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Sunday Morning, August 14, 1921.
Some of The Citizen's Ambitions
For Asheville and Western
North Carolina:
1. A hard-surfaced highway" from Ashe
llle to the county-aeat of eVery county ad.
Joining Buncombe.
t. Hard-surfaced highways connecting
the capitals of every mountain county.
I. ' More tourist hotels In this whole
irountoln region.
4. Eatabllshment of additional Sum
mer Camp Schoola.
5. Increased use of the forests for re
creation and sport.
. A Clty-Wannlng Commlaaion for
Asheville and a central park with a sys
tem of smaller parka.
7. A college in Aahevillo built upon
foundations broad enough to support a
great . university. The Summer School
for Teachers haa demonatrated that It
can be done.
-' t A Lively Ghost
"What an Interesting story Colonel George
f Harvey' could write for the expired Harvey's
I ; Weekly, relating the wrath and chagrin that
j I burned In his soul 'during1 Friday's session
1 I of the Supreme Council! Before most of
F 1 1 '
' J tha .world's greatest leaders, assembled to
'ill aettla "the most dangerous and difficult
i'.f question in European polities," the ghost of
: I the- League of Nations suddenly appeared
if clothed In the authority of 48 nations. The
f organization over which Ambassador Har-
vejTjhAd delivered obituary In London was
I acknowledge as the only Jurisdiction com-
J V? petent to consider a problem which has
within it the possibilities of another world
s war the Silesian boundary question.
I i ' '
The Colonel's presence In the .ouncli
wa already embarraaslng enough to one of
his opinions. Had he not declared before
i '?
th Pilgrims that his' country could have
no dealings, directly or not, with the league
or any of its committees? In effect, he had
asserted his faith that America waa ready
to' recognise that peace can only bo made
in the same old way, through the open or
secret trading of wurld powers in council
assembled. And here he waa. hearing the
returns on an election ordered by the League
ot' Nations.
' i Ixd Curzon smiled, for ho Is also a
scoffer; but Harvey must have been too
overcome even to sneer. Here was a piece
cJ diplomatic reporting that neither he nor
Washington dreamed of when the Colonel
'as ordered to attend the Council meeting.
MaWhnl Forh. laughed aloud; he too Is a
doubter, but he knows when to retreat nnd
when to; attack. And most of the world
JaUghs today at the strange lessons which
tii&orr Is teaching Ambassador Harvey.
The decision leaves the Harding Adoon-
istratlon once more in awkward position 1
ward world reconstruction. American In-
! f
; ( tersts in European problems, disguised ,s
i it - '
! I domestic relation to European markets, w.is
I ,lhjannounrcd reason for Harvey's 1 1-1 1 to
j 5 Paris. That Interest, under whate ver iiniu
Is not destroyed by transfer of the case to
I the Council of the la,-., but in that tt ib
t . unal this country t:ll chooses to bar ltselt
j I from voice or vote.
tinder a Democratic Administration .Sen
r.ter. Lodge packed the Senate against Wil
M policies, but now Lodge complains that
President Harding in allowing the House to
uupnek for it.
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There's no satisfying these convivi.il;
ft ffitHnrTn'1y''1 rnffififUn 'tH.tr nw'i""Tn
lc 'to be had in London, and over here
shed bitter tear because of the front they!
THE
The Marion Connection
The hearing before the Corporation
Commission on Friday demonstrated beyond
a doubt, that a. morning oonnactlou between
Asheville and Rutherfordton and points in
iUitherford and 'Cleveland Counties at Mar
ion 1m riot only ramt desirable, but almost a
necessity if the business and aortal interests
f these two nearby section aru to be con
sidered. There was unanimous opinion on the
part of everyone who participated in the
discussion representing tin- different sections
and also on the part of the railroad offlclala
ard the members of the Corporation Com
mission that then' should be a morning con
nection at .Marion for points 011 the South
ern Hallway between Marion and Blacks- j
lung, S. C. There was absolutely no dissent j
whatever on that proposition. The only
question under debute between the repre-
senta live ot the two sections was us to ,
wneinci' or not llie leaving time ol the tram, muM ,,ay off this sum. charge it to pi-ullt
from Marion to Biackabuig should lie '' ,inl b,x in the Uum-hintr of a lug commu
(hanged. nily enterprise and prepare tor the thud
It was contended by those opposing tins'! series 01 1 oik i ris. The Festival of 1020 was
change that such would break the 1 .mnec
Uohm north and south at that point.
