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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
The Divorce Court Has
Orphaned Many
Children.

Yet the land is full Of forlorn
little children who have been or
phaned by the divorce court and
who have no mother, or no father,
or two mothers and two fathers,
and whose arithmetic and morals
are hopelcSsly muddled, and who
wouldn't know whether to respect
father No. or father No. >, or its
old mother or it's new mother, If
anyone should try to teach it the
autiquated command about honor
ing thy father and thy mother
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
Lets Pretend"

the mountains-toot. toot. get off
the track, here comes the en-
CINE"
And the old shaggy dog lay in
the sunshine and bliuked and paid
not the least attention to the
grand lady. in the checked ging-
nam frock and the stubby shoes;
or to the fine parsonage in a blue
denim play dress. and two braids
down her chubby back. or 10 the
great engine that pufted right
under his very nose
But If one Of them should start
TO fan, "woof," the old dog would
be there in a minute to call for
help or TO give help himself
for that is the nature Of the
shaggy dog and he can not help
IT,
Let's pretend" How old DO We
get before we stop pretending. I
wonder? What fun it is-to pre-
tendl
I know a man who is as nom
est as the day-his word is his
bond-anywhere in the city where
he lives, and he pretends, what,
do you think? that he is a thief.
He tells how much he made from
this deal. ana how he got the best
OF that bargain, and looks all
around to see II every one hears
him when he talks He's pre-
tending the .itf.e boy in the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
Family Jars" Too, Are
a Wrong Against the
Child.

To shake q child's faith in the
goodness Of its parents IS to shake
its faith in everything that is fine
and noble. Yet how can you teach
a girl to he pure If it is a matter
of public record that her mother
was light woman? How can you
teach a boy high ideals if his
mother divorced his father for base
conduct? 1t is of these things, and
not their own wrongs, that men
and women should think before
they break the marriage tie.
And it is not alone the husbands
and wives who get divorces that
wrong their children. Those cou-
pies who are continually quarrel
ing and pickering, who flash out
bitter taunts and accusations
against each other in their chill
dren's presence, are equally blame
worthy They also sacrifice their
children on the altar Of their tenn
pers.
Not long ago TN officer in the
Childreu's Court in New York
made the statement that investi-
cation showed that practically ev-
cry truant child and every juve-
nile criminal came from a home In
which there was domestic trouble.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02

1t is tine children who are the
victims Of every divorce. They
suffer financially when they are de-
prived Of the comforts and ad-
vantages that the money their
father earns should give him.
They suffer sentimentally if they
are deprived of the love and ten
derness, the petting and coddling
of a mother. Most of all they suf-
fer morally in being deprived Of
the reverence and respect for their
parents that is one of the most
potent safeguards against tempta-
tion TO the young.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
OUR VACATION
By MINNA IRVING

A LITTLE room beneath the caves,
"A A mirror cracked and bury.
tattered rug that tripped you up
If you were in hurry.
A washstand wobbly on its legs,
A chair, a home creation.
A bumpy bed a foot too short,
And that was our vacation.
nj OSQUITOES, flies and hornets. too
MI That loved to sting stranger.
= And poison ivy hanging out
Its emerald flags of danger,
Tough steak, and garden truck in cans.
scramble TO the station.
A fat and empty pocketbook,
Oh that was our vacation.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
Bv IOHN TEMPLE GRAVES

