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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
By DOROTHY DIX.
By TOM POWERS.
Copyright. 1912. International News Service.

idiots not to assert their own in
dependence by dressing in a ration
al and comfortable way, until you
take look at men themselves.
Then you perceive that women
are not the real AFFECT slaves of
fashion. Men are, for women, at
least. show some glimmer of re-
bellion against the autocrat occa-
. sionally, while men follow the lead
er blindly.
A woman, for instance, conforms
to the general mandates of the ty-
rant who decreed that dresses shall
be tight or loose. and hats small or
large, but she has enough origin
atty to try to make her own gown
or hat different from the others,
and expressive of her individual
taste. whereas a man would die be-
fore he would put on a pair of
trousers that wasn't a duplicate Of
those worn by every other man in
the street, and he would as soon be
accused of committing murder as
of having appeared in public in a
hat with a brim a quarxer of an
inch wider or narrower than that
of Brown or Smith.
A man may have the courage to
lead forlorn hope, or to try to
break the aviation record or drive
an automobile 80 miles an hour, but
he turns pale and faint at the mere
suggestion of dressing differently
from his neighbors. Old Dame
Fashion has got him under her
thumb, all right.
Men boast of the superior COM
fort of their style of dress over that
of women. but between the misery
of straight front corset and a
high. stiff linen collar that looks
like a section of sewer pipe, heaven
knows there is little to choose. One
chokes you about the waist and
hips and the other around the neck,
and which Is the most uncomfort-
able and the most unhealthful no.
body knows.
nc SOlldI has no JhS1ihS"lloH va
earth. 1t is a harsh and hard
ahomination that cuts off the blood
supply from the brain and holds the
head in wise, and that adds 20
degrees Of temperature to the body
in hot weather. yet no man dares
defy fashion and go down to bust
ness in a cool. comfortable Dutch
neck. such as women wear.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
:: SLAVES OF FASHION ::

IA FEN are always deriding
MI women for being the slaves
of fashion, and declaring
that the sex that has no pockets
has no business with the ballot.
Nothing that their harshest crit
ic could say on the subject would
half do it justice. The dress of
the average woman, particularly if
she is inclined to be a little stout,
Is a collection of implements of
torture that would put the rack and
the thumb screws of the Spanish
inquisition to shame.
Lace a woman in a straight front
in which she can not take a long
breath or make a free movement to
save her life, and that pushes her
stomach up under her ribs and dis
poses of the balance Of her anat-
omy In unnatural places; perch her
up on two-inch French heels that
make every step an acute agony;
pin on her head four pounds OF
false hair with AZ hair pins that
dig into her scalp at different an
gles and you have before you a
creature who is undergoing tortures
that make the sufferlngs OF the
early Christian martyrs look like a
picnic.
Yet this is the manner in which
fashion DEGREES that a woman shall
rig herself MP when she goes forth
to enjoy herself. Furthermore, fash
ion, that demands it's toll of life and
death. orders women to stsrve
themselves to be thin; to strip Off
their petticosts and go insufficient
~ clad to appear simmer: to wear
thin slippers and silk stockings in
cold weather and to appear with
bare necks and threats when the
Thermometer is lowering around
the zero mark. and women meekly
obey tho4gh they kin themselves
by doing so.
When you contemplate the offer
ings of life and comfort and health
and happiness that women make on
the altar of fashion, 1t does look as
If their brains were cut on the
bias, and frilled in the middle. and
hobbled around the bottom, and
that the fit home of the entire sex
was the institution for the feeble
minded.
You can't wonder that men grid
at them for being the slaves of
fashion. and cali them fools and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Seek to Elevate
Morale Of Glass.

Nothing need be said antagonis-
tic to labor unions 80 long as they
work within their own rights and
do not seek to exercise those rights
in a spirit contemptuous to the
rights of the general public.
1t would be much more to their
credit if, instead Of using their
power as means of escaping the
just penalty for their shortcomings,
they would seek to elevate the
morale of their class and to ami
mate it with a spirit prompting
to a finer and more generous 10y
atty toward the public that it is its
privilege to serve.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Many Accidents
Due to Negligence.