The silggesioii hich c ame. 1 coin Judge.
' 11, and Major Roberta, approved by rep
resentatives from Rutherford ton and Shelby,
that this difficulty could be molded by
causing Train No. S6j out of AshcwlJe to j
leave here at an earlier hour, seemed (o be
the only solution of the difficulty, and whiili
apparently met with the approbation of all
present, ag far as the railway officials were
concerned, the company would not object to
that change If the people desired it. He
suggested that there might be opposition to
this change from those residing from Hick
ory east,
One thing is certain: this connection at
.Marion must be made one way or the other,1
and the proposed change to Make No. 3ti
leave Asheville at about 4 o'clock seems to
be the only solution which would satisfy all
parlies and should It be done, a Pullman,
which would be opened and could be entered
after 10 o'clock at night would be attached.
This schedule would give the Marlon con
nection and would give the people of Ruth
erford and Cleveland Counties an early
morning train from Asheville and furnish
them with such mall facilities as they have
never had before. It would be of benefit to
people, traveling from Asheville to Salisbury
and Charlotte, and especially to the latter
place, because a connection would then be
made at Salisbury with No. 37 which is due
to arrive at Charlotte at about 10 a. m.
Under this schedule No. 36 would pugg
.Morganton at 6 o'clock, Hickory at 7, New-
ton at 7:25 and StateevtUe at about 8 o'clock,
and the train would arrivo in Salisbury
shortly after 9 o'clock In time to connect
with train No. 37 for Charlotte, which would
enable paaaengers who desired to go to
Charlotte from points on the Western road
to arrive there nearly three hours earlier
than under the present schedule by liarber
Junctiun, and the only inconvenience that
could come from such a change would be a
lay-over in Salisbury for people who de
Blred to travel from points on the Western
road to places between Salisbury and
Greensboro.
U Is aasumod, of course, that No. 22 out
of Asheville will continue to leave Ashe
ville will continuo to leave Asheville at 8:10
in the morning and this Is the train princi
pally traveled liom polnta on the Western
road to Winston-Salem, Greensboro and
Raleigh. '
The Citizen has taken a deep interest in
this Marlon connection, On account of the
present schedule Its subscribers in Rutlirtj
ford County. Cleveland County and at points
in McDowell County, south of Mai Ion are
greatly delayed m receiving the daily Citi
zen. Under the present schedule it is en
abled to reach Ruthcrfordton an hour and
a half after the other State papers, nne of
which is printed D.2 miles from Ruther
fordton and the other 2 SO miles from Ruth
crfordton, W hen as The Cit,zcn , ((1y
allies f 1 out Rutin rb.rdtoii.
lie I 1 Mil II Occol v a 111
nitict, d iu tit
for next
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1 ititei est 111 , nit 1 st , ,1 ; , j h is -a 0 position ov u , ,
e' P Kitm o ).,,,,, rrspcuise Asheville p ,,,,lK, .
1 lii'-n.ls and sulc i thcis ! also a uurei i - 1 , 1
uppieu ( lhB epportumtv offered to them in (,.,
I ales the (IHIiinH,,, under whnh the South, j ,.,,.t.
" " o, 1 the Corporation . I
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1 shoil while I lour time vvril spent.
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WORK
A IVi'm-iiiniit i.'.iot 1 "
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! '' ' :.' r. .01 to make plan..
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SUNDAY CITIZEN, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14..I92I.
i ihad demonstrated that Ash-;
vllle could -realize it ambition of becoming j
a, center of music for southeastern United
States. ,.i
The artistic .excellence of the concerts
warrants the confidence of the people of this
city and of the South in the Judgment of
Wade R. Brown and his associates. Who
select the artists and arrange the programa.
