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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
OBJECTIONABLE SCHOOL
ROCKS

What has become of the school book
controversy? Superintendent Harris
agreed to have the Objectionable matter
pertaining to the South stricken out and
the books re-edited. We presume Mr..
Harris carried out his agreement, but
it seems to us the Northern author, in
that event, has us in the light Of beg
ging the question. The books cos1tain-
ing a perversion of historical facts AMI
the slanderous, defamatory al'1sion 20
the Southern soldier should have been
peremptori1y rejected. - Guardian Jour-
nal
If the publishers of the Objectionable
books have not complied with their
agreement, it becomes the duty of ST.
perintendent Harris to reject the books
and to withhold their payment. No
Southern man should sanction, much
less approve, the use of any book filled
with sectionalism in any school where
the descendants of Southern men are
taught 1t is time to resist with deter
mination such perversions of facts as
are contained in the books which are
acquired by men charged with the re
sponsibility of the education of children
attending schools in the South. In the
first place the Objectionable books
should have been cast aside as being I'M
worthy of consideration, and secondly
only such books as are truthful and If
possible by Southern authors, should be
provided for the schools attended by the
children of the men who sacrificed the
best that was in them when youths in
their patriotic efforts to maintain the
principles of their Constitution as enun-
ciated by the Heroes who resisted Brit
ish oppression and finally achieved the
independence of the United States.
The responsibility must rest on SD
perintendent Harris if any books un-
truthful or slanderous of the South are
permitted in any school of the State.
In this issue of school books is a prin-
ciple which is greater than dollars and
cents -.,l.t
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
Heart toHeart
Talks.
TEN TINES ONE.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

BLESSED are the pure in heart"
1t was said of certain character
that his strength was las the strength
of ten because his heart is pure"
Which declaration contains as much
truth as poetry.
The pure man is the strong man.
1t has been known for centuries that
the mind influences the body, but only
in recent years has the fact come to
be fully understood aud appreciated.
To illustrate:
Under rho influence of fear the blood
will leave latir face; under the inf1u-
ence of shame it will flush your face.
When yuu are amused sufficiently
your diaphragm moves up and down
and you laugh. When you sorrow
deeply the salt drops are shed from
your eyes.
These are every day object lessons in
the power of the mind over the body.
But laboratory tests go deeper.
It is a scientific fact that the baser
passions actually poison the blood.
Hatred. for instance, is one of the
deadliest poisons. Anger fear. despair
these instil deadly toxins in the
blood
On the other hand, the higher emo
ttons. such as hope, affection, good
humor, charity. are real elixirs of the
blood Pure love makes for strength,
hope brightens the eye and increases
he circulation, laughter messages the
organs and Increases flesh.
And all these emotions go with pu-
rity.
The man whose heart is pure enjoys
in the highest measure love, joy, peace,
hope and courage.
Whereas he whose heart is poisoned
by revenge, envy, wrath, despair.
weakens himself both soul and body.
The Master of the human heart
knew,
Would you be successful. vigorous,
buoyant. happy?
Then you must cultivate the pure
thoughts that make the pure heart.
Because thoughts are things" Pure
thoughts nourish pure strength, cour-
age. optimism. Impure thoughts will
be the bane of your life. They cause
discord, encouragement. pessimism.
Impure thoughts sap both mind and
body of their virginia. powers.
Now
The strength of him whose heart is
pure is las the strength Of ten be-
cause PURE THOUGHTS ARE TEN
TIMES AS STRONG AS IMPURE
THOUGHTS.
And remember
This is no mushy sentiment or the
elogical theory.
1t is a scientific truth.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN
His View of DR.. Cook and Peary Dis
covery-Probably Got Equal Results.

