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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUABY 18, 1920.
THE STATESMAN
PAGE SIX
More Strikes
By Frederic J. Harkin.
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geon.
Within ten days after Congress had submitted
ment.
Bailey’s Address
HIGHWAY BUILDERS
A
CONVENTION OPENS
“believe in the rule of the people.”
From the day the
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
ed by the firm.
19,570 silver dollars coined.
Q. How many words did Shakes-
the
A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT
By Harriot Rauell
deadly poisonous reptiles. The
bites
reaches about 20,000.
Q. What Presidents of the United
son.
son.
Q. In what kind of containers should by C. H. Kendall, assistant State high
mobilised
cked for shipment by par- way engineer.
8.
Q. How can I obtain the words of i
“The American' s Creed' as approved
My
the States, and not by the Federal Government. • •
By Associnted Press.
AIR TANK EXPLODES,
emies."
The University of Texas win 1
may
States
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DROWN IN ACCIDENTS
OFF THE COAST OF CUBI
control
gression
FRIDAY IN RESPECT
TO DR. EDWIN W. FA
' Relation of State Highway Depart
ment to State and Federal Projects
WASHINGTON, Feb. It—Five er
listed men were drowned in the sini
ing of a naval water barge yesterda
off the Cuban roast, the Navy Depart
ment was advised today, and two other
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seldom exceeds 2,500 words, while that
of an educated person often contains
less than 800 words.
troubles they want more children and
still more.
The only way to decide which plan
is best is to look at the examples of-
fered us by countries who do practice
and the lessons learned then and the
beautiful things one sees have a great
influence in the formation of the child-
ish character and In the ultimate de-
development of the grownup."
And the clever man is right
Every little child should have a gar-
cel post done i
long as the sei
insured.
Nearly 100 Delegate* Registe
During First Morning of
Three-day Session.
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I may be mistaken in thinking that a majority of our people
would have voted againat National Prohibition, if they had been
offered the opportunity; but I am not mistaken in saying that a
majority of our people did vote against Woman Suffrage, only
one month before our Legislature ratified the Federal Amend-
her food resources.
And—when the men of Holland were
Knowing the out of doors is so es-
sential to the development of much
that is beautiful In life.
it is to be exalted above commercial
and industrial life--this garden work--
den his truly own.
Some of the most beautiful lessons
Little Benny’s
Notebook
BY LEE PAPE.
QipplinRhumos
46 Walt Mssoni*(f3
Bailey’s arraignment of Wilson on the woman suffrage issue is
particularly striking. He says in part:
On June 29, 1*14. A delegation of suffragists waited o*
the President to solicit his help in passing the Federal Suffragist
Amendment, and thia is what he said to them:
“It la say convietion that thia is a matter for settlement by
Q. Is there a premium on silver dol-
lars coined in 1804? W. K.
A. Catalogues of dealers in old eoins
show that silver dollars coined in 1804
are exceedingly rare, and are valued at
that amendment. Governor Hobby convened our Legislature in
extraordinary session, just as he bad done when the Prohibition
Amendment was submitted, and that Legislature voted to ratify
the Federal Amendment, in palpable defiance of the people’s will,
as expressed at an election held less than forty days bfore that
time. • • • ,
Among all of the politicians in this country, the very last
who could have been expected to defy the clearly expressed will
of the people were these “Progressive Democrats”; for their prin-
elpal stock in trade has been a vehement protestation that they
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OUT FOR MORE MONEY
Q. What quantity of gotds
tourist bring into the United
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should certainly be sorry
could exceed in politeness."
from Contractor's Viewpoint am’ Sug
Kent ions for Betterments," by G. <
Hawley. *
“Discussion of Road Materials’*; le
, by L. W. Kemp, manager sales depart
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By Ameoclated Pess
PARIS, Texas, Feb. 1«- Dick Kerr,
who pitchea the Chicago Americans to
two yictories in the world's series last
tall. has returnea hin contract for 1920
unsigned. It was learned today with a
damaad for nor* money.
By Asociatea Press.