The local chorus made AsiicvilleianM proud,
especially by ita work Friday evening in
"Faust." Ah tor the orchestra and Its con-
ductor, the people will never forget the
fact that Dr. Rich has shared the spirit of
those most vitally interested In the Festival,
He and his men gave the audience ail that
conscientiousness and artistic skill of high
order could give.
Hut that is not all the atnry of the Music
Festival in 1111:1. There is u Ueflt it, as was
expected. ' though it Is smaller than the
signs indicated ten days ago. Asheville
financially profitable, conditions country
wide caused this year's eiui to show a
monetary loss, August, luiz, should sec'
normalcy so thoroughly restored that the
third Festival will pay Its own way and
provide a surplus in cash besides ri( li stores
of good
music nnd advertising invaluable.
A politb ian that the packers ran buy up
IS merely another species of cattle that the
packers are used to buying on the hoof.
The Road Toward Industrial Peace
The industrial conference proposed by
James V, Harrett, new President of the
North Carolina Federation ot Labor, should
j n(lVfi the support of the manufacturers, and
'here is no reason to doubt that it will ap
peal to them as It muat to the public in
general.
The assembling of such a conference
would be recognition by employers and em
ployes that most of the problems of Indus-
try are those which affect, both parties to
the age-long controversy, and that they can
not be settled rightly or satisfactorily except
through common counsel. A discussion of
these questions by representatives of labor,
owners and the public would bring indus
try in the State nearer to the realization
that labor and capital are partners and that
industrial conflict means destruction of
1 wealth and is a formidable obstacle to the
promotion of the general welfare.
The seeming failure of the industrial
conference called by President Wilson should
not be allowed to discredit the idea under-
( lying ''these negotiations between workers
and employers. The value of such meetings
of mindfl cannot always be summed up in
the record of agreements reached and writ
ten down in the minutes of the proceedings.
Every exchange of views, every effort to give
and t&k must inevitably make it easier for
a succeeding conference to weak out a basis
of understanding and co-operation.
Every time we hear of a motorcyclist get-'
ting hurt we stop, before weeping, to in
quire whether he had his cut-out open.
Launching the Chimes Movement
Wiw (ieneral Shank right -in saying ro
ceatly at service held at Hoboken on the
return of the bodies of American soldiers
killed 111 France? There are many seem
ingly satisfactory explanations for what ap
pears to be forgetfulness, but Asheville has
a practical opportunity now to show tha
it does remember nnd is determined to
commemorate appropriately what Ameri
can manhood did in the .ire, it V, M, tne
support given to Comrade W-rk will ,.,.,
more to the question th.i,, professions.
With 1 he proceeds' from ('omi-ido , rk
entertainments, Asheville v.u- Mothers will
'a-tihch the movement not only for a Kmc-
nrcinoriai , Ituncomtie s ;, edict's,
endeavor to have this plan ad. .pi.
States. The idea is one of 1
are we, set ,,n earth for'' Saw to toil,
eek to leave thy tending of the vines
or all th" heat ,' the day, till it dc lines.
And Death's mild curfew shall from work
assail.
Ood did anoint thee with His odorous oil.
To wrestle, not to reign; and He assigns
All thy tears over, like pure crystallines,
Or younger fellow-workers of the pni)
To wear fi r amulets. So others shall
Take loU'iiip, labour, to then- heart and
hand.
but will
......oi,, ,,,, inning , v,,r d. v lae l 1,,, 1,
, In ei ,
, ,il Coils grace fructify through thee to all.
Tin ,ci: ilowei. w ith a brimming cup-may
stand.
And whan- m deir-drop with another near.
Sf JZABHTK A&OWNINO.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
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, L1RF.RTY AND DANCING.