BY one who has been for 81 years
in railroad service, and during all
that time careful observer and
student Of conditions. the published
assertion is confidently made that
at least rs per cent Of these IA
talities are due to the negligence
of employees.
If this Is in the case, is there
anything for an endangered and an
unnecessarily endangered public
to say or to do in the premises?
This negligence is certainly not
due to the failure on the part of the
railroad management to issue
program Of service and to con-
struct rigid system Of rules and
regulations. The root of the diff
ficulty lies in the laxity of en-
forcement, and that laxity is due to
two causes the first of which is
that an American is rarely willing
to do exactly as he is told. He has
such a conception of the sufficiency
of his own judgment that he re-
CARDS every ordinance promulgated
for his observance as something to
be more or less literally interpreted
and applied just according to the
impulse of the moment.
It cuts across the grain Of the
American temperament to obey-to
do ABSOLUTELY AS HE IS Or
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Does Ingratitude Pay?
- y y

Did Not Pay Bacon UNANIMOUSLY Attacked
His Friend 1t VIII Probably Not Pay in the Case of
William T. Bryan Who for Selfish Reasons Deserted and
Attacked Champ Clark Who Had Always Befriended Him
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
DR.. Parkhurst's
The Increase ofOurRail-
road Accidents
---and---
The Real Reason WHY
They Occur
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. DR.. c. III. Parkhurst

n TOT many people are sufTi-
" GENTLY interested in figures
to be willing to study sta
tistics, even though they relate to
matters that are of vital popular
concern.
1t sometimes results from this
that problems that wait upon pub
lie action for their solution are left
unconsidered and unsolved to the
sacrifice Of the general advantage.
One of the features of our times
is the large and, we are authorita-
lively informed, increasing number
of railway accidents and horrible
railway disasters.
So accustomed are we becoming
to such events that they are now
no more than "a hours sensa-
ton, except to those who are i'm
mediately concerned-that Is to
say, the wounded, and the rela-
tives and friends of the slaugh
tered.
The showing we maNe is an I'M
favorable one as compared with the
situation in Great Britain, where,
in 1906, for instance, the number
Of passengers carried was greater
by four hundred million than in
the United States, and yet only 40
per cent as many were killed as
here, and only ten per cent as
many injured-a proportion all the
more surprising from the fact that
density of conditions In Great
Britain would naturally render
traffic both more difficult and more
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Does Ingratitude Pay?
Continued From First Column.

tcuar thing which he engaged of them made
doubleday AS MUCH AS HE POSSIBLY COULD
But in the results that achieved there was considerable
difference
Bryan took hold of the Democratic party years
and earnestly and energecay year after year all pieces
lie nominated himself and beaten three times He ecured be-
tween times turning into cash the notore his office seeking
and that made him rich But didn't the Democratic party
much good
Ryan also made plenty of money and the
into casa great millions it. But he found the
system anquaed pulling dirty old lighted with oil
lamps de left the street systemic has been connected
with for time having made for Morgan and others
very different proposition and certainly much better than he
found it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Hasty Judgment
VS.. Regulations.

VS.. Regulations.
That is the occasion of much
mischief on the part Of men occu-
plying subordinate position. and
In the case of railway employees
results in substituting hasty and
risky judgment of their own in
place of regulations that have been
carefully thought out by men who
have wider grasp and a keener
sense of contingencies.
A second cause of lax enforce
ment lies in the fact that railway
labor organizations have now be-
come so strong that in many cases
the railway management stands
more in awe of the unions than the
unions do Of the management, 50
that when locomotive engineer
for instance, has been guilty of an
accident through violation of one
Of the rules of the road, the union
rallies to his defense.
The grievance committee, strong
in the consciousness of the strength
of the union, fights it out with the
management, weak in its fear Of an
impending strike, and the probable
issue will be that by the time the
killed and wounded are in their
graves or under treatment in the
hospital the engineer is back on his
seat and the long suffering and
helpless public stands by wondering
when the next derailment or COLI
sion will occur.
We have had three Of them re-
Gently. It is all q matter between
the management and the unions,
and the poor public can either walk
or take the cars and ride to their
graves. Mr.. J. o. Pagan (the au-
thority referred to in the earlier
part Of this article), in his recent
ly issued work on railroad manage
ment, quotes a railroad superin-
tendent as saying: With a free
hand we could put a stop to this
killing in a week"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

