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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-01-22

WANTED-to borrow s6OOO.0O for two
or three years. First class real es-
tate security. Address Box SCI,
Hattiesburg. 20-3t
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g. M. g. a. leabers Agitateh
@nfr 5ubjert of Damrimg
Some in philadelphia Declare in # abor of
Darmless Social Rerreation on Roof
@aroen, gut expect to Gmtoun
ter Objections.

that demand should be encouraged ana
satisfied by the Young Men Chflstian
Association is another question. Our ann
is to aid young men to fight their own
battles, to meet their temptations III
straightforward manly way. VIM dahc-
ing help them to do this? Is TINS IoIln
of social intercourse of permanent prom.
to either young men or young women
Will the effort put into such work ylelu
larger returns than the same eHofl put
into other kinds of work?
THE sex impulse is not the oniy no.
the chief element in social life, put II
can be made the chief element. FOLK
dances games and healthful sports
should all become a part Of the larger
social idea. Young people as Wen as Ola
people require the play life. As COM
munity we have left untouched, we
have not considered, the larger recrea-
tional questions. AS a result. com
mercial agencies have undertaken TO
meet the need, receiving pront Tor
their efforts" :
Mr.. Richard E. Wilson. promoter or
service at the central branch, said:
The Y NJ c. A. has never approved
of dancing. nor has it ever offlcially
forbidden it, but, recognizing the shap-
ing of character in our members as our
chiefest purpose, we must include
dancing in considering the regulation
of their recreations. Personally, view
with pain and alarm the tendency or
our young people generally to indulge
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Office
Nom IN n m Gf m lf m

eel post establishment. the postal savings
bank system-theSe new things have been
of large benefit. I think they can be OF
larger benefit. Experience already has
shown where improvements can be made
in the laws under which they are oper-
ated. and am hopeful that this amenda-
tory legislation will be enacted.
Handling mail for the people nowadays
is business, not politics. That l. why l
want to create well working. contented
and highly efficient machine in our Or
ganiZation. | want
Just then the private secretary silently
placed A great stack of papers to be
signed before the Secretary. mentioning
casually that there We're still seven con
gressmen outside who had TO be seen be-
fore the days work was done.
u want" repeated the Postmaster Cen
eral less vigorously, and looking with al
prehenson at the stack OF papers aud
with just touch of Impotence at the
secretary.
II want"
The private secretary looked hack into
his chiefs face There Was respect htif
frmness. I'm the private sccretary's CO
He did not bulge.
YEARLY the Postmaster General picked
up his pen and began inscribnG that
small. careful signature, -. 5. Burle-
SON.
His voice died away as he grew alb
sorbed in the papers.
Il think" said he finally you had
better see Roper dhe first assistant post
master general lie can tell YOU lot
about the department"
And the interview was over.
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of course, will require congressional ac-
ton. The government takes in about
S162 100000 a year from first-clasS mail.
and it is estimated that about S6200o.090
of this is profit. Hence the organization
of the National One-cent Letter Postage
Association and an agitation for reduc
ton of the letter rate. This is one of the
matters being investigated by the post
masters commission.
The second-class rate is going to come
! forward again. Pubications-newspa
and the like-are now carried in this
class at l cent a pound. The former
Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock.
wanted TO change this, but did not sue
coed 4 commission. headed by Mr.. Jus
tice Hughes of the United States supreme
Court. investigated the matter and re-
ported that the cost of handling ana
transporting secondclass mail was about
6 cents pound. The commission recon-
mended an increase from ! TO cents,
but nothing has been done. Some recon-
mendations from the Burleson commission
are expected.
Rural free delivery is another losing
item in the Post Office Department
finances. 1t is run al a loss of about
SAB 900, 900 year. The commission VIII
talk about this. too
Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock in
his annual reports used to utter burning
words regarding the government frank
ing privilege. He declared that abou;
300. 600 900 pieces of free mail, havins IN
aggregate weight of about 6l.Gta',h0
pounds were handled every year and
he looked hard at Congress When he
said it.
This is a question that Mr. Burleson
probably will deal with himself. in view
of his congressional experience.
