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Houston Texas Sunday October 7 1917.
A SCANDALOUS JOKER.
The so-called S per cent war profits tax"
imposed by the war tax bill upon salaried
and professional men is designated as a
Joker. The exact na'ttro of this provision
Is not entirely cle.ir but we understand it
to mean that eertain professional and
salaried mon are p:t in the same category
as industry or b:iness and in addition to
the regular income tax. they must pay a war
profits tax tust as a munitions factory or
lacking ho".se must.
That oi course a double tolling of
salaries and professional incomes which are
not profits at all as the term is understood
in the business world any more than wares
are profits.
But that wasn't the main oker the des-
itieable and contemptible joker. The thins;
which ought to shame congress is the joker
that specifically exempted representatives
and senators from the operation of the tax.
A joker may be stupid and it may be
highly uojui-t but when a measure designed
to give an expression of the country's pa-
triotism exempts from its operations mem-
bers of congress it puts a stigma upon con-
gress that will naturally arouse the right-
eous indignation of the country.
This exemption did not creep into the bill
In the halls of congress. The country would
have been i romptly heard from if it had. It
was sli; ped in by the conference committer
and ratified by senate and house before it
was d.sov ered.
Tht re arc many senators and representa-
tives who would not tolerate the outrageous
principle i; embraces but there are senators
and repress ntatives so sordide so bereft of a
sense of propriety so wanting in patriotism
that they would unoiusningty lay upon ine
people of the country burdens which they are
keen to shirk themselves.
The Post is not surprised that a number
of members were indignant as soon as they
heard of it and at once announced their in-
tefition to have the bill corrected and made
fair to the country and decent to congress
Itself.
But mere correction is not enough. When
the Dec ember session begins congress should
take the proper steps to investigate and as-
certain exactly how that :oker and that ex-
emption came to be inserted and the men
who are responsible for it ought to be ex-
posed and disgraced as well as defeated at
the election next year.
Congress ought not to permit mercenaries
In the secrecy of a conference committee
room to legis!ae surreptitiously in any such
manner when their work serves to scandalize
the whole congress.
No congressman who votes w-ar taxes upon
the people and then takes unto himself im-
munity therefrom is fit to sit in a hog caucus
at the stockya-ds. and he ought to be driven
from public life at once.
A WAIL FROM BERLIN.
Strange to say the very first instance of
reprisal for Germany's air raids brings an
indienant outburst from Berlin and the lan-
guage is peculiarly interesting in view of
the many air raids upon English and French
towns:
' r wh.it rurrose the Frer.rh make 'hese
a"ucks on m Cermai -owns is r.o: c! -ar.
In Rr-:a;p :': r- arc n.t nr.'.itary -bj etives
an-.! the a.'a-'.ss cn Tucrir..-en and Baden-
Fid t car. r.'y be cT.-;dereJ itf on'cme of
a 1.
t-.ri it -itv fcr dcftructf.r.. The sana'oria
hospitals at Tuer-
-'itta;:t r..::r.-. r us se-. en-ly wounded
nt t n .
liver th- rr'-r. h :il r.rt dare to assert
that .-tck r. h-'-p;:al far behind the front
are of rr.i'itnry necessity.
The purpose of the raid is entirely clear.
It is to convince Germany that its own air
raids are brutal and intolerable. The pur-
pose is to reach the consciousness of the
Prussian militarists and it need not be
doubted that it will be reached.
Of course these attacks far behind the
front have no relation to military necessity
further than to convir.ee Germany that the
indiscriminate air ar?cks upon English
towns are of no military necessity and must
cease.
Of course there i- r.o defense in ethics for
these reprisals but the German war ofike
long ago threw a.-'de the- rules of war as the
world has known ard respected them in the
past. It has been with great reluctance that
the English anl the French have even con-
sidered reprisals but they have become con-
vinced that there is no way to reach the Ger-
man conscience save through a practical
demonstration of the unnecessity of bom
barding open towns from the air and no
doubt there will be other efforts to brirj-; ;
the German war office to a realization that !
warfare whose horror falls chiefly upon uon- j
combatants is not to be conducted save at j
the peril of the offender. j
The demand for these reprisals is human I
nature in England and France speaking out
after patience has ceased to be a virtue.
Both have sufficed many such attacks dur-
ing the past three years. They have pro-
tested against such barbarity they have
threatened but all in vain.
