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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19
SELFISH AND UNGALLANT.

Dcar Miss Fairfax:
y friend of mine asked me to the
theater few nights ago, but re-
FUSED to call for me at my home.
He wanted me to meet him at the
theater. y friend of his took me
the same night and called at my
home for me. Now my friend does
not talk to me. DO you think he
has any ground for being insulted?
pERPLEXED.
You are the one who should be the
aggrieved party. If he sullls because
of the rebuke you gave him. don't let Ii
worry you. He needs the lesson.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19
THERE is LITrLE YOU CAN %

Dear Miss Fairfax:
] am young lady, twenty years
Of age, ana am deeply in love with
a young man ten years my senior
| see this young man every day
ana know him to speak to. never
neld u conversation with him. as he
does not seem to pay any attention
TO me. ANXIOUS.
l am afraid you have given your
heart unsought and must pay the hu-
initiating penalty. You can't make any
advances further than showing a
friendly interest by asking him to call.
But don't urge him and assume an in
difference you may not feel in extend
ing the invitation. Let him take the
next step toward becoming friends, and
if he never takes it, try to forget him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19
CHAPTER V

Lady Diana Sees Once More Her Artist.
Lord Beverley was worried over some
thing the women Of his granddaughter's
house party had told him They had de-
scribed the course of the otter hunt and
this description had displeascd him ex-
ceedinely though he was at much pains
not to let the women see it, But straight
to Captain Sartoris. whom he instinc-
lively disliked, though he tried to over
come that feeling he went.
"Greville," exclaimed the marquis, 'Tm
afraid from what | hear that you went
trespassing this morning"
"Oh did We" exclaimed Sartoris,
lightly not attaching much Importance to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19
BEWARE OF SURFEIT.

'|OtII VI rs 7 dITIdN.
Kindly inform me if a lady should
allow her fiance to kiss her all he
wishes, and if it is proper for her
to return the kisses. We are en-
gagged, but for no set time.
c. A. B.
The rare kiss is the sweetest.
think if you set a limit on these tokens
.of love your lover viii prize them NOR.
highly.
As for returning them: Don't be too
lavish with your evidences of affection.
When a clerk in a candy store is per-
mitted to eat all the candy he or she
wants, you know what happens on the
third day.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19
Advice to the
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
BLUE FOR GIRLS.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
To settle an argument, would you
kindly tell what colors are used for
babies in sending out birth notices?
Whether it is pink for boys and
blue for girls, or blue for boys and
pink for girls? NJ. A. b.
II is not important which color 10
used, but custom has given blue to the
girl baby and pink to the boy.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19
BY Bertrand Babcock.

copyright, 1912, by Drury Lane Com
pany of America, by arrangement with
Arthur Collins, managing director
Of the Drury Lane theater of
Condon.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
COOPERATION THE WATCHWORD
OF THE NATIONAL DRAIN
AGE CONGRESS.

The object of the Second National
Drainage Congress, to be held in New
Orleans on pril 10-13th, 1912, will be
tn work out a National policy for river
regulation and control, for protection
from overflow, for food prevention,
and for land reclamation by the irri-
CATION of arid lands and the drainage
of swamps and overflow lands, that
will harmonic and unite every section
of the United States in great cam
paign for its adoption by the National
Government.
This policy must be one that will
bring into complete cooperation and
harmony the National Government,
the State and all local districts and
Municipalities in actual constructive
work.
1t must be policy that will clearly
recognize the constitutional limita-
tons of the National Government, and
require of the National Government
that it shall do only such things as
are clearly within those constitutional
Limitations and for which precedents
already exists in legislation hereto
fore enacted.
1t must be policy which will unite
in its support the Ohio River Valley
which requires flood prevention, as
well as navigation-the upper Missis-
sippi River Valley, which requires a
sufficient enlargement of the reser-
voir system on the head waters of the
Mississippi River to regulate the riv-
err flow for navigation and for water
power development,-and the Missouri
River Valley, which requires storage
reservoirs and flood water canals tc
Irrigation protection from overflow
flood prevention, and water power de
velopment.
The precedents already exist for thu
doing of all these things by the Ma
tional Government but its worl
through the different bureaus, service
and departments, lacks cooperation
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
A MODEL POWER STATION
FOR A SMALL VILLAGE