IAN these things" said he the other
offhand nor without the light of the full
est information That is why have
named this commission to ascertain the
facts. to study the whole organization OF
the department with view to securing
the largest measure of beneficial service.
Service is what we must look to, not
merely the requirement of revenue. we
have been told that the department has
got to the position where IL no longer is
a losing money proposition, and that II
is paying its way. The commission has
shown that the statement is not ac-
curate But economy should not be the
sole end in view. What the people want
and should have is the very best postal
it whether or not We make both ends
meet
"Of course hope TO conduct the de-
partment without a deficit. but If the
question lies between mourning a deficit
or reducing the character and amount
of service to the people, l would be for
mourning a deficit.
THE Post Office Department is an
agency of the government that comes in
direct and intimate contact with all the
people. The rural free delivery. the par
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change the curse of the fugitive and the
yagabond and henceforth pore upon MS
brow an ineffacable mark OF lnIams.
Judas sold the truth for thirty pieces
of silver: Ananias and Sapphira soid IL
for part of their possessions, ana tneir
names have ever been byword ano a
reproach among men. The most aW1ui
and appalling consequences nave ever at
tended the sale of the truth. Therefore,
sell it not"
1t can never be disposed of or parted
with for any price or any purpose Mitn-
out entailing disaster and loss. mere
, is nothing of permanent value 10 receive
In exchange for it. 1T Is more precious
than silver or gold. and all the thinss
thou canst desire are not to be compared
unto IL"
Buy the truth: labor diligently to Sc
cure it. 1t is
Not found by chance,
Nor waited on the breath Of summer dreams.
But grasped In the great struggle OF the SOU.
Hard buffetny with adverse wind anu s'iean
Though truth comes not by chance or
Indifference, it may be found It's sources
are within US and all around us.
Truth is in each flower,
AS well as in the solemnest things or God
Truth is the voice of Nature and OF Time,
Truth is the startling monitor within US
Naught is without IL, il comes from the SUITS
The golden sun and every breeze that BLOWS.
Truth IL is God and is everywhere
Let not any consideration. any power.
any influence. stand in the way OF your
gaining the truth, and then sell II not.
Sell il not
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Keb. q. 3. Mean Acrepts Call to
manison Anenue M. q.
Cburcb of Aetp pork.
Baltimore Clergyman, 0Mbo Das Often
prearben Dere, 0liu Refeibe Largest
@alarp paib pastor of Dis DE-
nomination in metropolis.

Unlike most New York pastors, DR.:
Mead is not a graduate of theological
seminary. AS a young man he went INTO
a bank at Newark. y. J. Feeling called
to preach he studied theology with his
father who was a clergyman.
Subsequently he entered one of the
universities of New York and was grad
uated Before going to Baltimore he was
pastor of the largest Methodist church III
Hoboken, y. j., and previous to thal
he was for five years at Centenary
Church, Newark. the largest conSrega-
ton in the Newark Conference.
Last spring Or. Mead was called TO
Calvary Methodist Church. New YORK TO
succeed Rev. Charles l.. Goodell, VINO
resigned to take the pastorate OF 81
Paul's Church. West End avenue anu
S6th street DIR. Mead declined. because
he was told that if he left Baltimore al
the time it would seriously interfere
with the campaign. then at ITS height
to raise S1O00,00o for Goucher College
This amount has all been subscribed
DR. Mead is married and has thfee
children. Mrs Mead is very active IN
the Methodist women's missionary So
cieties. They will likely go to their new
church in the fall. At present they are
at Ocean Grove, y. j.. where last month
DIR Mead was the leader of the daily
young peoples meetings
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! be successful fourteen ,ears III con-
sress without possessing the quality
of handling men. No fears need be ex-
pressed for Mr. Bur!eson on this score.
He knows men and he knows politics.
The question most to the front in the
affairs of the Post Office Department
at this time is that of the classification
of postmasters There are something
more than $4,000 fourth class poStmas-
ters in the country. In 1908 the Presl-
dent. by executive order. placed all
fourth class postmasters in the four
teen states lying east of the Mississippi
about $4,000 all told-in the classified
civil service removing them from po-
lltlcal interference.