Christiana, Sept. captain Roald
Amundsen, the discoverer of the north
west passage, in an interview today
said:
''It is quite evident that Peary dis
covered no trace of Cook in the con-
tinually drifting ice. Peary probably, as
he explained, made his dash from a
more easterly point than DR.. Cook, but
many circumstances may have arisen to
cause change"
DO you think Peary obtained more
valuable scientific results than Cook?"
Captain Amundsen was asked, and he
replied:
Probably not They were equally
equipped with only absolutely neces-
sary instruments. Geographically their
achievements are of great Importance,
and it is very important also that the
two reports can be compared.
1T may be that they differed several
geographical minutes. 1t is not import
ant if the exact mathematical pole was
recalled or not, but it is important that
the geographical conditions of the spot
were observed Probably something
will be left to be done. What is left will
be sufficient for all Of us.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11

azaaAaaNan4a .,sv,a.r-4sar4es
outshine her girl companions at
party.
The girl was afterward arrested and
acknowledged in court that her long
ing for fancy clothes led her to COM
nit the Illegal act.
The judge fined her $25, which was
paid by her father.
According to the fathers statement,
the girls humiliation might have been
avertpd but for the desire to excel in
dress. She wanted TO emulate the ex-
ample of girls whose parents were
rich.
MY daughter has frequently told
me-" be said. that unless she could
be dressed as well as her chums they
would not want to associate with her.
my daughters sad case should be
warning to other girls of middle cir
cumstances who try to emulate girls
whose parents are wealthy"
Mr.. North says his daughter asked
him with tears in her eyes for a new
gown for the select party. He felt he
could not afford to crafty her. On
the impulse of the moment she secured
the gown by false pretenses and made
the misstep which brought her bitter
disgrace and ber family deep chagrin.
The lesson is not merely for girls.
1t is for schooltpachers and parents.
The public school is or ought to b.
pure democracy. Any considerable
distinction of the pupils by way Of
dress Gefeats the equality and frater-
nifty of the school and should be
frowned upon. Every child should be
made to feel entirely at home in the
schoolroom.
Parents should keep the desire for
expensive school clothes out of the
heads of their girls.
1t matters not if the parents are
financially able to buy fancy clothes,
They are out of place in the school
room.
Besides
Such dressing fosters a trait in girls
that needs no encouragement. In
stinctively they desire to wear pretty
clothes, but these need not necessarily
be expensive clothes. There is plenty
of time further on in their lives for
elaborate and costly toilets.
Poor Margaret North.
Desire for dress. hat craving for
beautiful things which has ruined the
lives of so many women, has made OF
her an early victim. she has paid her
penalty.
But
How many youthful hearts have
ached and yearned and suffered
hearts of the myriad children of the
poor!
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
WHO OBJECTS TO THE LAW?

Did you ever hear of person carry
ing a pistol concealed on or about his
person? Of course you answer yes. Is
there a demand that the statute de-
nouncing carrying concealed weapons
be repealed because it is sometimes vio-
lated? No. Then why do some say the
prohibition laws should be repealed be-
cause they are sometimes violated? -
Guardian-Jo Journal.
Because prohibition interferes with
the saloon traffic. The saloon man is
not concerned in the man carrying a
conceaed weapon, but has an all-pow-
erful objection to doing time on the
good roads. Who objects to prohibi-
ton? The liquor traffic, the saloon
men and their allies, who want the pro-
hibition laws repealed so that they may
be free-handed in their sale of intoxi-
cants. 1t is not the penalty in fines
which is effective in checking the evil
as it is "a term of sixty days or more
on the good roads.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
DlyoRcEs WHILE YOu WAIT.

A Judge in a western state gave no.
tice recently that he would hear any
divorce case brought to his court with
in three days after it was filed.
\ few days afterward a married
woman took a notion that she was
tired of living with her husband. She
filed her petition in this judges court.
and in three days, her husband being
absent, she had her decree of absolute
divorce.
Which is the limit of get-divorce-
quick.
This woman by the kindness of the
court was able to rid herself of matri-
monial bonds in about the time it
takes for two gypsies TO swap horses
Some one said of Goldsmith that
He threw off his friends
AS huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he wished
He could whistle them back.
This woman shook off her husband
with the same abandon. knowing doubt
less that If she could not whistle him
back she could as easily whistle an
other.
But
Suppose all our jurists should follow
this prompt judges procedure.
Then any tickle woman whose head
is turned by some adyenturer, any
foolish man attracted by some affinity,
would be able to doff the old and don
the new like unto a change of gar
ments.
And Rome in her day of dissolute-
ness would be clean by comparison.
In those later days of Roman moral
debauchery it was mostly the very
rich who made marriage an empty
ceremony. The common people could
not afford the luxury.
Should an era of lawful immortality
under the guise Of quick and easy d.
vorce like that exemplified by certain
of the rich set and stage people be-
come the order of things among the
mass of our people you would need to
revive the theory of a literal hell of
fire and birthstone to fifty characterize
our society.
Divorce may be necessary evil IN
our day and in extreme cases, but it
ought to be hedged about by every
possible restriction of law.
Divorces while you wait, like that
granted by this western Judge, should
never be permitted.
Instead of loosening the provisions
Of court procedure, judges should re-
strict them.
Fortunately the laws of most states
are strict along this line. requiring a
reasonable length of time under due
legal notice or publication.
In cutting new channels for efficient
legislation this western state has
bravely led the way for many reforms,
but in so doing the state has very nat
urally produced some freak legislation
and freak people.
Among freak laws and freak judges
these recent methods certainly afford
shining examples.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
WHERE IS THE LAND?
Sir Gilbert Parker Asks Premier AS
quith About It.