The German war office in its monstrous j t --ato c.inr.g plant here which will cost" about
egoism assumed that it had a potent weapon l$'Koc '"" ;rladrir'. wh a number of others
i I'C'-restcl m the move have been devoting con-
Of frightfulness and a monopoly of it and it ; siderahie time recently to securing subscriptions
Dm nosed to crush the spirit of England and ; f"r h" nndenakine and the announcement has
France. There is no such monopoly and
ha been no such monopoly.
Germany will stop those air raids and the
slaughter of noncombatams or ascertain that
a vaster force will scourge her own terri-
tory.' It it a pity that there li no "other way
to convince Germany. The rules of war
might even yet be invoked to terminate that
form of warfare if Germany Is amenable to
reason.
It is evident enough however that Ger-
manv will confine her air operations to mill-
tary efforts or pay a frightful penalty and
I ray with interest.
I Lloyd George has so declared and that
i rugged old liriton Is a man of his word.
SOUTH TEXAS LONG STAPLE.
The sale of a lot of long staple cotton In
Houston for "2 12 cents a pound la of par-
ticular interest to every cotton grower in
South Texas. The Fost has many times
called attention to the profits which may be
secured by farmers in this section from long
staple and It is gratifying to observe that
this year a greater number of farmers have
been marketing the better cotton than ever
before.
This lot of cotton to which attention is
now called was grown on the farm of ". P.
Herbert of Eldrldge. The seed was prob-
ably of a long staple variety originally pro-
duced in Mississippi. The staple Is upwards
of 1 1-4 inches long and the cotton of good
color.
Ginned under ordinary conditions this cot-
ton would have secured a premium in the
Houston market; but the lot under consid
eration was given particular attention in the
gin owned by the grower on his farm. The
great. trouble with long Btaple In Texas has
been that the gins have never taen the
necessary trouble to Insure best results with
long staple. They have ginned that variety
at the same speed they used on common cot-
ton and they have not tried to keep all
short staple away from the better variety
The consequence has been that the Texas
grower of long staple seldom secures the
price to which he would be entitled under
proper ginning conditions. This lot of long
staple is said to have been most beautifully
ginned under slow running conditions and In
machinery from which all short lint had been
removed.
The premium of 25 per cent which it
brought in the market is surely worth the
extra attention paid to the cotton by tlio
farmer and the ginner.
LAND VALUES AND GOOD ROADS.
Reports from Mississippi show that lands
in that State have risen in value from lrt0
to l."i per cent since the immediate sections
where they lie have entered upon an era of
good roads building.
The same thing is true in every other
Ptato where a program of road building has
teen entered upon in earnest.
But if the only effect of road building were
to raise the price of land many a farmer
would object strongly to the appropriation
of public money for that purpose. He would
see in higher land values only higher taxes
and he would balk.
The wise farmer knows that good roads
mean less expense of conducting his busi-
ness more products gotten to market less
time wasted going to and from town less
wear and tear on horses and vehicles the
sale of his products when prices are right
and greater comfort and convenience for him-
self and his family.
The higher land values are counted an
asset too. For higher land values mean
more taxes for roads which means more
rnd better roads which mean more profits
for the farm. It Is an endless circle of in-
creasing prosperity.
In one Virginia county the government en-
gineers found that good roads more than
paid for themselves in one year. That was
belter than 100 per cent on the farmer's
money which went into gpod roads construc-
tion. And with the hardest usage those Vir-
ginia roads will bo there for five to ten
other years of profitable usefulness.
KEEP THE .WINDOWS OPEN.
Every year with the coming of the first
few cool nights there is a putting down of
windowB. The old fallacy that wintry night
air is unwholesome still persists despite all
that has been done to correct the nation.
And as a consequence early fall colds are
frequent and grip and pneumonia follow in
their wake.
Fresh air i.5 the worst enemy to the physi-
cian's pocket book. Closed windows in of-
fice and bed room are the dearest friends
of the undertaker.
And that institution which Texas main-
tains out at Carlsbad would never have one-
half its present number of guests if people
were on as good terms with fresh air as they
are with stuffy bed clothes.
Keep the windows open! God put the air
here for people to breathe Just a3 It is. He
did not intend they Ehould close themselves
up in airtight rooms and smother their lungs.
And those who persist in breathing impure
air must pay the penalty.