October Is last President Taft issued
an order putting all other fourth class
postmasterS except those in Alaska.
Guam, Hawaii. Porto Rico and Samoa.
in the civil service. This order affected
about $4,000 postmasters. They We're
divided into two groups. Group en-
braced all postmasters drawing $500
or more and Group all drawing less
than $500 Group \ appointments We're
to be made by selecting one of three
names certified by the civil service
commission after competitive eXamina-
ton. and Group appointments We're
to be made on recommendation of post
office inspectors. with the approval of
the CIV service commission.
To the latter order vigorous opposi-
ton has arisen in democratic circles
Early in his administration Postmaster
General Burleson announced that he
was in sympathy with the general idea
of the Taft order and that his chief
objection to that order was that it did
not go far enough in divorcing post
masters from politics.
Il am not a spokesman. he declared
at that time. These declarations caused
CONSERVATION in many quarters and
are in part responsible for the great
number of congressional visitors the
Postmaster General is now receiving.
Mr.. Burleson has not receded in the
slightest from this early position. But
preliminary to making any specific recon-
| mendations on this or any of the many
other problems. he adopted the course
| of appointing commission to investigate
the whole organization of the depart
ment. This commission consists of three
assistants postmaster general and Mr.. NJ
0. Chance, departmental chief clerk.
First. second and third class post
masters are what are known as presi-
dental postmasters they being named by
the President. There are between 5000
and $500 of these A further extension
of the civil service idea would have to
take in these And that is precisely what
the Postmaster General hopes to accom-
plish. He has let it be known that he
wants before he goes out of office to see
every postmaster in the country under the
civil service.
One-cent letter postage is another mat
ter that is pressing for attention. This,
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Is imperative to the success of such
nolicv ever be instituted. But that these
islands, with no modification OF the
humanitarian policy we have pursued
from the first day OF our occupation ana
to the continued economic betterment %
the people themselves, can be developed
to a point where they are capable OF sup
pIying all the tropical products that VIII
be required by the United states Tor
some centuries to come. is dcmonstrable
by simple mastering OF facts anu
figures.
Our imports from tropical and sun
tropical countries have increased until
last year they footed up close to the
enormous total of S6oo,o1ooo. our eX-
ports to these countries amount to less
than $500 600 900. leaving a balance against
us of over S20O,O0o.o0o. These countries.
as a rule. sell most of their products
to us and use the money for making
purchases in the cheaper markets or
Europe, Germany England, France.
Italy. Belgium and most of the other
European countries maintain favorable
balances with nearly all the tropical
countries, while those countries that sup
ply the United States with sugar. to-
bacco, coffee. cocoa, fibers. fruit. vese-
table oils, silks, spices and the like are
the only ones where We buy more than
We sell.
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in such vulgar and immodest antics as
are incident to barnyard dancing prev
alent lust now Accompanying evils
are inevitable and so we have the pres
ent indecent attire exhibited py
thoughtless women in all manner OF
public places. -
.Sach organizations as ours shoulo
not stand idly by and see innocent rec
reations seized upon and TWISTED lhlo
vicious actions by mercenary and I'M
moral traffickers in young people Inc
stately dancing of our forefathers, IN
Guiding the minuet. reel and Sir Roger
de Coverly. had nothing in them or the
sensuous. The change from the SLOW,
stately measures of 100 years ago to the
frantic and immodest gyrations OF TO-DAY
is appalling to every right-thinking man
and woman, and it should De the outy y,
all organizations looking TO the moral
welfare of young people TO eliminate inns
vicious form of dancing and recreation,
at is with some idea of this in mind
and with the recognition OF the fact that
wherever young people come tose.hee
with music and lew SQUARE e., ,,r
floor space-even though it be, as In our
case a Stag roof-there VIII Always pe
an attempt at dancing. that we pianne,a
our roof garden parties introducing Ioih
dancing We had hoped to arouse lnteI-
est i'm the cleaner forms of this enJoyapie
recreation. 1t is our hope TO pring TINS
about and save our young people from
the desire to indulge in the dread1ui ex-
cesses of turkey trottinS, tango, e.s., lIis-
called dancing. The right kind OF dane
ing makes men more chivalrous, conSid-
crate and serviceable and retains Tor
woman her native modesty and inno-
cence.