tftJ Nt'NDNtN II L y " Inn n L
TENDED, in conformity tOith those
stipulGtiOHs, TO MERCHANDISE
IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED
STATES IN THEIR RESPEC.
TIVE VESSELS.
Congress could have provided for
the termination of these trade
treaties, had It so desired, as each
one contains provision for its ter
minatiOn upon due notice at the
will of either party. But Congress
now adds a provisO declaring that
nothing in the subsection shall be
construed as modifying or termi.
mating the terms of any treaty nov
in force. If Mr.. Moore correctly
understands the attitude of foreign
governments with which we nov
have such treaties, they will not
object II foreign nations do not
object, why should certain Of their
superserviceable and overzealous
newspaper partisans in this coun.
try object?
Conforming to Treaties.
Foreign maritime nations natur
ally do not wish the United States
to increase its oversee shipping
Foreign ships have greater oppof.
tunities, as things now are, in our
foreign trade, and foreign nations
are able to increase their naval re
serves. Through lavish subsidies
bounties, subventions and other
expedients, foreign nations have
violated the spirit, If not the let
ter, of their treaties with us that
guarantee to our ships and the
goods they carry equality Of treat
meut to that accorded their own
vessels in their own ports. The
United States has neither objected
nor retaliated, although these *.
pedients have driven American
ships out Of the foreign-carryiue
trade of the United States
If, therefore, the United SJatss
sees fit TO partly revitalize nayiga.
ton laws that have been upon our
statutes since 1889, although sus-
pended for one-half that time, scru-
pulously conforming, however, 10
all of our treaty obligations, who
can reasonably object?
If, later, this nation sees fit TO
terminate the trade treaties under
which the ships of foreign nations
and the goods they carry enjoy
equality Of treatment In our ports
to that which our laws accord our
own vessels, can there be reason
able objection to such action?
We repeat. all Of these treaties
provide for their termination at the
will of either Of the parties thereto
As these treaties must be termi,
mated before this country can sc.
cord preferential treatment to It's
own vessels alone, in its foreign
trade, and as only by limiting such
preference to our own vessels and
their goods shall we be able 20
build up a great American mel
chant marine in foreign trade, Il
is to be expected that the termins
tiOn Of these trade treaties will be
the next great step in the direction
of building up American shippins
in foreign trade.
This step can not be taken TOO
soon for the good Of the United
States and all Of it's people and all
of its interests.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02

~ trade is to-day less than it
was in 1910, although the
value of our foreign commerce has
increased twenty-seven times over
that of 1910.
More than a century ago Amer-
can ships carried over 80 per cent
of our foreign commerce.; now they
carry 8 per cent. Through prefer
ences under our laws for American
vessels, both in import duties and
in tonnage dues, between 1889 and
1850, they carried an average Of
so per cent of our foreign COM
merce during the entire period;
they have averaged 10 per cent
since then, and now carry 9 per
cent.
In their national platforms dur
ing the past decade Democrats
have declared in favor Of the res
toration OF the old preferential
policy.
Not until this year, however,
have Democrats had opportunity to
restore that old and successful pol
icy. But, in the new tariff bill as
1t passed the House, provision was
made as follows:
J. Subsection 7. That dis
count OF per centttm on aU du-
tics imposed 0y this act shan be
aHolCed OF, such goods, lCGres and
merchandise as shall be imported
in UesSeLs admitted TO registration
under the laos Of the United
states.
The United States began, in
1915, to gradually suspend the op-
Grafton of the preferential policy
in favor of American vessels, and
from time to time entered into
trade treaties with other nations
by which it agreed to accord equal
treatment to the ships OF such ma
tions and the goods they carried
as in our own ports We accord to
our own. So, when the above sec
ton appeared in the new tariff
bill, the attention of our State De-
partment was called to these trade
treaties by several of the score of
nations with which we have trea-
ties, and, responding to a request
from the Treasury Department for
an opinion, Mr.. ]. B. Moore, coun-
selor Of the State Department,
wrote a letter on May %, 1913,
quoting from a number of these
trade treaties and conventions, and
saying:
Question of Conflict.
The vOrious stipuJattons above
quoted suffice to shoto the purport
OJ me TGdtU provisions iCttb tChjCh
the proposed subsection is alleged
to conflict, This allegation appears
to he t1eU founded If. As SEEMS
TO BE THE CASE, it is intended
Jy the subsection to GHotC the dis
count on duties ONLY on merchar-
disc imported in american regis
tered UesseIs.
But what if Congress did not IN
tend to enact a section that would
conflict" with existing treaties,
nor limit the discount to merchan-
disc imported in American vessels?
Mr.. Moore tells us:
Governments bdrINg treaty stip-
UJGtiOnse Nth the United States
Such as those above quoted PROB
ABLY WOULD NOT OBJECT to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
John Temple Graves
A Test of Good Faith
Of Foreign Nations

If the United States Sees Fit to
Partly Revitalize Navigation
Laws in Our Statutes Since
1889, Although Suspended
Half the Time, Scrupulously
Conforming to Treaty Obliga-
tons, Who Can Object?
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10