London, Sept. 8.-The question of the
ownership of the land of the North
Pole came up in the House of Commons
today when Premier Asquith replied to
Sir Gilbert Parker. The Premier want
C to know if the last information es-
tablished the fact that there was land
at the North Pole, as he understood
that this was not true. Sir Gilbert ex-
planned that he meant adjacent to the
North Peel, and Mr. Asquith suggested
that he frame another question. Con-
tinuing, the Premier, with a twinkle in
his eye, went on to say that the question
of, possession of the pole involved too
much hypothetical matter to permit him
to give a definite reply. If, however, it
proved to be British territory it GER
tainly would be taxed as undeveloped
land under the new finance bill.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
THE SQUARE DEAL.

Young man
Do you know why there is such a
large proportion Of failures in bust
ness in this country?
Do you think it is because of lack
of experience or of energy or of proper
location or of management or of proper
Advertising
All these may have something to do
with business failures: but, according
TO a business man who has made his
millions. 1t is lack of something else.
And what do you suppose is that lack?
Lack of downright business honesty.
You do not think so? You have come
to believe perhaps, as many young men
do believe, that knowledge of the BUSH
ness, tricks of the trade" shrewdness
in getting the better of bargain. the
ingenuity Of deceit-that these are the
qualities by which men get on in the
world today.
That is where you are mistaken.
The millionaire mentioned. whose
name is known throughout the coun-
try. says:
'I'm not a preacher or moralist.
business isp't thing to preach or
grow sentimental over. But it Is so
simple in principle that only a fool
mistakes it-and fails
Continuing. he says:
twenty-five years ago / discovered
for myself that honesty was the easiest
graft known to business. 1t can't fail
in the hands of man with common
horse sense. Once let it get abroad
that every customer coming into your
place gets The square deal and you
can't keep them out with club"
A very strong statement that.
But the man has proved It, He start
ed up in business determined upon
policy of making good" to every Gus
TONER.
His definition of making good was
the Golden RuIe-that is TO say he de-
termined TO treat every customer of
his precisely as he would want to be
treated If he were the customer And
from that policy lie reaped fortune.
Simple:
SO simple. as he says. that "only
fool mistakes it-and fails"
There never was enuDciated a truer
statement than that of the old copy
books. Honesty is the best policy"
But. you say
Isn't honesty principle rather
than policy" 1t is both. Undoubt-
-
all of us honest because Of principle.
As winning policy of procedure In
business ii Is 1.-THE easiest graft
known"
Do not get it into your head that
rascality pays. Dishonesty spells
FAILURE and spells it in capital let
tiers.
The square deal wins always, every
where.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
NOT GOING TO sHOEI-

The town is not going to Shoel, az
was predicted when prohibition became
effective on January I. The conditions
OF the banks, as given publicity in pub
lie print, indicates degree of stability
which is encouraging. The money in
the savings departments of the banks
reflects the sense of the Accommodations
OF the careful and provident. The state
ment of the banks tell the story in favor
of prohibition in tones which should be
encouraging to every good citizen who
tavors law and order and progressive
development
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
THAT WORD ..OBEY."