Lewis, Iowa, is a village of but 65O
inhabitants yet it has one of the best
electrical plants in the country. 1t is
located in a rich and fertile section OF
the state Five or six years ago there
was installed an electric light plant in
connection with a mill operated by
water and steam power. 1t was not
very successful and was finally aban-
doned entirely and the mill dismantled
and removed.
To provide the village with a new
plant group of prominent business
men organized a stock company and
build the model plant which is in
operation now. The plant cost but
$4,000, and in addition about $500
worth of supplies are carried in stock
for the convenience of it's customers
The central station is located on Main
street and is installed in a one-story
building. In this building, which is
finished in natural pine with plastered
walls, has been installed a General
Electric 25 kilowatt gasoline-electric
generating set composed of a four
cylinder, water-cooled "a horsepower
gasoline engine direct connec-
ton to three-phase, 1900
volt generator, both connected
on the same shaft and mounted
in the same frame. This little power
plant is practically automatic, being
cranked up like an automobile and
will run indefinitely as long as 1t is
supplied with gasoline. 1t is self-oil
ing and requires no attendant.
Located near the generating set is
a slate switchboard carrying the vari
GUS electrical measuring instruments
and the necessary switches. The en-
CINE Is water-cooled and a battery Of
five galvanized cylinder steel tanks, {
IT. in diameter and It. high, have
: been installed in the back part of the
, building. These tanks are filled will
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
NeDs From the Tripod

and is for that reason inadequate and
wasteful
In the lower Mississippi Valley, if
the National Government will protect
the banks, prevent caving and the
destruction in that way Of existing
levees, preserve and maintain the
navigable channels, construct ade-
uuate outlets and controlling works,
and build the large canals necessary
for navigation and as part of a COM
prehensive drainage system, the rest
of the work for the reclamation of the
swamp and overflow lands will be &C
complished through state, district and
location action.
In the state of Louisiana the recent
decision of the State Supreme Court
sustaining the constitutionality and
validity of drainage bonds issued I'M
der State statutes provides the way
for securing the capital necessary for
the local drainage work, and 1t Is
neither desirable nor necessary that
this work should be undertaken by the
National Government, even though 1t
were within it's constitutional power
It will thus be seen that the object
of the National Drainage Congress
will not be to strike out any new and
radical national policy, but its slogan
will be Cooperation and Harmony.
1t will aim to bring into cooperation
coordinate and harmonious and uni
ted constructive work, all the agencies
which are now at work in an made
quate and disconnected way.
1t is in this work of bringing order
out of chaos, eliminating controversy
and perfecting a broad working plar
which will unite territorially the en-
tire Mississippi Valley from Canada t
the Gulf of Mexico, with the Ohi'
River Valley on the east, and the Mis-
souri, River Valley on the west-a vas
region embracing more than one
third of the entire area of the Unite'
States,-that the National Drainag
Congress so much needs the co-opera
ton by attendance as delegate at it
meeting in New orleans on April II
18th, of every one who would be benz
fitted by the development of the Mir
, sissippi Valley.-Gulf States Farmer
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
Forum of the People

whether we shall have a municipal
system of government under the com
mission, or ward system under a
city council. And this means, shall
the city be governed by large calibre
men selected by all the people, or
small calibre men selected by a part
of the people.
In other words, shall all OF the re-
sponsible officers be selected by all of
the people, or shall part of the re-
sponsible officers be selected by part
of the people, towit: Those living in
each ward, which means ward politics
F., instead of city politics.
And this leads to the necessary,
logical, and correct conclusion that
the commission system is the more
democratic of the two plans, because
under IL all the people select all the
responsible officers, while under the
aldermanic system most of the re-
sponsible officers are selected by only
part of the people.
The commission system is munich
pal manifestation, for urban communi-
ties, of what is known as the short
ballot system" The underlying prime
iple of this system is that the people
ought to elect the responsible officers
This means, of course, such officers
as are vested with important discre
tionary powers, such as enacting laws
levying taxes, equalizing tax values
lincurring debts, making contracts, and
the like.
The converse of this idea, or per
haps ought to say, the corollary Of
IL, 10 that It is not wise that the PEG
pie should be burdened with the cleo
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
A PLEA For PURE AIR.