Bryan has big voice. and Ryan has small voice-he doesn't
earn his living with his voice When he he hires
them-Eh Root ct cetera If Ryan had had voice like Bry
an voice at Baltimore he might reasonably have got his
seat when Bryan attacked him and replied
What right have you attack anybody9 What did
do to the that from the Democratic and
the people IN genera What do do for those that support
you9 What have done for the Democratic party but lead
from failure another2
While you have got rich what has happened your follow
ers What have done lawmakng, what have eve
but What will there be to show for you when you disappear
l. at least have built the street lines and employed tens
of thousands of workers. WHAT HAVE YOU DONER'
With all Of Ryans shortcomings whatever they may be- it
fact that compared with Bryan, he looms who has
actually done something that he undertook do whereas Bryan
and has been of the windsucy for him. able to
charge gooc price for the noise that the wind makes
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

DERED. The average man among
us, of whatever kind or description
has just intelligence enough to i'm
agine that it covers more ground
than it can naturally stretch Itself
over.
Hasty Judgment
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05

taken almost anywhere where there ire rails
over which it may run. Incidentally ftsmay be
mentioned that the railroads of the country are
manifestihg their appreciation of the valuable
and DISTINGUISHED work which the Red Cross is
doing in this sphere by hauling the first aid cars
free of charge over their respective lines
The first aid car is divided into two parts of
almost equal size One-haf of the space OF the
car is given over to an assembly and demonstra-
ton room-for as has been explained, the car
Is hospital school on wheels-and the other
half is taken up by the living quarters for the
instructors and crew. These men live on the car
at all times just as doctors and nurses might
reside at a hospital with which they were con-
nected. It is in the assembly and demonstra-
ton room however that the chief functions or
the car are carried The room is large
enough to accommodate considerable number
of people, seated camp stools, SO, that It Is
entirely practicable to use it as lecture hall in
giving first aid instruction when there is no
larger hall available in q town visited and when
weather conditions do not permit of the first
aid demonstrations being conducted in the open
air.
But the first aid car has another function quite
aside from its primary purpose OF nomad1c
school. It may on occasion, be used as tenn
porary or emergency hospital and it is likely to
prove Of great value in this capacity since 1t
can upon telegraphic request, be rushed to any
camp or town or village where disaster OF any
kind has taken place and where there are, may
hap, no regular hospital facilities OF any kind
The car carries the necessary apparatus for
quickly Transforming the lecture room into
hospital ward and there is a stock OF stretchers,
remedies bandages and all the paraphernalia
necessary for use under such circumstances
This latter equipment is in addition, of course,
to the appointments and instruction outfits,
charts books, etc. which are designed merely
for use in the regular instruction work on the
car and which later will probably be the equip
ment used nine-tenths OF the time, for summons
to lend aid in great disasters viii, happily, It L.
hoped, be Of rare occurrences.
Few people appreciate the great need for more
general instruction IN first aid work such as the
Red Cross is going to try to give through the
instrumenfalfty Of its new rolling stock We
have become pretty well aroused IN this country
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
CANDLE NUT NUTRITIOUS

The Queensland nut" is closely al
lied to, if not identical with the cam
die nut (Macadamia ternifolia). and
is one of the most nutritive nuts in
the world. The inhabitants Of the So
ciety islands, where the candle nut
flourishes, after slightly baking the
nuts in an oven, and removing the
shell, bore holes through the kernels
and string them on rushes, hanging
them up in their houses to be used as
torches, which are made by enclosing
four or five strings in leaf of the
screw-pine (Pandanus). These torches
are often used in fishing by night and
burn with much brilliancy. The lamp
black used in tattooing was obtained
from the shell of the candle nut. A
gummy substance exudes from the
candle-nut tree. which the Tahitians
chew.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05