Slowly. but surely. the word 'obey"
Is being eliminated from the mar
riage service.
That word belongs to time when
woman was considered mans inferior
and was little more than a slave in
contributing to bis welfare.
Now woman has found her place
side by side with man.
Today. in America, woman is on
equal terms with man save only as to
her right to vote TO put the question
of obedience to her at the marriage
altar is to ask her to do what she has
no serious intention of doing.
Why ask her to be dishonest?
Marriage in its best terms Is equal
ity. 1t is or ought to be full part
nership. To ask one of the equal part
ners to obey the other is to destroy
the partnership or make farce of 1t.
Either the word should be cut out of
the ceremony or the bridegroom should
be asked to make a like promise.
Back in the stone age man wooed
his wife with q club. Obedience on
her part and tyranny on his was the
prevailing custom.
The wife was q mere chattel.
Something Of a like relation still
maintains in some European countries.
Even in our own laws. copied SO large
II from the common law of England,
are remnants Of the old idea that wom-
an must always be under somebody's
tutelage; that she is always and for
ever a child and needs legal guardian
ship.
The idea IS a relic of absolutism.
In America we began by declaring
all men equal We are ending by de-
claring all women equal 10 all men.
And everywhere throughout the
world. even In such benighted places
as India, Persia and Turkey. woman is
finding her proper place. Once denied
education and subordinated as the
plaything of man. she is coming to be
his equal
Marriage is the union of equals.
Instead of handicappIng the woman.
she should be permitted TO contract on
equal terms Man and wife should
not be obedient to each other. but
obedient to the laws of righteousness
and of love.
lie the union is not union of this
kind no Idle promise OF The wife to
obey the husband viii ever mend 1t.
Love and cherish 2 Yes
"0bey ~ No!
The wife who slayishly obeys her
husband wrongs not only herself, but
him. She makes of him a tyrant.
Bound together In Difference. in true
and honorable partnership. in willing
service and sacrifice. in sane tity. "un-
til death do you parts-this i; the only
true marriage.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11

greater risk than the soldier on the
battlefield and for better purpose.
Which is a poser for the general.
Moreover
In the course of the discussion the
plucky female says that men are sol
diprs because the loss of men in war
is less injurious to the world than
would be the loss of Il like number of
women.
There, now.
Is there not lot of truth in the old
lady's homeiy statement? The more
you think vt it the more you are like
to compare it with the boys wad.
which. the more you chaw it the big
ger it gets"
The old. thrPadbare reason for deny
ing to women the rights of suffrage on
the ground that they cannot bear arms
in battle is rather disposed of. and
one begins to see. as claimed by the
scrubwoman, that the soldier is
| mere loafer by the side of the woman
who performs q woman's function.
The soldier destroys; the woman pro-
duces.
Now the statesmen of England,
whose fighting is done by proxy, have
prohibited Shaw's play.
You see. they don't want the women
to get the scrubwoman's argument
into their heads.
The statesmen want the mothers of
the common people to go down into
the valley of the Shadow of Death
about once year in order that they
may bear sons who will be food for
the dumdum bullets of the dervish
| driven natives of Arabia. the fanatical
| fighters of South Africa or the mutt
| neers in India.
The women of England and of the
world have been furnishing this battle
food for many generations, and down
| through the centuries has come the
mourning wall of the Rachels refus-
| ing to be comforted because their
children are not.
When woman comes into her own,
| wars will cease.
Fully emancipated, she will refuse to
! bear sons 10 support statesmen who
declare blood feuds for pure purposes
of greed. She will tell the lords of
war to go and do their own fighting.
And that will end war.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11