PLEA run PUNE AIM
Editor The News:
The residents of North Main street
are inhaling nice fresh pure ar for the
first time in years or to speak more
plainly and come to the point in hand
we would say that the fresh air has
only been with us a few days, l. e.
since the damage of the fertilizer
factory by fire. Now, while the pro-
prietors have our regrets in their mis-
fortune, we just want to send our petit
ton to them, that they will in rebuild
ing use a consumer, for why should q
number of people suffer inconvenience
by inhaling obnoxious odors, which
are injurious to children and plant
life, causing humans to cough; plants
and trees to die?
Now we feel sure that these up-to'
date, progressive kind gentlemen will
deem it wise when rebuilding to use
means so well:known to them, where
by people will no longer suffer incon'
venience from obnoxious odors, but
will continue to enjoy the fresh
pure air, the right of every free
citizen and vegetation will grow and
flourish unmolested. A Citizen.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04

was closely contested and there were
a number of bids from this and other
states, but the local concern was able.
to meet all prices, and the officers are
recognized for their capable work.
The first publication of the charter
for the new corporation appears in to-
davis News. The incorporators are
Paul Guerin, E. e. Eslinger and w.
y Esslinger and the capital stock is
$4,000.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT MOST
REPRESENTATIVE.
Editor The News:

Editor The News:
Socrates, the great Grecian philoso-
pher, once said, I'VE ought to be care
full with our definitions, lest we fall
into error" This maxim finds illus
tration in the current discussion of
the municipal commission form"
proposition.
"The commission system" would
perhaps be more accurately express
sive than ''the commission form" for
it signifies a system of government
rather than a mode of governing. The
word form" in this connection, is
used in the same sense that we speak
of the republican form or system of
government.
In discussing the matters involved
in the present campaign we are also
apt to fall into the wholly illogical er.
ror of confusing the commission sys-
tenn with the present commissioners,
and the record that they have made
Whether their record has been good
or bad is question that might per
haps properly enter into an election
Of officers; but II can have no rightful
place in determining the respective
metrits of the commission system and
the Aidermanic system.
If the matter were merely ques
ton Of commissioners or of aldermen
It would resolve itself into mattel
OF the number Of men who are to exer
else dominion in the city hall. But
that is not the entire question, mol
even the vital part Of It.
A still more important question Il
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04