WASHINGTON, F»b. U —A masting
ot the hands of the nrteen railroad
employee organizations has been called
for tonight to conmider the conference
above the mechanics of progress.
In the out of doors we get nearer to
the sky and in reaching toward the
•ky wo come in closer touch with the
fine and beautiful things of life.
A little child, naturally. It seems,
gets closer to nature than the grownup
person does.
His Utt Is ears seem attuned to catch
earth’s loveliest sights, his eyes to ses
the beauties of nature
There seems an influence in the out
of doors life—ths life of fragrant sod
and golden sunlight—that goes straight
Into the heart of a child. Into the being
of youth. Into the development of the
man.
Give the child a garden.
Not because of what the child will
do for the gorden, but because of what
the garden will do for the child in
spiritual, mental and physical develop
ment. •
Fact* cannot be disputed and it is a fact that the President has J mu saamended willThave on the recent
never withdrawn the assertions quoted by Bailey. He ha* argued for azzeement brtnonrRrpadhnta.Winan
raff rage without mentioning his former utterances or their subject- for" wnge inereame2
The convincing power of simple truth pervades the entire speech.
Bailey not only accuses the “progressives”—he convicts them. He
resorts to no tricks of “spellbinding” and makes no appeal to preju-
dice, but he not only accuses the “progressives”—he conviets them.
His address is one of the ablest that has been made in our time and
there is that to thrill every lover of free government in his closing
words:
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vocabulary of
war time measure-
one or two children. The poor mothers his first appointment in the Unitec
Q. Dia the ancients believe that an
amethyst would prevent drunkenness?
' M. C.
A. There was a strong belief among
the ancients, particularly the Greeks,
up in any manner, so
'ttder does not have it
of deaths from snake
I have been asked to quit my work and make the race for count
clerk. They say a man at princely race is needed for that august place:
a man of virtue unalloyed, a man of weaknesses devoid; a gent of great
end soaring gifts in whose renown there ar* no rifts; 'tis such a paragon
they need, and so they come to me and plead. But when I see the wear
jays who are in office all their days, who sometimes die but don't resign
I say, “No public enap in mine!" When I turn out a hand made song
the smiling neighbors come along, and say, “Old scout, you're doing well!
Your latest anthem rung the bell!” The man who has a private task get
all the praises he could ask, if he gets down and doe* hi* best, at duty’:
eloquent behest. But when he finds himself in charge of public office
small or large, he cannot do his work so well that voters won’t rear ui
and yell, as voters evermore have schreeched, and say he ought to be im
peacbed. I get a little word of praise when I produce some ringing lays
but if they made me county clerk, the populace would roast my work.
Copyright by George Matthew Adams.
report on the pending railroad bill with
a view to determinine what effect the
butter be pac
cel post? . I
educated person
supporters. Take Holland, for in-
stance. Holland is a shining example
j of a birth control country. For forty-
I five years public birth control clinics
about 1200. In that year there were
The State convention of Highwa
Builders of Texas opened its first ses
sion Wednesday moring at the Dris
kill Hotel with Rollin J. Windrow o
the State Highway Commission presid
ing. Approximately 100 delegates fron
they were found to be 95 per cent ef-
ficient. as against our 60 per cent. All
this points out. say the birth control
enthusiasts, that it is better to con-
centrate upon the quality of our citi-
sens than upon the quantity. We all
must admit that Holland is a very
pleasant and highly respectable little
country. They dont" have birth con-
"If these ‘Progressive Democrat*’ will agree to join us in re-
sisting all future attempts to deprive this State of its rights, I will
agree never again to mention the prohibition question,” says Bailey.
But the ‘progressives’ will not do that. As a matter of fact, some of j _
them are already actively supporting the Federalization of our edu-lot-ufe are learned there,
cational system and other measures which Bailey did not have time to
mention.
