clasp. That distinction has been wiped out by.
the government's campaigns to finance the fight
against the Huns. Treasury department records
showg that Liberty Bonds are now widely dis-
tributed throughout the States where owners of
securities formerly were regarded ss special
proteges of satan. This new class of investors
has discovered that it is essy to acquire bonds
by making small monthly payments. The next
step in their lesson will come when 'they clip
their coupons and observe how easy it is to 'mahe
every dollar they save earn 4 cents a year. Tho
result will be the creatron of a tremendous class
of investors who will not relinquish the saving
habit when the government stops issuing bonds.
The French became a nation of bondholders
after the Franco-Prussian war. The habit they
develoned in resDonse to the needs of their Wv
ernment survived the
penoa 01 recupeisii'in
from the cost of that war. When France's needs
were suonlied. thev turned to other standard se
curities. That is what the government's tman- -cial
experts predict' will happen in the United
States. There will be fewer American scetirl-
ties held abroad in the future and the money
formerly sent out. of the country each year in tho
form of interest and dividend payments will go ;
into tne pocxeis 01 inc new ijre ui nmivu
bondholders.
Girl ' Wanted.
(Ad in Winlo'n Oafo Ltadtr.) '
I am looking for a girl between 13 and 4j '
years of age to Veep house forme. I want M '
girl who knows how to keep house and cook aJ ..
I am tired of living by myself for Cod said "It
was not ."good for man to live- alone but will .1
make I helpmate for him." . So if yon want to '
do God't will let me know at one. 5 H
Gtoaoi SnATtoit. .t
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