water which is kept in continuous cir
o,,tat,or over the engine cylinders by
means of a pump.
This little plant furnishes lighting
sorvice from dark until II o'clock
dailv except Sunday, when it is eX-
tended until 70 o'clock. Morning ser
vice from :; As to daylight is also pro-
vided. There are in all about Hi!
large incandescent electric lamps m
stalled for street lighting.
For small number Of lamps the
charge for energy per month Is %.
cents for &c c-p. lamp, $l.o0 for two
$3.50 for three. When there are more
than three lamps the circuit Is me-
tered. The meter rate is 10 cent per
kw-hr.
Consumers furnish their own wiring
fixtures and lamps, the company FUR
nishing service connection to the
house entrance. The company has
adopted the policy of wiring houses at
an advance of 10 per cent on the cost
of materials, with a charge of 80 cents
an hour for labor.
Probably the best lighted house Is a
very pretty modern cottage at the cor
ner of Main and Washington streets,
where twenty-three 4o-watt tungsten
lamps are used The attractiveness
of this well.lighted house sets a com
mendable example for others there and
elsewhere. Liberal use of light goes
long way toward solving the problem
of lighting villages and small towns,
and promotes & spirit of progress that
soon puts ,hs town out of the rural
village class. increases business and
enhances property values.
Negotiations are under way foI
operating the town pumping plant BY
means of a motor The town has al
ready bought and installed a 5 h. p
motor belted to a countershaft, and
the company has run a special set Of
primary feed wires from the station
to a pumping plant on Market Square
to provide for this service. The water
is lifted by a pump from a 65 IT. vel
to a water tower on the Public Square
six blocks distant on higher ground il
the old part of the town.
It Is thought that by slight addition
al running time, or by operating few
hours in the day once or twice {
week, the pumping can be done at
saving to the town and a profit to tn,
company The gasoline engine at tn,
J pumping station will be retained 70
auxiliary or emergency pumping ser
vice and probably operated by the CON
pany for the town at about actual cos
of fuel and labor.
There seems little demand IN
place Of this size for day load
! possibility spoken Of by the manage
, ment is that in case of doing tn
= water-works pumping it may be Al
r ranged to run the electric service o
= Tuesdays to care for washing mi
0 chimes and laundry irons, that bein
/ a convenient time for most hous
/ wives,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04

form clerical or mental service, under
well defined rules.
The election of the minor govern
mental agencies by the people not
only conserves no good purpose but
actually and necessarily does harm by
diverting attention from the real Is
sues of the campaign, thereby con-
verting a campaign of essential poll
cies into a campaign of unimportant
personalities:
1t is for this reason chiefly that
place-men always align themselves
against the short ballot system and in
favor of the spoils system. And the
aldermanic scheme of city govern
ment is the very best expression OF
the spoils system with which we are
familiar.
The short ballot system, of which
the commission form is an expression,
not only serves to focus the public
eye on issues as distinguished from
personalities; but it also enables the
people to select better responsible Of
ficers.
Another glory of the short ballot
system is that when the people make
an objectionable mistake, as they
sometimes will do, they can certainly
locate the official delinquency, so as
to rebuke it in future elections.
The short ballot system does not
take away any important rights or
privileges from the people. On the
contrary, it democratizes the public
service, and enables the people to
really govern themselves through the
agency of their responsible represen-
tatives.
Some good people honestly believe
that they can best govern themselves
by dabbling in the title to every Off
cial place, however, unimportant it
may relatively be; but that idea does
not satisfy a fullerknoweldge of the es-
sencials of true popular government
The commissioners in commission
system of municipal government are
the board of directors of the municipal
| corporation. And all well regulated
corporations, private or public, must
have such a board. All the stock
holders cannot efficiently direct the
affairs of the corporation. And the
people are the stockholders in public
corporations.
The commission system is sys
tenn 1t is a system which applies tt
the management of the business at
fairs of urban communities the samt
business principles under which pri
vate corporations are managed witt
signal success all over the country.
The commission system has alread!
passed the experimental stage in sew
eral hundreds Of cities, and demon
strated that it is practical to apply eff
ficient business principles to the pub
lie affairs.
While It has not yet been adopte'
in the metropolitan cities of this coun
try it is in successful operation IL
some of the best governed cities o
Europe, notably GLASGOW and Berlin
A movement has lately been launch
ed looking to its adoption in New Ol
leans; and similar movement l
soon to be inaugurated in Greater Ne'
York. The eyes Of the world are on I
In. view of these facts it woui
seem unwise for us to confess our IL
capacity to govern ourselves alon
: tested and approved business lines. 1
5 abandon the system before it has den
: onstrated its failure, after havin
: adopted it by an overwhelming vot
J. would certainly advertise us as an Vi
: stable people.
George fairfield.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04

for that is what our sugar tariff is and
has been for half century, except the
short life of the Mckinley tariff, which
put rag sugar on the free list and paid
a bounty out of the treasury to the
cane-growers of the South and the
beet-growers of the West, which was
an infamy even greater, if possible,
than the present law, and it would not
have survived moment if the bill had
not told barefaced lie in the title.
OF course the people rejected it as
soon as they got a whack at it, and
perhaps not even in our boundless
assortment of economic knaves and
lunatics can one be found vagabond
enough and crazy enough to suggest
re-enactment of this absurd and
villianous scheme.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
COLE AT HOT SPRINGS.

