The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-03-09
past the War penat,mesfh has declined

past the War Department. has declined
to sell any of these rifles to dealers,
and they are permitted to go into the
hands of only properly organized, legit-
innate clubs and military organizations.
1t is said at the War Department that
il any Heterogeneous are in the hands
of proposed strikers they are probably
those which have beenhs discarded by
the European armies and were export
ed in large numbers Ito the United
States, where they sell for 50 and So
apiece. 1t is stated that the United
States Government has no power to pre-
vent that traffic, and that it might be
made proper subject for State regu-
lation.
Resources OF the South.
Judge Hamilton McWhirter, of Atk.
ems. Ga, who is General Counsel of this
Southern Railway, loses no chance tc
deservedly eulogiZe the South. II
Washington the other day he said:
1T is beyond the comprehension Of
anyone unfamiliar with it, and yet the
South has not by any means reached
the zenith of its prosperity, nor will il
| for many years to come. Any country
or section of country that has nat
ural monopoly is bound to become one
of the richest parts of the earth, and
the South has one of the greatest
monopolies of the country in its cotton
product. The civil war put the South
back 25 years in its development, and
the cotton product suffered in common
with all industries, IL it did not suffer
more than others. But in the last 1C
years it has gone forward at d ire
mendous rate, due largely to the in
creased uses of the staple, to improved
machinery and more extensive markets
INnr rafl Nt+I,n .,
cotton boil was of value to the grower;
now there is nothing of the plant that
is not used. By-products have become
almost as valuable as the cotton itself
Cottonseed is used, to make oil and food
products; the hulls are shipped all over
the world for animal food. and the stalk
is being utilized for the making of pa
per. All this has helped to make the
cotton section prosperous. The cotton
acreage has grown marvelously in the
last 10 years. My father has told me
frequently that only a Comparatively
few years ago the cotton growers would
not have known what to do with a mil
lion bales; now they are producing
100000 or 100000 bales every
year.
This wonderful growth in the cotton
industry has not come without hard
work and study. Farming. and espe-
cially cotton farming, is the most deli
cate business in the world. The bank
er or merchant may leave his business
in charge of other men for a week OF
10 days or a month without its suffer
ing, but the cotton grower and farmer
has to watch his crops with the atten-
ton only he will bestow. There is another
advantage the South has in its pro-
duction of cotton besides the fact that il
Is a monopoly; that is. that the growing
of the plant does not exhaust the soil
A field can be planted to cotton for 100
years, and it will be as fertile at the
end of that time as ever. The negro is
rapidly disappearing as a farmer, be-
cause he is not and never can be in any
sense business man. He is taking the
place in the world in which he belongs
which is not in business IT. eH
Mrs. Medill Mccormick. who was the
daughter of the late Senator Hanna, is
tremendously interested in settlement
Wcman's Civic Federation, and at a
recent meeting at Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins's home made a shortnbut interest
ing address. Mrs. Mccormick is deyot-
ing her time and fortune in a thoro
way, and with The assistance of her
wealthy friends, (which Isl sure to be
a power in helping the working girl
McCormick's last great work is to lease
a big d-fashioned' house on K street.
where she proposes estsi biishing resi-
dence for Industrial employees, women
and young girls, who will find here n
comfortable home at a minimum rate
of board. A manager from Chicago,
where these houses are in successful
operation, will come to Washington to
take charge of the domestic machinery.
while the social life of the house will
be conducted along the lines of a club
or settlement house, with each guest q
cooperating member of
the same.
The Department of Agriculture, which
is strenuousiy cndeavoring to protect
the big same of the United States. is
cooperating with what is called the
Bison Society and number of the big
game clubs for the purpose of preserv-
ing the buffalo and several other spe-
cies of game that is in danger of utter
extinction. Unfortunately the elk, the
tremendous big game of the North. has
not been included in these protection
efforts beyond the enforcing OF the State
game laws, so far as possible. The Or
ganizstion of Elks concluded that II was
about time for them to get busy in the
protection business. and SO themselves
propose to present a herd of % ellis to
the department OF Agriculture Tor the
purpose of perpetuating the species.
One might say thar there liz not a little
irony in this. They are really RESPONSE
Bile for the slaughter of. their name
sakes. and all for the purpose of getting
two elk teeth from each head. They
are now willing to wear imitation elk
teeth and have asked the Government
to. accept 90 elk. only third of which
are males. and place them for protec-
ton in Yellowstone Park. II is said
that in Yellowstone National Park they
will have the environment that will APP
proach their natural environment. and
that they canthere be sufficiently pro-
tected.
The District of Columbia Volunteers
are planning n great celebration to be
held On the 18th anniversary of their
enlistment on April 10th next There
Is to be parade in The streets of
Washington by the Volunteers, who
will be escorted by the High School
Cadets. They will call ON the Presi-
dent and the Commissioners. and prob
ably end the days celebration with a
banquet.
No Benefit, No Pay.