I'niverMty professors are usually accorded the
V.. i. -t lilwriy of speech and opinion rightfully
- . v.e think. I; J university professors should
begin to Uarr. that in war timei it is not well
:r o; ir.h.ns that lead to seditions or trea-
r.nble u'lerances and action. One Texas uni-
vr'.ty pro:'r-or walked the plank because of his
r.kimr up w :th a pacifist organization whose chief
purple seemed to be to furnish conjfort to the
' r.rrvy and now t .vo Columbia professors have
1 -n ons'ed lr a ions not compatible with the
d-gni'y and duties of their position. Denton Hcc-
; r :'( hronu'.C.
7 rei-'-nahle utterances are treasonable by
Ah.rr-.''r pok'-n. And those words and act
i' r which ron are now discharged from positions
ot it;t;u' -ice w.il. in 'he course of the war be
luni-heii l.y ini; riv.nment and perhaps death. The
people t '.he l ulled State s all of them must
Karn the definition of loyalty.
Dr. K. J. iraddock county demonstration agent
I says tl.at ii.nds are assured now for the sweet
hen mane li.at its success is now assured. The
I-ant is to be loca'nl near the railroad for the
convenience of loading for shipping and work on
its construction will Lenin as sooa as arrange-
ments can be c mple'ed. It is the purpose n
complete the house m time to care for this year's
potato crop the digging of which will commence
toon. Denton Record-Chronicle.
With all that has been said and done by those
Early Morning Observations
By George M. Bailey.
They are discussing the turkey situation and
what the government will want next month. We
do not doubt that the puhlic is going tN be
pinched but if the quartermaster is on the job
there is not the slightest reason why Uncle Sm
should be caught in the gouge as he will ascer-
'ain by communicating with the Cuero board of
uade.
It's clearly a case of "Thank you Mr. Atkins
sir" over on the Flanders fr.nt.
One paper says Colonel House is the closest
friend the pre-ident has. The colonel is one of
ihe most generous friends the president has. The
piesidcnt has sonic friends in Texas who were
(.o close they wouldn't give up a five-spot to the
last campaign fund and yet they wanted to fall
into ten-thouand-a-vear jobs.
The result of the game in Chicago didn't even
affect the goose egg market much less the hen's
aids cpiot.itions.
The bride who pcrti-ratcd lu r husband's aii-
.cor.iy with ht r tt.it t is r. ported to be overcome
and with his intcstir.es jmru-'urcd in ten places he
is not entirely uiun ercome himself. A bride should
always begin her otTensivc with roUingpins. broom-
sticks anei the crockery and work up to the heavy
.irtiliery gradually.
"The Germans Stjrm in Waves" announces a
w York headline. And you observe that they
also wavered m the storms.
N .'w some X. V. reformer is protesting against
m nding tobaceo to the soldiers on the grounel
hat it is injurious to health and morals. An-
other fool who regards real men such as our
soldiers are as tender infants to be remembered
only by gifts of Idly pops and infant catechisms.
The Toledo Blade says : - i'o get satisfactory
results the t e f the boot should he non-partisan."
nd it should have a four-inch spike in it too.
The yo-jn man who used to rig up a vine-clad
cottage and a-k his best girl to become queen
of it now has a son who proposes in this man-
ner : "I have a flivver and seven gallons of gaso-
line; will you be mine?" And the divorce fol-
! nvs just as so-n as rite gasoline is gone.
So far as T. .is is concerned she wants the
w rid i understand that she is leagued with
Kansas only for defensive ar. 1 democratic pur-
poses.
Ha ' iy Fljnn may be right from a scientific
standpoint in urging the stibMif.ttion of cornme.i!
f r :- ap by middle age pe. pie. but gran'ing the
-iperi.'rity r f cornineal for middle aged people
we stiil hope tile use of so.ip will ceiuinue in this
icinity at ie w until h:' skin craeks.
When wit! the clean ntai. p-l:te soda fountain
girl arrive: t some of 'lie t".rn"ains there are
yi unif bar'-anans -h :.; p.ir ntiy graduated from
the he.g pen
The Mexican government will buy corn and
sell it at c -t to the hungry people. The Mexican
government inu.-' be made up of lunatics. Why
don't they make the starving poor give up every
cent they have and forfeit their immortal souls?
That is the Ameruan food hog's way.
It seems to us General Pershing will have to
cease giving out interviews in France or adopt
Admiral Sims' plan and deny their accuracy be-
fore they apprar.
We are conscious of a f
unless :he 'oiitts win. nrtlt
-r j y -will ver iihimim-f ;i
ng occasionally that
-n.-t stive oi hope
h iri-'-n of our life
again but even if the worst should harpen the
chances are that eggs dropping t 40 cents a dozen
would flood our soul with sunshine.