TELEPHONES
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Entered as second-claza matteruatshezrostatcneactaseun Tesasr undenthemc
thusiasts claim, and seem to have rea-
son on their side. the death rate in
Holland la the lowest in the world, for.
strange a it may seem, a high birth
rate and a high infant and mother
mortality rate go hand in hand. Also
Holland was able to support herself
A. The post office department says Federal Aid Projects —Present Cond
that it will not insure butter for ship- : tions as to Co-operation and Sugges
ment by parcel post unless it is put ; tions for Betterments," by A. D. Duel
up in tin boxes, or some other form of county engineer. Hunt county.
tin container. Butter may be sent pur- "State.and Federal Aid Projee
N. 0. LONGSHOREMEN I KILLING ONE MAN AND
VOTE TO END STRIKE INJURING FOUR MEN
peace use in his works? M. B.
A. Shakespeare had a vocabulary of
more than 25.000 words. The average
"Every little child in the world
should have a garden spot of his very
own—a little place, no matter how
small, where the green and growing
things of the out of door world mav
be planted, tended and studied," sald
the clever man.
"You see," he. continued. “it is the
time of life when a human being comes
into closest touch with nature and the
wonderful miracles of the out of doors.
By Associated Press.
RANGER, Texas, Feb. 11.—William
K. Carhisie, a gauger for the Prairie
Pipe Une was killed and three other
men Injured when an air tank used for
starting the gas engines at th pumping
station of the company, four miles west
of Ranger, exploded late yesterday.
Carlisle was dismembered. One of
the injured, Ed Gerner, was hurled
through the roof of the pumping sta-
tion. and his body is covered with
minute pieces of steel embedded by the
explosion. He will recover.
Here, again, is the logic of facta. And the same may be said of
Bailey’s discussion of the action of the Texas Legislature in ratify-
ing the suffrage amendment after the people of this State had re-
fused to adopt a State amendment providing equal suffrage. He
says:
have been maintained there with the ... ------- -- —--. —------
consent of the government. As a di . snakes, such as the cobra, and other
rect result, the family limitation en-ianth —-----------hmnumhe"
Highway Construction."
....... .. .... ___ Engineer Fowler was followed b
8 tries'did'not belong totheMasonic , several speakers who are listed below:
Order? A. M. M. 'Relation of Federal Bureau of Fur
A. They were: Presidents Jeffer- 1 lic Roads to State end Federal A
Van Buren, Lincoln, Grant. Hayes, Projects," by J. D. Fauntleroy. distrie
...... engineer U. S. Bureau of Public Road
to pay the debts of the firm. Lincoln
paid off every dollars of debt contract-
He opposes Federal prohibition “because it alter*, to a most
radical extent, the relations between the general Government and the.
States of this Union.” That this is true cannot be controverted. He
refutes in simple and convincing language the palpably unsound ar-
gument that because the Federal amendment was adopted according
to the term* of the Constitution it does not impair the rights of the
States, and shows that the "progressives" have but begun, in passing
the amendment, to reduce the States to the condition of provinces.1
After Federal prohibition has come Federal suffrage and Federal
child labor legislation.
twenty years hence, and
Q. Is Major General Leonard Wood a
west Point man? R. D.
A. He is not. He was graduated
from the Harvard Medical School, and
ra. 5:
an.ss anaidentnes pudtd Pherein. AU nghte at publication or speclai
atpatches Nerein are “1*0 reserved___________ ■ ---------
"I feel,” she said recentiy. "It 1. 80
important to the welfare of thim coun-
try where hoards or immigrant women
are bearins chitaren, unwanted and un-
fit for life according to our .tandarda
that I have been willing to go to jail
for volcing my opinton."
Before she took up thia work she
waa a trained nurse in New York,
working among the two and three-
room tenement home, on the lower
east aide, where tamilles of a dozen
children were living In misery, and
alao workins in the uptown homes of
the wealthy, where there were a dozen
or more room* and rarely more than
of serlous thinkers who advocate just
the reverse. As a sure for all our
during the war without outside help-----------------. -------- . ,
because her population did not exceed Cleveland. Harrison, Fillmore, and Wil-
Q. Was Lincoln ever a merchant?
G. D. H.
A. After he was defeated for the
State Legislature in Illinois, Lincoln
became a partner in a dry-goods and
grocery store. at New Salem, Illinois.