~
Win carry11 this first aid crusade
INTO the Dps and mills and
throughout railroad world. the
Red Cross lately enlisted the
cooperation 4 the Roy Scouts Of
america, an first aid instruction III
being given All Of the Youngsters
in this orni1ation according 40
plans and aethods prepared by tho
Red Cross
Such the demands uEon IT
that a M aid car cannot fremain'
Tor long aany given poink. The
general plai adopted is td spend
about three US at each boint Sc
lected by the ,ilway ofacIals-that
is, the officers the railroad sys
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05

~, osar then that the Red Cross is directing
,ts FRET aid propaganda to the railroad men ol
tba country and to the workers In SHOPS mils'
etc. .,-s
&, s+r,ction in first aid to- the injured (Which 1t
i argued is just as necessary as instruction IN
bvgienel but it is conducting by means Oh THIS
new type of car, campaign Tor the prevention
of accidents Statistics seem TO lnolcale tnal
ahout one-half of the accidents which result In
iniury or death would have been preventapie Dy
tha exercise of proper care and reasonable pre-
vantive measures and the Red Cross is endeavor-
mo 70 teach workmen how to dodge mishaps and
how tn minimize the effect of an accident II II
does appear inevitable
THE Red Cross will not depend entirely upon
The lessons and lectures given on the first aid
cars. although these pave the way for effort IN
tho direction of volunteer first aid work. sup
plementing these are series CT charts ana, more
important yet simple books OF instruction ana
surgical materials which can prove servlceaple
in unskilled hands special first aid book has
heen issued for the use of Industrial workers and
has been translated into italian, Slovak, Polish
and lithuanian. In the near future there VIII De
issued other editions of this work specially adapt
ed for use by women, by policemen and hremen,
by sailors and by farm hands and ranch workers.
OF course it is not the thought that such IN
struction will enable the most skilled OF the
volunteer Red Cross workers to replace the doc
tor except in the Of trivial injuries. but
with the new knowledge these volunteers VIII
know what to do until the doctor arrives, and
often. by stopping flow Of blood or by other
means may be enabled to save life when regu-
lar physician is not promptly on the scene.
TO cover the full scope Of this new work the
Red Cross has found it necessary to go even
farther and to supplement its work OF instruc-
ton by providing several different forms OF nrst
aid boxes equipped with certain simple remedies
and necessities such as required In putting
the first aid instruction into practice In shops
and elsewhere. These supplies are sold at prices
which are intended merely to cover the cost Of
preparation without providing any profit. and
that they supply long felt want would seem to
~ indicated by the fact that the Red Cross has.
during the past year. Sod considerably more than
Is 600 worth of suck sspplies. And. not content
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
GREATEST OF CANAL LOCKS

1t will be interesting enough from
topical point of view for the average
reader who may have occasion to ex-
press himself upon the Panama canal
to read up on canal locks, says the
Chicago Tribune Don't make the mis-
take of committing yourself to canal
greatness as wholly within the Canal
Zone for the longest canal lock in
the world has just been built by the
federal government at ST Mary's falls
at Sault Ste Marie, Mich. This longest
lock in the world measures 1850 by
80 feet, with low water clearance of
rs feet
This new canal, which parallels the
old 800" canal from Lake Superior,
lies to the north of the old st. Mary's
falls canal, which had its origin when
the state of Michigan dug the first
$500" canal lip 1856. In the early 70's
traffic through the Michigan built
! ostlaf II d 1ntfeasedvto srcn an extent
that the federal government took it
over and in 1881 had completed its en-
largement to 160 feet width and con-
structing the Wenzell lock-stil in
use-515 feet long and 80 feet wide,
with depth of 16 feet at low water On
the Canadian side are the Dominion
governments canal and lock, but by
far the greater tonnage has been US
| ing the American side, where the
later Poe lock has had a length of
500 feet, width of 100 feet, and depth
of 20 feet
| Now the greatest lock on the globe
has been completed in the United
| States new canal. Above the lock the
new canal basin Is 260 feet near the
lock gates, widening away to a maxi
mum of 500 feet, with uniform depth
of 25 feet. The lock gates are 108
feet wide. The freight tonnage an
nually for the great lakes is 100000
900, and is about one-sixth of the
freight movement of the country. The
significance of the canal lies in the
statement that almost 20 per cent. of
this great lake commerce passes
| through the several $500 canals, eff
fecting saving estimated at s250, O00.-
600 over rail traffic.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
FLOW PICKING MACHINE.