This La Fel'.e'.te matter d .esn't remotely in-
volve the principle of freedom of speech but
whether the constitution gives freedom of treason
even to a senator.
H-adline in last Thursday's Chicago Herald:
" Tossibly '04 Illinois Junior Officers May Get
Houston F-st t." All the lliiur.is s. nior and
junior off: ers and all the enlisted men as well
absolutely cm ar. 1 do get their Houston Posts
every mor:..ug.
It freqvm'iy happens that the S'.n is more popu-
lar than the t .ther but so far as we know nobody
has ever mentioned the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln
of the Pullman company as an instance.
With th." adjournment of coneress. we are
again depr- -eel a we are reminded that ii".v is
when Cham;. 1 lark is going back to his district
to run out those recalcitrants with a shotgun.
We really h pc Champ will change his mind and
not do it.
To show Ik w moderate Houston is i.nr ac-
countants estuna'e that not more titan St.ooo
worth of energy was wasted yesterday afternoon
on account of the baseball game in Citie.'igo.
Everything is running so smoothly in South
Carolina since the North Carolina tro'-ps arrived
there and there is so lit!' friclim that we are
almost tempted to believe lhat the Tar Heels
brought some of the mountain moonlight with
them.
War enthusiasm is not iikely to reach high tide
in his country unil the people awake some- morn-
ing and ascertain from the papers that something
has happened to Robert M. La Follette & Co.
T. R. at home may not be a first-class mi'itary
factor but he contributes richly to public satis-
faction by the way he skins the Shadow Huns.
We are warming up to T. R. so long as he keeps
out of politics and lams hell out of the traitors.
The enten'e nations and the neutrals are en-
titled to discuss the ethics of Frances air re-
prisals in Germany but not the Germans. They
started that kind of barbarity and they should
either stop it or take their medicine.
who have conducted the campaign for the build-
ing of potato drying plants in Texas it is wonder-
ful that a city so progressive as Denton has
waited to this late day for the erection of one.
Rut there is ample time now for Denton and for
those other cities which are behind in the good
work. Texas is going to have a great crop of
"sweets" and the farmers must get every cent
(ji their value.
This week has been South Texas Fair Week
in Yoakum and the Daily Herald of that city is-
sued a special "Fair Trade and Immigration"
edition which is a credit to the publishers and
to the city. Yoakum is one of the best of the
smaller Texas cities and its citizens ever respond
to any call issued in the name of progress. That
accounts for the patronage which makes it pos-
sible for the Herald to advertise city and sec-
tion as it docs so well.
"Two Small Girls Injured by Auto." "Insti-
tute Student Struck by Automobile." Just two
headlines from the morning paper. Three inno-
cent people'in the hospitals that is all. And they
thought they had a right in the streets I
The Y. M. C. A.
By H. Lee Millie.
This world war into which we have recently
plunged has been t producer of much phenomena.
So many strange and unexpected things have hap-
pened that it is a bold man who now will let
himself be listed as a prophet. There has been
more jolting of preconceived ideas in the past
three years than in any similar period in history.
But one of the strangest ideas that haa de-
veloped as to the making of a soldier is that he
should be religious. The sword and the cross
have been looked upon as opposing principles for
so long that it seems somewhat of a paradox for
army leaders and governments to conceive the idea
that a Christian organization is an indispensible
adjunct to an army camp. To be sure armies
have always had their chaplains and there have
been religious officers and religious men but
when before was religion regarded as an essential
in a fight tor victory?
Hut that is just what we have after three years
of war. Who does not know of the persecutions
of the liiotists in Russia until three years ago?
nv the new Russian government has made ap-
plication 10 the Young Men's Christian associa-
tion to bring its full program into Russia set up
is outfits" in the Russian camps. Why? Bc-
.Hic the Russian leaders desire to propagate re-
l..i 11 f r religion's sake? This is the explana-
tion that has come: "One thousand Young Men's
Christian association secretaries will be worth
:on than 100000 trained American soldiers."
And the secretaries will never fire a shot. But
they are expected to do more. They are de-
pended upon to restore the morale of the men
0 inspire the Christian ideal of clean living and
moral responsibility.
France has likewise asked the association to
come in wi:h its full program and now Italy has
followed with the same request. They believe the
V M. C. A. at work among their men will bring
victory rjuicker and make their men better for
the upbuilding of their nations after the war.