Editor of The Citizen; ' '
Many of the people of North Carolina
(Ashevlllci not excluded) are rightly, proud
of "that great-hearted and large-minded
American gentleman Theodore Roosevelt."
and it is but natural thatkwe have literary
critics and philosophers who are eager ;u
eulogize him and o champion the broad-,
minded i.olines for whl.'h he Kave the mo,t
vigorous enthusiasm that a man of niv
genius could give, People of Asheville love
Koosew It beiausn he was a h- i.d-mlnded
man v ho beliew d t.'iat the Individual aalti
zen has th right to led official who have
the h'i he,: .1 . of conviction to make and en
force l ,v.h w hich are reasonable a id wh'.'-h
they o,i..r for 1 he best interest of the
local!!, 1- . ..hole. Put erhapa the gc-r.tlo-mari
v, b v. n tc the article on daniyin ap
pearing in The Citiwn on August 11. did not
pay so mm h consideration to llie latter part
of the Muotfition wlib h 1m used from Kdose-
velt's "Oliver t'romell." That
oiiotntlon I
rends as follous: 'On the other hand
large number of good citizens, in their Irri
tation at any Interference with what they
feel to be legitimate pastimes, welcome the
grossest corruption and misrule rather than
submit to what they , all 'Puritanism'." Is
not tills statement true in the article aho.e
mentioned" I.ct us analyze, the article and
see uh.it arc its real merits.
Haw
. b
pimuutiiiiiers of AahevHk" gone
l-w ' r iven thern by law to en
ii uliuh they consider good for
of the citizens ,,f Asheville ,n,.
-n' No one (tin prove that tin
nailing such an inilinance a..
ait on 1 1 11., I,
the well;,,'.
I hei r ( hi Id r
havc. In
the gcnilcuiun criticises, were they not true
to the "voice (,f the people" which was heard
at a public gathering and wherif else can
the voice i,' the people be better heard than
at a iiulili-t gat'lici-inc? Nor can any citi
zen of Asheville say that the commissioners
have been tyrannical In enacting a law which
i.i saturated uit.li the ''(i'rossest corruption
and niisrufe." Hut such would the gentle
man hal e us hi lieve. Does not such an
accusation clearly show that we have critics
coming from a foreign city to teach the law
makers of Asheville their mistake in en
acting an ordinance which l.s Incomparable
to the' act of the city of New York ugalnst
the shimmying on Coney Island Shall
Asheville have a disrlpllna rian wb o has not
learned 10 submit to discipline'.' Shall such
h pedagogue teach the "naughty" school
boys of Asheville an unlearned lesson of
discipline" x ,et not Asheville have taken
awa.v from her long established principle
of being' an original citv!
Yes, citizens of Asheville love Roosevelt.
They love nun because he was a patriot.
Hut where is the patriotism for Asheville in
belittling her Hoard of Trade secretary with
all the irony of an Anthony of a civilization
antedating-the Dark Ages'.'
This gentleman takes the position mat the
1 ' ninmissioners of Asheville have resorted to
U lannicai legislation which 1ms "restricted
Ihc 'liberties uf American citizenship, and
taken away from honest men and women a
proper means of livelihood." It is not neces
sary 10 go into the psycho-physiological ef
fect of the passion for dancing further than
to iiuote what the American l'nivcr.sal Cv-
1 lopcdia. says concerning dancing and its'
popularity: "it is among .savage nations that
the passion for dancing is most strongly
manifested." Still men who claim to be
of the society of American nrogres.sivene.ss
1 advocate th public dance as a "proper
means of livelihood." Let us resort to sav
age methods of obtaining gracefulness:
The other contention is that the comnus
sionlVs have interfered "with the liberties
of American citizenship." Such is a lung
ridden principle of every "Fourth of July"
oration, out of which, In this case, if care
fully considered, fails to stand a glorious
test. Do the citizens of Asheville really an
truly feel that in the close of the public
dance halls they have been robbed of the
"inalienable lights" given them by the Dec
laration of Independe nce, simply through an
act of the City Commissioners ? What rights
have been taken away from the Individual
citizens of Asheville. or from their children?