An apparatus for plucking flowers
and collecting seed consists of tube
connected with a pair of shears At
the forward end of the tube is a fork
which is slipped under the flowers.
The blossoms imprisoned between the
prongs are severed by blade travel
ing upon the fork, and are dropped
through the tube into receptacle at
the rear Of the apparatus.
The device not only collects flowers
very quickly but also without injury
When the flowers are plucked by hand
1t is almost impossible to break twig
without leaving behind a long silver
of bark. Sometimes even a whole
plant must be torn up by the roots.
The apparatus can also be employed
for collecting seed capsules which are
often crushed when picked by hand,
SO that the seed is lost. The entire
capsule drops uninjured into the re-
ceptacle at the rear, so that the seed
is preserved.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
MAKING ARTIFICIAL LACE


Mechanism and chemistry combined
have furnished France with new
product artificial lace. The general
public has heard little about 1t. but
the lace manufacturers of Lyons. Ca
lais and Caudry have for some time
past been much perturbed over this
unexpected competition. to which they
will have to submit.
Artificial lace is in effect manu-
facture Of very simple nature.
There is no weaving employed In its
production. The machine consists In
its essential parts of receptacle con-
tanning a cupro-ammoniacal solution
of cellulose, a metallic cylinder upon
which is engraved the negative or
the design and a coagulation vat
A rotary motion is given to the CYL
inder, over which flows the solution,
which, entering the interstices of the
engraved pattern, fixes itself immedi-
tely in the coagulative liquid, out OF
which energies the texture ready to
be dyed and dressed.
Artificial lace has beautiful APP
pearance 1t is homogeneous and I'M
alterable; will wear better and is less
combustible than ordinary lace. Wa
ter does not affect it. Any desired
pattern~can be obtained by engraving
new cylinder.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Pipe OR CIGARETTE.
Latter Apparently the Form in Which Tobacco
Was First Used.

While the question as to which preceded the
other the egg the hen, is still subject for dis
pute in the district school debating societies, the
question as to which came first into use, the pipe
or the cigarette appears to have the greater part
of the evidence so far as white testimony is
cerned in favor OF the cigarette-and antltobac-
conists may put that in their pipe and smoke 1t, the
Indianapolis News remarks. When Columbus land
ed the island of Guanahani which he called San
Salvador, October 12 1892, he and his men saw,
to their great establishment, number of copper
colored natives collected on the shore putting
clouds Of smoke from their lips and noses. They
were smoking what later to be called tobacco.
the leaves of which the natives had formed into
cylindrical rolls within the husks of the Indian
corn. While this evidently the most primitive
way of burning the leaf. there were pipes long be-
fore Columbus arrived Large numbers OF pipes
have been found in socaled Indian mounds in the
central west as well as along the northern lakes
and throughout the south In 1919. when Cortez
invaded Mexico, the natives smoked pipes made
from reeds and richly ornamented. Montezuma, IL
has been recorded, accustomed to take his
pipe after dinner when 1t was brought to him with
much ceremony by bevy of beautiful maidens and
handed to him after he had rinsed his mouth with
scented water
The North American Indian usually made his
pipes ont of kind of stone known as red pipe
stone, of which there were large deposits In the
old Sioux country and the great spirit is said to
have given his Endorsement to this particular ma
terial, which might have been a Sioux monopoly,
in these words:
This stone Is red. 1t Is your flesh. 1t belongs
to you In all. Out Of 1t make more tomahawkss
war hatchets nor scalping knives uss it only to
make the pipe Of peace and smoke therefrom when
YOU would propitate and do my will"