When was such a tribute ever before paid to a
Chn-tian organization?
f
At a time when people are asking if Chris-
tianity has failed is it not more appropriate to
recognize that in spite of all the carnage and
1 liH ebheil visible to the physical eye there is a
spirit in men that recognizes clearly that religion
is essential both to their personal and national
sab at ion? The reason the Y. M. C. A. has been
chosen is because it is equipped for the task to
minister to the whole man.
Tin- is the reason why the Young Men's Chris-
.i.in association which started out by raising the
- in of $5000000 to pay for service among our
: nr.u s is now out to raise $35000000. The de-
mand for us services has become so extensive
from other nations that the $5000000 which made
many
Ve
with t
in i:s
gasp in this country when they first heard
is now seen to be just a mere "starter."
in this country are more or less familiar
lie Ye iing Men's Christian association both
work in the cities in railroad circles and
in ti'i .11 my. It did a considerable work in the
Sp.ii:ih . tr."riean war and when the troops were
sei-t to the border the Y. M. C. A. went along
and proved itself so necessary to the well being
et .11 army that officials of the government army
KiciT and men have given it a hearty welcome.
Now c lines the secretary of war and explains that
the Y. M. C. A. because of us wonderful record
of service in the army and its popularity with
the men. has been given sole direction of Prot s-tan-
activities in the new camps being establish'. 1
(the regular chaplains of course being retained
and their duties not interfered withl. This is a
tri'jtrc that has rarely been received by a reli-
gious organization and is an evidence of th''
growth of the religious ideal of service.
When America entered the war the Y. M. C. A.
was the first to mobilize. It set the government
itself a worthy example. It was quick to rece'g-
nize the challenge the situation presented to it.
and just as quick to accept it and grasp this un-
paralleled opportunity for service to the young
manhood of the nation. It seems predestined to
this work and it was inevitable that an organiza-
tion of this kind should step into its opportunity.
Protestantism divided into scores of de-nominations
as it is. could not act quickly and efficiently
because there would necessarily be much over-
lapping and duplicating of effort. But the Y. M.
I . A. with its compact organization was able to
step into the arena of opportunity as the strong
oung giant of American Protestantism and wield
and influence and perforin a service that could
be performed best only in unified action. Dr. Tw-
ine its support from all evangelical denoinina-
tons. with the democratic eloctrine of special pri vi-
! ges to none and equal rights to all it was the
ideal representative for Protestantism to put into
the camps. The details of its program and the
me thoels of its secretaries have so uniformly com-
mended themselves to army officials that it bad
the immense advantage of a favorable recep-
tion on the inside.
lust how important the Y. M. C. A. as a part
of the army has come to he looked upon not only
by re-ligious leaders who might be accused of re-
lieious zeah but by responsible statesmen and armv
iejd'-rs. is shown in the testimonies of a number
.; men familiar with the service of the Y. M.
C. A.
Secretary Lansing wrote concerning the work
at an officers' training camp :
It has been a wonderful opportunity for the
Young Men's Christian association an opportun-
ity which I rejoice was seized and turned to the
best accoun". From many of the students I have
heard words of grateful appreciation of the service
which has been rendered them and I know that
the mora! and religious influences which have
been exerted have made the life of the camp
cleaner and better. Christian manliness or manly
Christianity (whichever you prefer) has found
a full expression in your work and I am sure
that it has made a deep impression on hundreds
of the young officers whose spiritual as well as
physical vigor will soon be put to the supreme
test. A clean heart as well as strong heart is
essential to the high character which ought to be
the ambition of every American soldier. Loyalty
to God and loyalty to count rv make a man.
Coventor JtVhitman of New York said in an
address: I know what the; Young Men s Christian
-ssociation did at the border last summer. I went
down with the N'ew York troops on the Texas
border and 1 can not tell you how glad I was
and how relieved if I may used lhat term to see
what this association was eloing with our boys
your friends and mine your brothers and mine
our soldiers that we sent from these towns and
villages and cities.
The Right Hon. David Lloyd George premier
cf Great Britain said : Wherever I go I hear
nothing but good of the work the Young Men's
Christian associations are doing throughout the
country and we owe it a very deep debt of grati-
tude. W hatever legal duties may be impostd upon
us as citizens there will always be plenty for
voluntary effort to do. Therefore I am glad to
see the work which the association is doing
throughout the country.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig G. C. B. G. 'C.
V. C K. C. L. F.. said : No one can be long in
France or England without realizing the immense
value of the Young Men's Christian association
and the constant extension of its activities itself
testifies to the high regard in which it is held by
our soldiers. 1 hope that the association will
make as rapid progress in the future as it has
done in the past.