Has the privilege of dancing been taken
away" Have the parlors of residnts of Ashe
ville been c dosed to that which would help
to pa as a happy, innocent, pleasurable
evening'".' Have the people of Asheville
who ivluli to do so, been prohibited from
I chiv ing to Ilendersonville to the public dance
halls there? In ahort, has there been any
abridgement of the rights of the Individual
American citizen? On the other hand, is
not the attempt to make the people of
Asheville believe that they have been robbed
by a "naughty" bunch of school boy com
missioners an absurdity which makes a
mountains of a mole hill? Is it not an en
deavor to stress the Idea that certain indi
vidual.s, not .aring hou small the minority,
have the right to a public dance hall for
the benefit of themselves and their paro
chial families?
How 1, 'in law making bodies legislate ef
fectually and Justly except from the mani
festations of the will of the people ami of
a particular locality" In such the commis
sioners have been A-l. Tlu-v have he. nil
the voice- of the le.-ople and they hlive leg.s
laiid according to their sense ol duij to
the will of the people and tor the best in
terests of the peopl, no a whole.
W'-1 1 has the enemy of a dispel pre'aohor
1 hristiam il "Tornado Pete." ;i man tilled
with th.- powei of the "pushing mighty
wind" of Pentecost, and a man who has
turned thousands to t ii t - belief in the. truth
of lb" word of the true dispel of Christ
uu, ecu these thi' coin missiooevs ,,t ai,o.
vilie ,s it p, visible- that a second Paul has1
".' "Ur l'l' "" Ire of an Kphcsian J
sillllll 10 erillilse the ts, it hM Kaihcsi-
an who have embraced the words of Chris-j
dainty .' Shall sin h a critic try to persecute j
the man who has "turned the world upside
down" !e cause he has secured 1 he passngp
M' an ordiiaini'i which proposes to safeguard j
the p. ople of Asheville froin'lhe curse of
' 1 1 " din'" . hnracterizeil by the ancient!
tests "f Ashtoreth"
citizens of Asln v Ille ,
i in, npablc ,, , . , l,n
is some would have
i tors of the cjtv urn
" not men and
the power of
' believe. The
ot inconsistent
" '" 'eel ecu to lis
ten on bended knees to the words ot a once
professional gambler and do his bidding'
en of Asheville are not m,illvc,l,itr,M ,i,,,
it submissively tun id a shower of Insults
men wives. Illothios siaterii mill
daughters without heroic efforta to resist
su,uV ",ut citizens of Asheville are men
wh- still stand as they have stood during
the pact few weeks, film in the belief that
"Toitiaeb. Pep." was not sent as an insult
ing critic but as a herald to warn people
against tint which can lead to hitter insult
nnd shamerul degradation! The opinions of
such n. en cannot Justifiably he criticised as
being unintelligent. The opinions of such
men have' been made into a law by.legUda
tnrs who are not mere puppets catering to
the. desires of some foreign element of so
tiety; legislators who are strong enough to
form opinions on truths which they hear,
and not afraid to put these trdths into prac
tice! They are legislators who have the
eonvi''
The people of Asheville are men and
women w ho recognize the rights of fill Amor-
lean citizens, but who recognize that they
too "are American citizens. They are men
and women who do all they c.an conscien
tiously for the pleasure of those who become
their guests, but they are not willing to sac-
rifice the morality or character of their
children.. a BRIGGS.
f'est Ashevllle, Aug. 12, 1921. .
(Two errors of fact in this letter should
be noted. The author of the communica
tion to which it is an answer is rector, of
an Asheville church, and not a "foreigner
an Mi- BriggS assumes, dotiiiuij, urn n
later " letter cannoi " .7'"'"
to mean that tne romuiw.. .
guilty of "the grossest corruption and mis
rule"' the quotation irom nouBevon
not be applied In two diametrically opposed
ways.--Editor.)