The concern failed, and Lincoln’s part-
ner fled, leaving the Great Emancipator
ment of the people, by the people. for
the people; whose just powers are de-
rived fromthe.consent,o theusovern:i fost their >!»«• rin the capsizing of
ed: a demosra y in “ pubucuivA 1 motor dory from the V. M. S Erole
sovereizn nation oimany.son “in last Sunday at Harwich, Engfana.
sparable; established upon those prin- ' "Nosdeton ethesinkme were Kpe
cipien of freedom, equality, justice and but.Admiral Knapp said a court of in
humanity, for which American patriots qulry would Investigate the sinking <
sacrificed their lives and fortunes. l , the dory
therefore believe It is my duty to my *′*
country to love it; to support its con- inIvrDerV n cy ner
ztatuihnrtoabenatatlaginsenipent UNIVERSITY TO CLOSE
passion being for local self-government and the determination
by the great communities into which this nation I* organized of
their own policies and nfe, I must state it very frankly."
Again, on June «. 1915, another delegation of suffragists
waited on the President, beseeching bi* help for the Federal
Suffrage Amendment, and thia was hl* answer to them:
'■I am tied to a conviction whieh I have had all my life, that
change* of this sort ought to be brought State by State. It la
a deeply matured convietion on my part, and, therefore, I would
be without excuse to my own constitutional principles if I lent
support to this very important movement for an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States."
I am aot la the confidence of the President, and I am, there-
fore, unable to tell you what became at his "passion for local
seir-government" and the "conviction to which be had been tied
all of hi* Ufa": but I am able to tell you that in loaa than three
year* after his repeated asseveration that he would be recreant
to his "constitutional principles if he lent support to this im-
portant movement," he was advocating the Federal amendment
with all the seal of a new convert. He ban never, in any public
document or address, so far as I know, withdrawn his assertion
that the question of suttrage was one for each State to settle
for iteeK; Mr ha* he, so far a* I know, ever attempted to recon-
cile what ha said on that question with his advocacy of the
amendment. He leaves us to aasume that he urged the adoption
of that amendment despite th* fact that it transterrea to the Fed-
eral Government a power which he had said properly belongs
to th* States.
By Amociatea Press.
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 1*.— Coast-
wise longshoremen on strike here for
the past ten day voted today to return
to work at the former wage scale and
continue under existing conditions
pending a promised reconsideration of
their problems by the national adjust-
ment commission.
Freight handlers will vote on the
question of returning late today.
cONFERENCE OF BROTHERHOOD
LEADER* IS CALLED
all over the State registered during th
morning for the convention, which wil
continue through Saturday.
One of the chief speakers of th
morning was Governor William I
Hobby. who welcomed the delegate
to Austin and spoke on the pressin
need of better highways.
The first session of the delegates wa
opened at 2 o“tock with a prayer b
Rev. W. A. Hamlett, pastor of th
First BapuatChurch. Dean T. V. Taj
lor of the University of Texas schot
of Engineering was scheduled, to de
liver the avdrass of welcome but I
hin absence tis was done by Governo
l Hobby. W. B. Bizzell, president of J
. . . ! A M. College, who was also listed fo
Q. Is England still technically at an address. was absent R. M Hul
war with Germany? T. F. a. | bard, chairman of the State Highwa
A. England ceased ofticially. to be commission, addressed the delegate
at war with Germany on January 1% on the work of the commission and th
last,nwhen a.roxal order was Issued purpose of better highways. His ad
terminating the war. I dress concluded the program for th
Q. Are there many deaths in India’mornins.. convon
'annually as the resulis of snake bites? terathe. 100 n.reces ahortlv nvor
India is the land Of venomous tioncrosumwithsczesiopowhier“‘J2e‛u
s number! State Highway Commission as th
annually first speaker. His subject was FL
ture Federal and State Participation I
Democratic Party was first organized, the law to us ha* been
that the will of the people shall prevail. In the long and honor-
able record of our party, Democrats who believe as I do have
never overruled the will of the people as these "Progressives"
have done on both the Prohibition and the Woman Suffrage
Amendments. Hereafter, when there men tell us that they "be-
lieve in the rule of the people,” we will know what they mean;
and we will know that what they mean is that they believe in
the rule of the people when the people will rule to please them.