Comparable only to the rise of the great orders
of the church which swept Europe in the Middle
Ages and fired the religious zeal of the people
is the rise of this modern force of Protestantism
and its wonderful growth in influence and num-
bers is proof positive that it is divinely inspired
and directed and enjoy3 a large measure of the
divine favor. Inscribed upon the cornerstone of
our Houston building is the inscription "Jesus
Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone" and
with such a foundation for the entire organiza-
tion it is capable of serving the whole world
and in this great world crisis has become a great
Instrument through which God makes the wrath
of men to praise Him.
Group Medicine
By H. Addlngton Bruce.
We are hearing much nowadays about "group
medicine" and many people are puzzled as to
the meaning of the term. They assume that it
involves some radical departure in medical prac-
tice. In this assumption they are only partly right.
Group medicine is already being practiced to some
extent.
It is a direct product of that specialization
which has become inevitable through the rapid
enlargement of medical knowledge. Physicians
necessarily tend more and more to select some
disease or type of diseases as special subjects
of study and treatment.
Thus one physician is known as a specialist
in the treatment of diseases of the nervous sys-
tem another as a throat specialist a third as a
stomach specialist and so on.
Ordinarily each of these physicians practices
quite independently of his fellows. The result-
especially when it is a question of making a diag-
nosis in a doubtful case often is unduly heavy
expense on patients and serious loss of time by
them.
To offset this it is proposed that specialists
voluntarily form groups inside or outside of hos-
pitals whereby for one fee a patient may have
the benefit of the knowledge of several specialists.
Such a system has obvious advantages but it
also has disadvantages. As was recently pointed
out by Dr. N. W. Faxon writing in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal:
"If incomes are pooled so also must expenses
which increases rapidly with the group medicine
system be pooled and salaries must be paid. In
other words medicine ceases to be a profession
and becomes a business.
"It means diminished personal relations to the
patient ; a real loss although difficult to estimate
in terms of money.
"Business is built upon advertising and the
rigid collection of accounts a thing doctors would
desire but which at the same time we recognize
would be taking advantage of others' misfortunes.
"So while recognizing the efficiency of group
medicine we see lhat there are attendant evils
that must be seriously considered."
Still the advantages of the group system are
indeed great. This will be appreciated most of
all by those who have had the experience of
having to pay fees to specialist after specialist
in the endeavor to obtain a definite diagnosis
of some obscure malady.
The great problem is how to obtain the ad-
vantages of group medicine without turning the
doctor into a business man and lessening his per-
sonal interest in his patients.
The medical profession I have no doubt will
yet solve this problem satisfactorily. Some of the
ablest minds in the profession are now concen-
trated on it. because of increasing belief that in
the word of Dr. Haven Blmerson :
"Whether by organization by endowment or
by State employment there must come a change
in the basis of medical practice."
Or as otherwise expressed by Dr. Richard
Cabot with special reference to the proposal of
compulsory health insurance :
"The great fault of English and German sys-
tems of sickness insurance is that they do not
center themselves around organized groups of
physicians that is. around hospitals.
"They stiil rest upon the primitive conception
of the doctor working alone like the cobbler or
peddler not in organized groups."
l'ln main purpose of medicine undeniably is
to make sick persons well in a minimum of time
;md at a minimum of expense. This is why group
medicine in seme form is likely to be the rule in
the futuie.
(Copyright 1917 by the Associated Newspapers.)
HOUSTON AND THE POST.
We esi frfls the Toledo Blade which wants
to kr. iw whether potlicker is a brew or a stew
that the real potlicker is a brew that does not
stew. Heio'im Post. That accounts for its lack
of universality. Toledo Made.
We are straining our eyes daily poring over
artnv orders in the effort to discover which of
the Wl nr.. r poems Cojotu l . George M. l'.aiiiy
i.f The Ho:- n Post will adopt for his anthem
111 this war.- Manchester Jnon.
1 if coursi we agree with The Houston Post
that potlicker is a great delicacy but it is by no
means so rare .1 elelicacy in South Carolina as it
seems to K in Texas whe-re they "take on"
over it powerfully. Colutnb;a State.
"The Toledo Blade tells us in Ohio hard rider
and doughnut time has arrived. It seems to us
that (lb; 1 wou'd help to conserve flour and sugar
by omitting do.ighni'.ts in such a time." H".ston
Pest. Sav. George have vou noticed the hole in
the mr doughnut? 'Nuff said. Mcmflr.s Ci'm-riii-rcni;
.U-i-eil.