savoyard"views
MISFORTUNE, NOTIISTAKE
There is a heap of history for it, practi
cally all of it writ by his enemies the fact
that Hannibal, the Carthagenian, was the
mightiest military genius the human family
ever produced. He was also a consummate
political afiminisirauor, aim on v.uu.u
destioicd Rome and radically changed all
the en lunation the. world has ever enjoyed
since his time, but that he was thwarted by
jealous and envious public men at Carthage
who were prompted to their treason by a
conscious inferiority. No paper survives that
Hannibal wrote. Few words that he spoke
h,,e come down to us. We have account
only of his deeds.' One anecdote however, Is
01. -served ol his career., Near the close of
his lit'
undone
a wrei
when in banishment and utterly
his country destroyed and himself
one Fromio insisted on and per-
d in
u as
aching him the art of war.
Polonius of a man.
Fro-
inn
That anecdote inevitably occurs to me
w hen I hear in talk r read in print criti
cisms of Woodrow Wilson and his Adminis
tration ol the recierai tiovcrnmeni oy sc.ai.eo
men who are excruciate in the
conscious-
ness of their own littleness. There never !
I lived a man more a slave to duty as lie (aw
his duty than Woodrow Wilson, -mere nevei
was before and never will be again a great
man, more contemptuous of sham than
Woodrow Wilson. There never was. a great
man so cruelly misunderstood by the peo
ple he served. It is a fashion to say that
Mr. Wilson made mistakes. A etter view
or it would be expressed in the term mis
fortune. According to my opinion the one
and only mistake Wilson made was his ad
vocacy of Woman Suffrage. In all our na
tional life to be. the circumstance that the
woman has a vote will never change the
political complexion of either house of Con-
, . , . , 1. . x 1: ,1
giess, or dcrermine me result 01 a presiueu
1
tlal electiun
Nobody knew better than Woodrow Wil
son that had he accepted the proposal of
Theodore Roosevelt to be put In command
of the flower of the American army and
sent to France to fight, a thrill of Joy would
have swept over the country and mpre of
the resultant applause would have been his
than fell to Roosevelt, himself. But the
scheme of Roosevelt was nothing In the
world edher than flagrant favoritism. His
division was to be composed of the clotted
cream of American valor, of the pick and
choice of American 'capacity for war. His
division could not have been made thus su
perior to other divisions without visiting in
jury on those other divisions. The proposal
was to assign to the Roosevelt division the
most competent military men In the army.
Then it followed that the other divisions
would have been officered by inferior men,
and thus impaired in discipline and reduc-.
ed prowess. It was a grand piece of favor
itism. Not even Edward ill, King ot Eng
land was su indulgent to his heroic son the
Black Prince as Roosevelt asked the Presi
dent to be to him. The scheme was de
structive of all that equality in citizenship
we boast so loudly and that we violate so
constantly.
Nobody on earth was more desirous for
the defeat of Germany than Roosevelt, and
there is no doubt that the man would have
gladly died the death of Claverhouse In that
quarrel that convulsed the world; but it is
plain to all observing men that the over
throw of Germany was a minor factor of
this Roosevelt scheme, the major factor be
ing the glory that Roosevelt hoped to gain
on the field of battle. I repeat that the
thing was a piece of rank favoritism. That
is why Wilson rejected it. knowing as he
did that his action would be misconstrued
and that it would doom him to unpopu
larity. The thing that contributed most to swell
the vote of Harding in 1920 was the draft.
That was not a mistake of Wilson's; it was
his misfortune. The draft made it possible
I to land 2,000,000 American soldiers in
I I-Veinon bv til id -til I mm Pf 1 I1 1 H T-Tari t .'mm.
try depend on volunteers we. would not
have had over half a million there by that
time, and that would have been a force ut
terly insufficient to bring the war t a eon-
' elusion that autumn. The draft, above all
other things, Wilson forced Congress to en
act, brought the President most condemna
tion: It should have rewarded him with
most apt inuse,
Fvcn in impartial history Truth Is con
spicuous on the scaffold. It Is OJt possible
that in a life after death there will be an
infallible, coUrt that will literally read our
hearts ? Woodrow Wilson believes so, and
his every act as a public man was to win
the decision of that court.