Hot Springs, Ark, April Am in
vitation golf tournament is in prog
ress here today and will be concluded
tomorrow, as a preliminary to the
championship tournament of the Hot
Springs Golf and Country Club on the
Links here next week, beginning Mon
day.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
CENTRAL ELECTRIC CD.
SECURES GOOD CONTRACT

The Central Electric Company, Hat
tiesburg's newest industry, which
starts out full-fledged, has landed
nice contract almost with the first
day of active business, having been
awarded the wiring contract for the
Presidents Home and Cottage B. at
the big State Normal. This contract
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
THE RECALL.

OF course they approve THE Recall
one and all.
1t isn't mere whim
In Ted, Clifford, and Jim,
To waken the echoes in highway and
hall
On behalf of Recall,
In sunlight and glim.
We're you on the shelf
You'd do it YOURSELF
Just look at the thing and decide
what you'd do
Had it happened to you
When you thought you'd
cinch
That nobody could pinch
On a soft, easy snap for the rest Of
your days,
With no one entitled to question.
your ways;
And then in trice
To slip on the ice,
And find yourself hurled
Out into the world,
All jobless, forlorn,
And treated with scorn,
Where once as a darling, all scented
and curled,
You'd sat on a throne
All your own.
Suppose you had sat in the seat of the
great
And ruled with high hand the affairs
of the State,
And come to believe that the house,
and the chair,
The cellar, the roof, and the furni
ture there,
Forever were yours, lock, barrel, and
stave,
The grass, and the green-sward, piaz
"a, and pave,
And then, while you on an innocent
hunt
For monkey, gorilla, and wild ele--
! phunt
! Another came by,
With cold, icy eye,
And sat in your chair, and slept in
your shack,
And kicked the old hat you had left
on the rack
With both of his feet
Out into the street;
And when you came back from the
junglesome rout,
Refused to get out,
And there in your place,
! Called you "Exi"-to your
face?
My! Wouldn't you bawl
For a speedy recall!
To get your hat back
| On the hook on the rack,
/ With blim, and blam, and buzz.
and biff-
Like Teddy, and Jimmie, and dear lii
E tie Gift!
t Horace Dodd Gastit in Harper's
Weekly.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04

A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF VolLES,
MADRAS, TISSUES, WHITE GOODS,
At MoNEY-sAVlNc PRICES.
SHEL5Y'S.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-04
FREE SUGAR
BY SAVOYARD.

Shakespeare make the great Cardi-
nal, who moulded mighty states de-
crees, respectfully, mournfully, to say,
when adversely comes to him:
Had l but served my God with half
the zeal
served my King, he would not in
mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies
And so Louisiana-had she served
the Democratic party with half the ar
dor she has promoted monopoly taxa
ton, she would not be in dread of free
of competitive" products, sugar is de-
cidedly the best from which to raise
revenue. The consumption of 1t is
enormous in our country-per capita
as well as in total the largest in the
world-and had Louisiana been con-
tent with the Incidental" protection
VI a tdIln Ou sugar lSNcHut
there would now be no more question
of putting sugar on the free list than
there is of putting whisky on the free
list.
But on the tariff question Louisiana
is as strongly Republican as Pitts
burg, Pa, or Lawrence, Mass, and ii
it were respectable to be Republic
can there Louisiana, and not Yer
mont, would be the banner Republi
can state. Thus it came to pass that
when Louisiana had to be a Demo
crat to preserve civilization, she got
to be a Democrat, all right; but g
Randallite. and so for nearly fifteen
years Louisiana has been a depend
ency, and most of her statesmen vas
sails, of the Republican party when
ever the paramount issue in Congress
was the vital one of taxation.