We remind The Houston Post that the State
support' d Colonel Thomas H. Ball for governor.
Texas would have no difficulty whatever if che
would but follow the advice of the State. When
State has
a fellow to offer for governor
as "Tom" I'oill and doe-sn't elect him it deserves
the woes that come to it. Cui'mru St.Ue.
Bailey of The Houston Post intimates that
he'd like to have a recipe for persimmon 'v er.
The high cost of paper makes it impracticable
tor us U) accommodate him with such a document ;
but persimmons are abundant and cheap in Ala-
bama. Now is th.- time to place your order for
persimmons for the frost will soon have come to
mellow and sweeten them. Montgomery .-l.t-ecr-tuer.
SOME POSTSCRIPTS.
Electrically operated hair clippers have been
invented to save barbers' time.
European chemists have developed a method for
distilling alcohol from chicory roots.
A rubber heel has been invented that can be
slipped over the high heel of a woman's shoe.
About ifi. 000 New Zealnad farmers keep bees
llie ir apiaries be ing subject to government inspec-
tion. Glass paving blocks used in an experimental
way in a French city street lasted less than two
years.
A novel revolving tooth brush is driven by a
water motor that can be connected to almost any
faucet.
Japanese naval constructors have built a can-
tilever crane that can lift 200 tons 105 feet from
its cente-r.
A roller conveyor has been elesigned especially
for moving bricks quickly about a building under
construction.
Fabric slippers to be worn over shoes for
polishing floors have been patented by a Mis-
sissippi woman.
Experts in China are investigating the possi-
bility of using bamboo pulp in the manufacture
of paper napkins. .
More durable than the usual canvas awning is
a new one made of metal that folds very com-
pactly when hoisted.
A Shotgun Judge.
(From the Fort Worth Record.)
Federal Judge Waller T. Burns has a con-
viction as strong as life that this country should
stand six United States senators up against an
adobe wall and "give them what they 'deserve."
"If any man deserves death he is the traitor"
thundered the Federal judge. "I wish I could
pay for the ammunition and if I were in the
firing squad I would not want to be the marks-
man who had the blank shell." Hon. Alexander
F. Kerensky of Russia appears to be losing his
grip. Should he totter and fall Federal Judge
Waller T. Burns would make an ideal leader of
the blood-and iron party of the new republic.
Porfirio Diaz in the earlier years of his regime
in Mexico had nothing on the peace-loving and
traitor-hating Waller.
Qiriek Doe With the Chloroform I
(From tht Brooklyn Eagle.)
Russia couldn't be expected to preserve the
fruit of revolution without a few are.
Tampering With Triflea
By Judd Mortimer Lewis.
DUTY FIRST.
When we have bought ourself a bond to help
that fight across the pond where Furioui Frank
and Fiery Hun" are doing itunts with bomb and
gun we're gonna take our two good eyes and try
and find some punkin pies; for it is punlcin-pie-time
now the punkins ripen on the bough and all
the things we love to eat the backbones and the
sparerib meat are waiting for us and by jing
that is the reason why we sing. The thought of
slathers of corn bread and such things with
which we'll be fed makes us uplift our heart in
song and dance-step as we trot along to buy our
bond. Our soul finds peace in a plate full of
rich pork grease and corn bread crumbs to mix
with it. That is the grub that seems to fit our
ribs and stays and makes us grin. And then the
punkin pie comes in and foaming milk in goblets
tall-7-those are the things for which we fall I
Those are the things which make us sigh spare-
ribs and milk and punkin pie I Carrot? The
gent across the hall may gather them and have
them all and he may have the okra too combin-
ing both into- a stew and eat them till the day
gets dim. ' We certainly are good to him I But
"Bond or Bondage!" is the cry and we are go-
ing out to buy our bond and help our fellows
fight theis battle for God and the right. We've
got to do that 'fore we feel we've any right to
hog a meal.
FAR FROM THE DREAMS.
These autumn nights I love to sit just nothing
else but sit
Where big moonflowers are round and white and
bats like shadows Tit
And let my thoughts stray where they will. In
any kind of ways
Adown the future if they will or back to other
days ;
But mostly when I let them go they go they
seek the days agone.
And crowd me in amongst a bunch of boys
sprawled on a lawn ;
And I hear each of them say what they'll be
when grown up tall;
And I chime in with what I'll be I seem to see
them all.