%turcr's personal assertion that he has
complied with tho law"
What on earth has all this pure
food" agitation been, about, anyway,
II it Is 10 afford the public no pro-
lection, asks the Kansas City Jour.
nal? Or. Wiley. recently in charge OF
the bureau Of chemistry Of the depart.
ment Of agriculture, claimed credit
for getting the pure food law passed
in the interest of the public. and
when he resigned It vas asserted that
the food manufacturers had exertcd
improper influences to make his OIL
cial life a burden. Yet. II the pure
food law does not guarantee the
quality Of food registered under it,
what good is it to the people? If all
there is to this law Is to allow the
manufacturer to make a personal as,
scrtion" that he has complied with
the law, 1t is no better than the manu-
f%acturers' personal assertion that
his product is pure. The pure food
law was hcraldcd as an important
Of reform. Politicians fell
all over themselves trying to secure
some Of the credit for passing that
law and now We are solemnly told
that the law offers no protection to
the consumer. The department Of
agriculture tells the public to exam.
inc goods labeled guaranteed just as
carefully as any other kind"
The admonition for the people 10
examine" the goods they buy is
largely nonsense. The average house.
wife has no way Of determining the
quality OF most of the manufactured
food. The general impression was
that the government offered some
kind Of guaranty that inspected food
was pure. The government is very
careful to see to it that whisky bot.
tied in bond under government i'll.
spection is as represented. That pro.
tects the whisky drinker. But he who
buys food guaranteed under the food
and drugs act" will have to take the
same chances as before.
The unhappy consumer has no way
to turn. All Of this agitation and
excitement about the government
guaranteeing pure food has come to
nothing. Here is one more example
of reform" that doesn't reform. The
manufacturer OF catsup may continue
to put Jul a combination of potato
pulp axle grease and red ink and
guaranteed it under the pure food and
drugs act" offering the consumer the
choice of either taking the manufac-
turer's word for it or of carefully 'ex-
aiming the same to see that it is
as represented.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10
Cheaper Cost Of Distribution
viii Lessen Cost of Living

, pertinent stations how are we to get
tails knowledge, this thought? And
how else are we to get It into mar
ket? "a
Well, we have good men who are
not wise enough to entirely solve the
, problem but they are doing all they
can to make these thoughts and en-
periments OF worth to the people and
they are making Roadway But are
they doing it in the wisest way? Or
are they doing it in the way their
fathers did it merely FOR want OF
knowledge Of a shorter and less cost
~ method? '" ~ o
One way is to print this knowledge
in a bulletin or paper and send 1t TO
! some other college man and let hun
read what has been written and let
him criticisc 1t and pass 1t on to
| some one else and then send a few
| of these papers to the farmer to read
! and to gain great profit thereby. But
what profit does the farmer gain? IT
was written in n style, If not a Ian.
guage, he does not understand. AT
any rate in words in which he cannot
think. This Is marketing a product
| ut a terrible cost. IT Is worse than
the Nebraska farmer sending the sec
ond bushel to insure the delivery of
the first. 1t is costing too much.
Yet it is a necessity and what are
We going to do about It? When we
get a little more wisdom, even II less
knowledge, We will do it in a more
sensible way. 8
~ Al Too Close iiRan9s
4 few years ago a man was taken
sick and when the doctor came In
the patent vas 1Aot looking to the
doctors liking. '!Suspednng smallpox
the doctor madeoa hasty excuse that
he wanted something and as hastily
left the room. Going to his office
he buttoned his storm coat up to the
chin and taking his .ane went back
to see the patent and standing as
far of as possible he leaned over
as far as he could and felt the pulse
with the farthest end Of the cane.
That is our trouble today. We are
not near enough to the people that
We must supply with the knowledge
so extensively produced. -,
Our colleges are doing a great
work, the same with our experiment
farms, and many other worthy III.
stituti9ns. But they are too far
off. 'NOur:. great farm papers and
'ffna gaz:n1sa are doing a noble work
Hlllts. sometimes they arc doing it in
al Did %antiquated way.
Dc It In the First Person
Only a few days ago the writer
and W. c. Allen, business manager
of the Dakota Farmer, yer discuss
ing this subject and Mr.. Allen admit.
ted that great writer's, would write
and teach In the first person, instead
Of the third. and get closer to the
reader the effect would be so much
better than it is nov that the bene.
fits would be instantaneous and be.
yond belief. 49, e..
One OF the greatest experiment
farm superintendent Of the nation
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10
O TAX TlNkERlNG.