now or
Some men are asking why I continue to discuss prohibition,
if It is no longer an issue; and my answer la that I am not dis-
cussing prohibition—I am arraigning these men for having trans-
gressed a vital principle of Democracy; and if the anti-prohibi-
donists had passed an amendment depriving the States of their
power to prohibit the manutacture and sale of liquors. I would
have sala no less against that than I hare said against the o le
which the prohibitionists have passed. It is not a question of
prohibition: it is a question of State Rights, with me.
free of import and tariff duties? J. a. F.
A. The Department of Commerce
saye that a traveler who ba* been
abroad is allowed to bring into the
country, free of any duty, good* for
hl* own use, to the value of $100. This
is exclusive of wearing apparel that
has been purehaaed abroad, and has
boon worn.
AmETE-ad-panMdl"2-252 M,t0
themselves, by begging her to help States Army was as a assistant sur
them limit their families so that the
matter. "The President ha* been right on every public question,”
■ays Bailey, "and he has been wrong on every publie question, be-
cause he has been on both sides of every public question.”
Equally strong is the former Senator’s indietment of the meth-
ods employed to secure the success of the two Federal amendments
by their proponents.
Selecting a time (says Bailey) when the minds of our people
were engrossed with another question, and when more than four
million voters—the very flower of our young men— were away
from their homes, they submitted th* Prohibition Amendment,
and then deliberately sought to intimidate those who were op-
posed to it by calling it "a war measure.” Admonishing all
others that we should not engage in any contest among our-
selves while our country was engaged in a conflict with a for-
eign nation, they did not heed their own admonition. While
urging their opponent* to desist from all controversial activity,
they redoubled their own efforts.
by President Wilson? J. O. H.
A. Here it is: "I believe in the
United State* of America, as a govern-
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they have decided on birth control for
humane reasons. Every book on the
subject which Mra. Sanger recom:
mended to them is being translated
Into Japanese.
Margaret Hanger la the last person
one would expect to find leading a re-
form. She is the mother of three
sturdy children herself, but in spite of
this, and her years of strenuous work,
■he has the delicacy and prettiness of
a wild flower. And she is emphat-
ically not a wild-eyed radical. It 1.
to avert the revolution, to which some
people say the present economic con-
dition la leading, that she advocates the
birth strike However misguided her
opponents may feel her seal to be, no
one who has talked with her can fall
to realise that her patriotism and love
of humanity are so strong that she is
ready to make any sacrifice for them.
birth control, and compare them with
those who do not, say the birth control ’
war of ng-
To conquer the armies at a foreign enemy Is only half of the
patriot's duty, for it will profit us little to repel the Invaders and
then fall a victim to our own Government’s injustice. The lib-
erty which is best worth fighting for. and the liberty which is
best worth dying for, is the liberty of every men to pursue his
own happiness in his own way, so long as ho does not inter-
fere with others in the exercise of that same right. To save
that liberty we must save this Republic; and to save this Repub-
lic we must save the principles on which it waa founded. If we
save them, they will save all things else; snd all things saved
shall bless our memory through the centuries to come, and keep
our children and our children's children free men forever and
forever more.
gladly corrected if calle* to the attention of the puUl.h.r.^________-
by‘canling the Circulation Mmmw ph°ae ***________ - . ■■ ------
Bailey’s speech at Gainesville defines hi* views so clearly that
there win'be n mistake about them and cuts the ground from under
those who have sought by innuendo to obscure the real issues in a
campaign which is actually of nation-wide importance.