Those were great times! The supper thing had
all been cleared away
And we'd played ball until It was too dark for
us to play
And then we tossed the bats aside and sprawled
about and told
About the wonder-things we'd do when all of us
were old ;
Not one of us but should be great not one but
had a plan
To make the world a better world when he
should be a man
And that was long oh long ago! Aye that was
'way back there
But when 1 let my fancy free 'tis there it lore
to fare.
Not one I think of all the crowd are what they
planned to be ;
Some few are wed. some few are dead and some
I think like me
Sit when the white moonflowers are out and muse
on days agone
When we built up our futures out of shadows on
the lawn
And told the wonder-things we'd do. Ah well
we did our best
And when we meet the little chaps who laid them
down to rest
And they ask us if we made good and what we
all have done
We'll say we did the best we could and had a
heap of fun.
PATSY KILDARE. OUTLAW.
TWO BLACK EYES.
While T was eating breakfast at June's this
morning June kept telling me to come back soon.
It was hard for me to get away early and so
Rowdy and I had to hustle after we did tear
loose. Wc went to see the man with the iron
elogs and he saw us enmintr anil stooel up and
waved his newspaper and waved back and
Rowdy wagged his tail though I do not think
the man saw that. He came halfway down the
steps to meet me find led me up like a lady
though I would rather have sat on one of the
iron dogs.
The man said "Will you sit in a chair or on
my knee?" 1 said "There are mighty few knees
that I sit on and IsVlon't think 1 will sit on
vours." He. laughed anil then he asked me all
about Rowdy and me anil my mother who is in
heaven and my father who night watches in a
bank. When the school bell rang he made ine
promise that I would come to luncheon at the
long recess. But I was a sight at the long re-
cess for Iniogcne and some of the other big girls
said to me "We are choosing sieles for our
athletic club and we want to see whether you
can jump well enough to go on the jumping team."
I said "I can jump better than any of the other
girls and better than most of the boys." She
said " The first test is the hoop jump." I said
"Ixad me to it and I will do a jump that will
make a grasshopper look like a mud turtle."
I did not have to jump through the hoop as
I thought I would. It was a big hoop off a flour
barrel and it was lying on the ground anil I was
to make a short jump from a mark on one side
of the hoop and then jump from there just as
far and as quick as I could. Wasn't I the silly?
For when 1 jumped on the hoop the other side
of it came up and blainmed me across the nose
so hard thai I sat down almost as hard as the
hoop hit mi-. I could not see for a while and
I felt kind of sick. Rowdy came and stood in my
hip and licked my face and after a while I could
see and there was not a kid on that side of the
school bouse.
After it did not hurt so much I began to laugh
and that made Rowdy glad and he jumped arounel
like a monkey. 1 almost laughed my head off
for that was certainly one on me. I wondered
what the principal would say when she found that
Imogene had landed on me and I had not handed
her anything back. But I guess she will never
know. My teacher asked me what had happened
to me and I said I had stepped on a hoop which
was the truth. All the kids kept looking at me
but after school let out I went to the iron dog
man's and he was there and the old maid sister
too. Lunch was not ready so she played out
in the yard with mo. We had a ball as big as
my head and a net like the one the kids have at
school but never let me play with. She wears
short skirts and high shoes with low heels and
she rides a horse and can jump higher than can
I almost.
They asked me where I got the shanties and
I did not know what they meant. So the old
maid sister brought a looking glass and you ought
to sec me! If 1 do not hand a package to Imo-
gene then I am no longer Irish. The man asked
me what I did when 1 got hit and I said I
laughed. Then he and his sister looVed at each
other and laughed and the sister said "She's a
true iittle sport. They are born more often than
they are made." I said "Not me. I was born
only once."
After school when I went home I found out
that Mr. Carpenter is dead. Something drooped
on him where he worked. It must be a relief
for him to be in heaven. So Rowdy and I went
walking and to give him a treat we went and
looked in at the window of a butcher shop where
there was a perfectly dead possum with its teeth
grinning.
I did not like that so I went and stood by th
gutter till Rowdy got through looking. Then w
went home. The house is so mussy you would
hardly know Maggie had ever been here.
I prayed "Dear God which art in heaven
hollered be Thy name. I am praying to you
for this is no job for a lady angel. I want you to
rut it into mv head how to hand Imogene a
plenty. I wish you would be good tst Mr. car-
penter. He was not -so bad when you got to know
him and he gave me a doll on my birthday.
Give my love to my mother and bleas her and
my father and keep me a good girl ; but not too
good to land on Imogene; Amen."
(Copyrighted by Judd Mortimer Lewis.)
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