Would all men and women were
that:
Washington, August 8.
'ik:
DAILY REMINDERS
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.
1S3ii-
-Sir Walter Besant, celebrated EVi"
author, horn. Tiled June 9, 1801.
1S42 One of t"he first successful American
locomotives was patented by Matthias
W. Baldwin of Philadelphia.
1X48 Congress enacted a territorial govern
ment for Oregon.
isfil Fourteen thousand liyes lost in an
earthquake In southern Italy.
1S66 Sensation produced at the . National
t'nion convention in Philadelphia hy
the entrance of the delegates from
Massachusetts and South Carolina
arm in arm.
1 & 73 Cornerstone laid for the Mt. Lookout
observatory In Cincinnati.
18S: A conference of the European powers
agreed to the International protection
of the the Suez canal.
1899 Attempted assassination of Maltre La
bor! at Rennes, France.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Delegation of American Congressmen
reached Pekln.
The seventh Olymplo games were formally
inaugurated at Antwerp.
TODAY'S BIRTHDATS.
Henry Clews. New York banker and noted
authority on finance, born m England, t
years ago today.
Daniel C. Jackling, a celebrated mining
copper mines in aiizoiiui inn ew mip
i born in Bates county, .vio., years go io-
, day. '
Ernest Thompson tseion, American naiur-
alltt, author and lecturer, born In England,
61 years ago today.
ALLY OR ENEMY? :
By JAMES HAY, Jr.
Consider the case of the woman, an un
usually efficient clerk, who had a pronounc
ed case of "pen paralysis." Unable to work
she devoted all her time to being doctored
She tried allopathy, homeopathy and hydro
pathy. She experimented with electricity,
massage, dietetics and dentistry. She sub-;
mined to the treatment of every separa'-a ;
ai m-muscle from her brachialis anticus to ;
her pronator quadratus. And all to no pur- 1
pose Bolus and bandage, compress and
cordial, 'nothing gave her relft-f. She was ,
"incurable," confronted with the necessity
of dragging out her days in Idleness.
There was, too, the experience-'of an able
young journalist who was doing high-class
"hack work" for another writer. Every
forenoon at-11 o'clock he developed a vio
lent headache which lasted two hours. He
suffered agonies with it, and could get no
relief. None of the remedies touched Mi
"chronic" pains in, the head. The dootcm
said there waa no apparent reason for his
having them. , He took it philosophically
and every day lost two hours ot working
time.
As the third example, there was the bank
president who awoke every morning with
the feeling that he was absolutely unequal
to the responsibilities of his position. Ho
thought he wars going insane. There was a
"tightness" or a "cloudiness In his head.
He was convinced that, by saying the Wron
thing or losing site of vital facts, he won.d
some dav ruin the bank. This feeling, all
of it, passed off by half-past nine o'clock
"Regularly every day, but. white u lasten, u
tortured him beyond all telling. Tne pny
siclnns he consulted said it was "all Imagi
nation." and told him to "forget it!"
All three of these people were paying fear
ful tribute to the fact that the human mind
never forgets. They had made of their
mln()s enPmies instead of allies. They wero
victims of the careless, easy-going theory
that the best way to escape worry is to
"forget" the thing that worries. They were
learning at terrific cost that we suffer most,
not from the unpleasant things we remem
ber, but from the unpleasant things we
have "forgotten" In cowardly manner.
I The woman had "pen paralyBis," not be
cause there was the sligntest tning tne mat
ter with the muscle nerves or bones of
her arm and hand, but because, for a par
ticularly costly reason, she disliked work nft
In an office. She had forced herself to "for
get" the Incident that made office work a
humiliation to her, to "forget" even that
she disliked work, because, after all, she
had to work in order to live. But, because,
In her heart she wanted to get out of work
more f-.i.'she wanted anything else in thn
world, oer subconscious mind, that part ot
her mind into which she had driven the
"forgotten" unpleasantness, went to work
for her. It gave her a valid ?xcuse for
quitting work. It paralyzed her workim?
arm.