ST. Louis Globe Democrat. The
Democratic struggle with the propos.
ed income tax is leading into strange
paths. 1t is now proposed to Gu, the
amount to be expended from $4,000
to $4,000, which would more than
double the number to be taxed. But
the provision is added that a married
man with a dependent wife. or a mar.
ried woman with a dependent hus.
band. shall be allowed an exemption
of $1,000 more; also $500 additional
for a minor child living with and de.
pendent upon a taxable parent, with
certain other details. This special
tax on bachelors and the childless is
in line with certain s~ocialistic ideas
in classifying society. and accords
with the theory that the size Of popu-
lation is nor important than the
quarity. Before the ci-il war ended
an income tax was collected. but it
was discontinued after the emergency
passed, and socialistic notions had no
place in the law.
When a socialistic abstraction is
embodied in a statute some curious
results follow. Ohio has recently
passed a law pensioning the mothers
of families under certain circumstan-
ces. A woman with fifteen children
living in a Kentucky border town has
moved over into Ohio and applied for
a pension. She states that one OF
her %neighbors in Kentucky, with ten
children, will soon join her, and tine-
ly notice is served of another appli-
cation for the new pension. Mixing
an income tax with the question OF
socialistic pensions or other allow
ances, with disabilities for bachelor.
hood. is a new and not pleasing de.
paTture for ~level-headed Americans
with a liking for practical common
ense and simplicity in the business
Of ~lawmaking for nearly 100, 600 DOG
people. The Senate committee has
fOundered into a bog where every
step will carry 1t deeper.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10

One Of the greatest complaints OF
this age is the high cost OF living
1t is claimed that tho high cost OF
living comes more from the "high
cost" Of distribution than from inc
actual cost of production.
A few years ago II a Nebraska far
mcr wanted to deliver a bushel OF
corn In Chicago he had 10 start an
other bushel along to pay the way OF
the first bushel and sometimes Dotn
stopped short Of Chicago unless patt
of the third bushel went along. inns
was in the days OF cheap corn ana
high freight rates a quarter OF a cen
turv ago. But the proposition holds
good now on many products other
than corn while on the way from inc
| smallest part OF this expense often
is the freight. Dut the expense is
there just the same. "
Need Of Great Central Markets
/ What We need is to reduce the cost
Of getting the food from the farm OF
garden to the table of the consumer.
| The farmer is, not getting too much
| for the grain and other food products
that he rows. Neither is the rail.
road getting such a large percentage
| Of the cost OF distribution rs is often
| claimed. Our long range expensive
methods Of doing business are greatly
1T fault. We must have great cen.
ltral markets with cheap means or
! delivery to overcome this great cost
OF marketing. 49,.
Il Costs TO Market lmmaterial Things
But the object of this article is
| not 10 80 into the marketing OF grains
or other produce. the above was writ
| ten merely TO get a base for compare.
| SOL. There are other things to mar
ket as we'll as produce. And the
cost is in proportion. Thought and
| knowledge have to be used before
they are Of real value just the same
as food. ana much in the same mon.
ner. Ideas must be produced. thought
must be furnished and then comes
the marketing of ideas just as much
as the marketing of mutton.
Great Central Thought Factories
Our universities and colleges are
only great thought factories after all.
We send our boys and girls to these
places for what else save to gather
together thoughts? This a be en-
pressed in many other ways but the
result is about the anne when all is
and done. Well, this is a pretty ex-
pensiye way OF marketing thought.
In this school, 10 which We have sent
tina, which is dearest 10 is and the
very best product of our times, We
expect. and ne are entitled to much.
But is it not costing much also. This
thing OF marketing ideas is expensive.
Here in these universities and col
ieges ne have good men helping to
| generate thought and TO put it into
usabie :orus. Here are noble self.
/ sacrificing men who spend the day
! in experimenting and the night in
| trying to evolve a plan whereby the
knowledge thus derived from this ex.
| pertinent may be of use 10 mankind
Expensive.
Yes.
Bus without our colleges and ex.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10
TODAY IN HISTORY