On the question of prohibition Bailey says in part:
Some of my good friends ar* apprehensive that what I may
aay on thia question will be misunderstood. They fear that a
large number of people will overlook th. fact that I am de-
fending th* rights of these States, and think that I have come
as a few foolish and wicked one* are now saying—to defend the
liquor traffic; but even it I knew that my attitude would be
misunderstood by some good people, and misrepresented by
many bad people, that would not deter me from saying what I
believe ought to be said. If we have reached a time in our
political history when a man can not speak in defense of the
rights of these States without being suspected of "trying to bring
whisky back to Texas." then we have reached a time when the
discussion of any public question is a waste of time. But I have
more confidence in the intelligence of our people than to believe
that they can be misled by these self-serving politicians.
It is to be expected that men who are afraid to meet the
great issue which we have raised will seek to evade it, by pretend-
ing to think that prohibition in imperiled. It la expected that
the email men who are prohibitionists purely for office will con-
tinue to agitate the queation; because it brought them into prom-
inence, and it alone can keep them in power. It has been the
breath of their poutical nostrils, snd they must keep it alive, or
perish themselves.
children already born might be sup-
ported in decency, first gave her the
idea of teaching birth control. She
went abroad and studied it in England,
France, Spain and Holland, and came
back here to see what she could do
to help her country women. Such men
as H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Gil-
bert Murray and Havelock Ellis are
backing her. Once when she was ar-
rested they wrote a letter to Presi-
dent Wilson, which caused him to have
the case against her dismissed. It is
hard to imagine such a delicate and
gentle lady as Mrs. Sanger being ar-
rested.
“But all the policemen don’t dislike
me," she said recently, with a quaint
smile. “Look at this lovely bronze
vase the chief of police of Tokyo
broughe me as a ceremonial gift when
he came to get information for his
country."
The question of birth control is be-
ing discussed more and more freely,
but it is still unsettled. Are the wom-
en who have the right to vote also goz
ing to assume the right to voluntary
motherhood? Are mothers going to
demand proper living conditions and
sufficient food for their children, or
else refuse to have the children? Will
the stork really strike?
that the amethyst possessedl the prop- _ ___
erty of preventing drunkenness and I closed all day Friday out of respect i
some of those addicted to that habit Dr. Edwin w. Fay, whose death th
wore it on their persona Others be- [ curred Tuesday in Pittsburg. Pa., an
lieved that liquor drunk from a cup who will be buried In Austin on Frida
made of amethyst would not intoxicate.
GEORGETOWN MAN RECOVERS
a FROM SLEEPING SICKNES
teen Japanese officials have sought
Margaret Sanger to get the benefit
of her wide knowledge and experience
in the work of educating people in
the real meaning and advantages of
birth control as she sees them. They
say that the Japanese government
agrees that the overcrowded con-
dition of their country means birth
NEW YORK, Feb. IS.—Strikes and
rumors of strikes are so common these
days that we are fast accepting them
as a normal part of our national lire.
Daily newspaper announcements, that
the buttonmakers have walked out, or
that the cloak models are demanding a
better living wage, cause not one tre-
mor in the stout heart of the average
citizen of today. But one strike has
been called recently which is so un-
usual that it ought tb make even the
most hardened of us sit up and take
notice. This is a birth strike of five
years duration, advocated by Marga-
ret Sanger, head of the birth control
movement in this country.
The time was, and not so long ago
when the mention of birth control in
any gathering was followed by a scan-
dalized silence, and the future ostra-
cism of the rash and unconventional
mentioner. But now there is hardly a
debutante who can not quote glib sta-
tistics on the subject. Most of the big
periodicals, and many of the larger
newspapers, are discussing it openly
and unblushingly. Those of us who
believe that ignorance and silence have
never aided the solution of any vital
question of national welfare may well
be encouraged by this growth of this
broad-minded attitude. Whether we
are for or against the principles of
birth control the fair thing to do is
to allow both sides of the movement
to state their cases clearly and then
deside the matter for ourselves, as
American citizens, self-governing and
untrammeled by superstition, are pop-
ularly supposed to do.
The main reason for the growing in-
terest in birth control is not the sen-
timental one of saving the poor under-
nourished mothers of the slums from
lives of hardship and early graves, or
of preventing the birth of unwanted
children in already crowded families
where they will never have a fair
chance of surviving and developing
into anything but a burden to the
state. Rather it is a purely economic
reason of such obvious urgency that
even government officials in some
countries are beginning to consider it.