Unanswerable proof of this is found In
the fact that, when a psychologist by skil
ful examination helped her to ""member
once the "forgotten" humiliating incident
and its unpleasant accompaniments, she real
ized at once that Bhe had unconsciously hyp
notized herself Into the dlsabllity-and im
mediately the 'paralysis" disappeared, never
to recur. , . .. .
In similar fashion the yourfe Journalist
had forced himself to "forget" that he felt
humiliated at having to work for another
Instead of writing his own ideas. Vv hen ho
. rmtmrnmpnj noHlLlon. . " '-
his head-
a..ni V n INL111IC leiciicu .-, .
aches left htm. . He Is now an important
part of the government of a Southern City,
at a salary of $15,000 a year.
As for the banker, he distrusted his own
powers and resourcefulness because, at ona
time confronted with a problem in his pri
vate life. Instead of solving It courageously
and sensibly, he had fled from it through
the sample process of "forgetting" It; thua
convicting himself of inefficiency.
But the human mind never forgets. Noth-,
ing that goes Into It is ever lost. When you
unHemtjind that fact, you are In a position
! to make all your mental machinery your
ally and not your enemy, a source m
strength to you and not a case of poisoned
arrows to be fired at you in the dark.
It Is not enough to "forget" a disagree
able fact or situation. You never tc'get it;
the best you do is to submerge it in tl; un
conscious, or subconscious, part of your
mind, where It prowls about, restless and
unsatsfied, seeking an outlet, a means jf ex
pressing itself. And as It ts, of ttsel." ln
ful, it will express itself, make Itself Known
In painful fashion. It will hurt you either
mentalh or physically. It may give you a
feelins of self-distrust and lack of confi
dence, or it-may give you chronic "nuural
gia" or a pain in your stonmjh. But of this
you may be certain: :n feme way It will
have its revenge.
Now how are you to prevent that sort or
thing? By settling your problems Instead
of "forgetting" them. Nothing that you
forget will hurt you unless you forget It un
worthily. If you say to yourself, "I ought
to do this, but I won't, because it is less
trouble to let things drift and to forget, ha
unpleasantness" If you say that, you are
a coward running from a responsibility that
will revisit you in painful and weakening
form, a form that may have milder, or worse
results than those cited in this article, but
-a-oie. .ni-A tn cut down vour efficiency,
T,,,. ui,m'i .,0ii aettied and life's tat
tles fought to a decision keep your mind
clean, fresh and strong, a source of unfail
ing and Irresistible strength. The. man Who
In truth has "nothing, to worry about'', la
unbeatable; and the way to have nothing to
worry about is to attack, never to run from,
the worry as soon as it presents lself.
The Scissors Route
BIBLE IS AGAIN OFFERED AS TEXT.
BOOK. '
(Raleigh Times.)
The State Federation of Labor, In annual
session at High Point, has picked up a fal
len cause where it was dropped some years
since by the Junior Order of American Me
chanic; the Federation would put the Bible
In the public schools s a textbook.
The prediction is made that the move
ment will not get so fir as the Junior Order
took it; but if so., it. will meet defeat at the
same hands as before. And the non-churchmen
did not do it; the proposition was met
and fticed down by prominent churchmen,
Should the Bible be taught? The better
word, perhapst were learned; hut the teach
lng is for the home and the pulpit and hard
ly for the State. Church and State Should
be kept separate, and the Junior Order ltselt
preaches this constantly. What sort of ex
amination would teachers be given in the
Bible and members of what church or
churches would examine them? .
The Scriptures have been somewhat ne
glected for scenarios, for Whi Bangs and
for Snappy Stories; but If between church
and parent the child cannot be brought Into
contact with the Bible, the State were stack-'
lng up against a hopeless task in attempt
ing It.
nhn Calsworthy, one of the most success
ful present day English novelists ana piay
wrlghts, born t years , ago oaay, . ,
John .Tspb Aster, whose father' perished
in the Titanio disaster., born In Nw Tor
City, years sto today