W July 10. .
1704-The fortress of Gibraltar tax.
en- by the British.
17S0-A large force of French sold
iers under Rochambeau arrived
at Newport to aid the Ameri'
cans.
179O-Congress decided to meet at
Philadelphia for ten years, II
thereafter on the Potomac.
1792-Captain Frederick Marryat, the
famous writer of sea stories,
born in London. Died at Lang
ham, Eng, Aug. 8, 1S4S.
1S2O-Gen. Andrew Porter, a distin-
guished soldier Of the Mexican
and civil wars, born in 'Lancas-
ter, Pa. Died In France, Jan.
3, 1872.
1S32-First steamboat arrived at Chi
cagO.
lS46-Col. John c. Fremont became
governor of California;:
1912-The Colonial Institute in Lon
don gave a banquet in honor OF
:: Robert l.. Borden, the Canadian
premier.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10
Written By j. X. Doran,
Editor Of Agriculture,
Bismarck Tribune.

said that Car experiments are no.
as valuable as they should be ana
| sad that whe M bulletin was wrlt
ten the writer was not looking at the
farmer that was to be benefited but
Of some cause to bolster up or think
ing of what some other college mar
would say in criticism or praise OF
the paper, or perhaps he would DC
months in preparing copy, when the
people were suffering for want Oh
the results of the experiments, and
the farmers we're paying the taxes to
enable these bulletins to be written
Too much feeling OF the pulse
with the cane.
Can Our Papers Correctly 'nterpret'
The greatest conveyors OF know
ledge today is our newspaper press
Eut are our newspaper writer's train
cd properly for this side OF the case?
They know the game well in most
instances but what do many Of them
know Of farming? And especially
farming as il should be in this grea,
| northwest where conditions are so
different from what they are In the
boylood home Of these newspaper
men. There are a few OF these
newspaper that know the facts and
know how to tell them but their tram
ing has often been along Othr lines
and while they are doing more in
this field than any one else, are
tho ydoing all that is needed to be
done? .
Noble Work by Better Farming As.
%sociations ~
Our bankers and our business men
in general are doing much but are
they close enough to the people to
do all that is to be done, and even
if they do these things, may 1t not be
said some day that these people have
put the farmer under obligations and
when some legislation or other thing
is need that the farmer must repay
the obligation? This would be OK.
pensive distr. button Of ideas should
such a thing happen.
The Better Farming Associations
are doing q wonderful work and are
experimenting the colleges and ex.
p%erimenting stations and deserve all
the credit that may be given them
and they are getting closer to the peo-
pie and thereby more effective.
Our farmers institutes and chau-
tauquas are all kindred interests are
doing a great work and ere reaching
down and getting hold of the people
in a way that will bring great and
lasting results. The railroad compan-
les that are sending out these spe'
cia! trains arc doing much in this
general plan. But again the cos,
Of distribution comes in and this is
the problem that must be solved.
Something Must Be Done
We must not think of %lessening
the work OF our colleges, we must
not try to get less work from our va
r..ous associated line Of the producers
of thought-our great thought fac
tories-but we must try some way to
sc; this production at a greater ra'
ito and at the same time at a cheap
er rate Of distribution. -
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
Theodore Marburo.

Theodore Marburg. who received
the appointment of United States min.
lister to Belgium from President Taft
last November, was born in Baltl'
more, Md, July 10, 1862. He received
his schooling at Johns Hopkins Uni.
versity, at Oxford, at the Paris school
Of Political Science and at Heldel-
berg university. Mr.. Marburg Is
widely known as an international
peace advocate and publicist. He is
the author Of several books on poll
teal and international subjects, was
chairman of the executive committee
of the American Peace Congress in
1911, and has served as resident Of
the Maryland Peace Society and soc.
rotary of the American Society for
the judicial settlement of Information.
al disputes.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-10
Congratulations to

Finley Peter Dunno ("Mr. Dooley")
46 years old today.
Adolph Busch, st. Louis brewer and
philanthropist, ~ years old today.
Rt. Rev. Henry D. AYES, Episcopal
bishop Of Mexico, 60 years old today.
Samuel Wendell Wiiliston, profess
sor Of puleOntOlogy at the university
of Chicago, 81 years old today.
George Fred Williams, for many
years a leading figure in politics in
Massachusetts, 81 years old today.
Rear Admiral W. II. RI. Switzerland
U. S. n, 81 years old today.