The New York Globe of September
= says: That must have been great
race tip in the arctic regions between
Lieutenant Commander Peary and DR..
Frederick Albert Cook. They had the
same starting point and the same goal.
1t is inevitable that they knew of each
others presence and it is entirely likely
that each knew the other claimed to
have discovered the pole.
Peary and Cook were, of course, con-
versant with all the facts attendant upon
each others start for the prize. They
had been comrades upon one expedi-
ton Then they became enemies, be-
cause of a dispute over certain fox
skins Cook started for the region of
ice first from his home in Brooklyn.
A little later, with far more complete
expedition, Peary started on his eighth
attempt to get to the top of the world.
The first objective point for both men
was Etah, Greenland.
Peary's friends put forward the claim
that Etah was his particular hunting
ground and that Cook infringed upon
courtesy when he took the Eskimo
Peary had depended on and followed
the lines set down by Peary for his own
guidance. On the other hand, Cook
friends will insist that the village Etah
was not invented, discovered and main
tanned by Peary for his exclusive use.
Whatever the truth of these asser-
tions may be, the fact remains that
Peary and Cook both started their polar
dash from Etah. The village gossip
must have made each explorer fully
cognizant of the others action the mo-
1nent he reached this place. Cook got
the first start from Etah He left that
place in the winter of Ioo7-I9o8 for the
POLE and returned to it after reaching
his objective, spending a winter in
Ellsmere Land, living like an Eskimo
huddled in ice huts and eating frozen
food When he got there he found Har-
ry Whitney, the New Haven man who
had accompanied Peary to the north
the year before and remained behind to
guard the Peary cache of supplies.
Whether Cook had learned from any
native source during the long winter of
Peary's movements can only be told by
Coo1- 1,;.,eo1f ~, bic -e4,,r,, RI E+ob
it is certain that he at once started hot
| foot for civilization. He entrusted the
greater part of his records to Whit
ney's keeping, and broke for the nearest
line of telegraph to get his discovery on
record first. Cook got to Lerwick in
the Shetland islands FIVE days ago and
sent out the dispatch that startled the
world. Peary, treading close upon his
heels, hearing from Etah villagers that
Cook had beaten him in the first lap Of
the race, charged down the coast to-
ward Labrador in the steamer Roose-
welt to get in touch with the wires for
the first time at Indian Harbor yester-
| day. According to the records at pres
ent Cook beat Peary both on the dis
covery of the pole and on the making
the fact known.
The last dash must have been a des-
perate one. Cook was almost without
supplies, while Peary had vast adj
vantage in that fact. At the time that
the men must have learned of their
rival claim, less than 600 miles of the
icy Greenland coast separated them.
Cook had to wait for the Danish boat
Hans Egede to leave Upernavik for
Denmark, while Peary had his own boat
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
AN nLn WoMANS SAY

George Bernard Shaw is an eccentric
IrishmaD who writes problem plays.
Once i'll awhile Shaw gets bold Of a
big truth.
In a recent play of his a scrubwom-
an gets up from her task Of hopping
The marble floor Of the English war Of
Gee and engages In argument with the
thief Of the war council.
Decidedly The shrewd I'D woman
gets the better of The war lord in the
ieEate. whirIi II aboiit war and equal
suffrage.
rhe working NNilau very biuntly
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
Too obsdisnt.

What is the trouble between Hetty
Highup and Mark Spottleg'
She wrote to him one day and told
him some great secret she didn't want
anybody else to know and asked him
to light his next cigar with her let
ter"
'Well%
swell, it seems he did it."-Chicago
Tribune.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
STANDS BY DR.. COOK
Inspector of Danish North Greenland
Convinced He Discovered Pole.

Copenhagen, Sept. 8.-Daugaard Jen-
sen, Inspector of the Danish North
Greenland, told representative of the
Associated Press today that he was per-
fectly convinced of the truth of DR..
Cooks narrative. Jensen first heard that
DIR. Cook had attained the Pole from
Eskimos. He then met DR.. Cook who
confirmed the story.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
A Labored Exclamation.

"Why is that woman scowling at
your"
"That's my sister"
"But why should she scowl at you:"
well. You see, she's very nearsight-
ed. and as there's something familiar
about my face She fanries it mus
be her husbands" Cleveland Plai.i
Dealer.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
HER KINGDoM FOR a DRESS.

Margaret North. a pretty nineteen
year-old school Girl of Chicago. repre-
scented herself as another person and
secured q gown s. Mhie she cc.,la
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
BELIEVES IN BOTH
Prof Brewer of Yale Thinks Both
Cook and Peary Found the Pole.

New York, Sept 8-Prof William
H. Brewer Of Yale University, who is
honorary life president of the Arctic
Club of America, sent the following
telegram to this city today: q believe
that both Cook and Peary have reached
the North Pole"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11
COOK AND PEARY

Race for the Pole-Each Knew Other
Was After the Goal-Each Started
from Etah-Cook Reached the Pole
First as He Did Civilization on His
return Home.