The late Lord Rhondda, formerly food
controller of Great Britain, says, “the
end of the unproductive five years of
the war found Europe with exhausted
credit, a shortage of food, and other
primary requirements ot life. All this
means industrial disorganization for
some years to come. It means hard-
ship and coupled with the food situa-
tion it means starvation. It means
want for a considerable portion of the
European population for a consider-
able part of the lifetime of the children
now being born. And these conditions
in Europe will inevitably have their
effect upon America. This world is
so closely knit together that no part
of it can suffer without bringing suf-
fering to the rest.
It is this situation which is respon-
sible for Margaret Sanger’s birth
strike. It seems the logical thing to
her. and to many other thinking peo-
ple, to try to feed, clothe and educate
the children already in the world, and
prepare them as best we can for their
huge task of paying for the war, rather
than to thrust hoards of new babes
into a world unable to feed them prop-
erly. Of course there is another group
Buttins.
Buttins are the parts of your clothes
that keep them frum coming off before
theyre took off and keep you from get-
ting dressed at mutch of a hurry as
wat you wunt to sumtimes, on account
of every usefill buttin having a buttin
hole across frum it, and if you get the
rong ones In the roong ones it has to
be did all over agen, unless you dont
mind going out that way, wich most
peeple do.
Some buttins art jest for looks, sutch
as the buttins on the end of your
sleeve, ony nobody hardly ever wunts
to look at them and wouldent get
mutch plezzure out of it if they did.
It is easier to unbuttln buttins than
wat it is to buttin them, but if they
are unbuttined to ambtiuious they are
libel to fly off frum the shock. The
most imbarrassing thing that could
happin would be if all your buttins
floo off at the same time wile you was
out taking a wawk or coming home
frum one.
You can wear buttins on eny part
of you you wunt to in a free country
exsept on your shoes, being sipposed
to be sissey, even if you dident pick
them out yourself.
Wen you suddinly miss a buttin off
of you enywares the best thing to do
is go and tell your mother and she will
take out a box full of all diffrent size
buttins and run one finger erround in
them till she sees one ixackly like it
and sew it on you wile you stand there
asking her if it is finished yet.
It is bad to use pins insted of but-
tins for 2 reasons, ferst, because they
are libel to stick you wen you dont
ixpeckt it and 2nd, because people
notice pins holding you together. but
buttins wood have no effeckt on them.
Mrs. Claude Smith of Austin w)
has been in Georgetown for the pa
few days with Mrs. W. T. Armstron
whose hueband has been a victim <
sleeping sickness, superinduced by e
attack of influensa. reports that M
Armstrong came out of the coma
which he had been for several day
yesterday afternoon. When he awok
he was hungry, and seemed to be 5
a normal condition.
He has an appetite, and is cheerf
and optimistic, it is said, and hopefi
of getting well.
“Relation of Counties to State or
tral clinics in Russia, and they don’t
have them in China, and they don’t A. , 4,
haventhem.i.Inaatticwinatqube Ab Uthewhihtenesttthe Pte
romemberodsthat “srmanyowassstronglanecdote •frue Polteness" told? G. R.
for biK tamilles. Her population in A it is tola about Presldent Jet-
creased ntteen, milions. in. thirty terson. While walking in the atreet
years, and the Pan-German dreams of one day, with a merchant, Jefferson e~I~I ■* c c-,
national expansion grew and waxed ' returned with an air of kindness, the SEVEN I S SAIl ORS
strong until Germany precipitated the . bow or a negro who passed. “How,"j—HVM-V •• —h-HVI
fearful World War. I said the merchant, "does your Excel- -----------
An instance worthy of notice is the I lency condescend to salute a slave?”
sudden interest which the Japanese । ro which remark Jefferson replied: “I
government is showing in birth con-.should certainly be sorry if a slave
trol. During the last six months flf-
; ment Texaco Co., and Ed L Denni
Texas Trap Rock Co.
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