II wish that an inquisitorial BODY Oh
the most captious and severe churchmen
and women might have been present at
any of our recent roof garden affairs to
have seen the orderly gathering OF young
men and women conducting themselves
with the utmost propriety, and not De-
ca,Ise of the watchful eyes of score of
chaperons from both the Y. M. c. A: and
the Y w. c. A., but because OF the
wholesome conditions and surroundings
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Signed Newspaper Articles.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
A law requiring all newspaper articles
on election issues to be signed by the
writer was passed by the Australian par
lament two years ago. 1t was enforced
for the first time at general election
at the federal elections last week. The
act provides that from the issue of an
election writ to the completion OF the
election every article, report, letter or
other matter commenting on any candi-
date or political party or the issues sub
mitted to the electors, printed and pub
lished in any newspaper. circular, pam
phlet or dodger. shall be signed by the
author or authors, giving his or her true
name and address or names and ad-
dresses at the end of the matter. Any
newspaper editor or proprietor who per
mits a breach of this rule is guilty Of an
offense under the act
Strictly speaking. the obligation Win
regard to signing is confined 10 CONNECT,
but i'm some of the Australian newspa-
pers ordinary reports OF speeches We're
signed by the reporter, and in the ease
of lengthy speech by number OF re
porters. The practice with regard To
leading articles differed. Thus the sydney
Morning Herald decided to have no lead
ers referring to the election. but printed
special signed articles. -
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he gets time off. goes hunting and
fishing, but the pressure Of politics
has been too much for him for the
past two years and he has had to fore
go his accustomed annual mighty hunt
in the mountains of Mexico. What he
likes to go after is big game. Once
he got giant silver tip down in Mex
leo and he is probably as proud of
that as of winning a cabinet position.
Though a crack rife shot. he does
not scorn the less powerful shot gun.
but has fondness for bird shooting
when he hasn't time to get at the
mammals. Fishing. also, is loved
sport but he wants it in the wild. not
in the tanner environment of the east
and north.
This is the sort of man who has
been placed at the head of what is
said to be the biggest business organ
ization in the world. He has an army
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of 10000 employees under him. He
has to direct the spending of about
$3.50 100000 a year. He takes mold at
a time when the attention of the peo-
ple is focused on the department.
:; Z:
Executive ability. mental and phys
cal strength and a profound know1-
edge of human nature-which is at the
founda ton of all politics-are the quail
tiles essential to the proper conduct
of the office Mr.. Burleson has all
these. Executive ability, it Is true. he
has never had TO exercise n affairs
even approNimating the bisness Of the
Post Office Department. but that abil-
ity in the final analysis, is merely the
ability to handle men No man can
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The human prohibitory laws are di
yected against the sale OF things that are
Injurious and harmful And all such
things should neither be sold nor bought.
Tn the divine law sale is forbidden OF the
commodity that is the most beneficial and
helpful.
All should buy and none should sell
il is possession of such transcendent
value that the owner should never par.
with IT, 1t may be impaired and yet
still retained. IL is kept II 1T is given
away To teach knowledge to others does
NOT lessen but increases our own knowl-
edge.
tirely without getting value received.
There are many who sell the truth for
The honors. riches and pleasures of the
world They make bad bargain. Inc
wealth of honor fades the riches take
wings and fly away and the pleasures
lose their exhilaration and charm
Truth is eternal. and il has no equiva-
lent or substitute for which II can be
bartered Everything is valueiess when
contrasted with truth. Life itself IS not
an equivalent for it. seeming paradox
is mar truth NAV be bought, and yet
there is no equivalent for which IL may
be sold
BUY the truth and sell 1t not
Truth is bought with the currency OF
If sold at all it must be paid for in the
currency of earth. The combined wealth
of the world is not equal in value TO
truth therefore "sell IL not
The prohibition against Its sale has
been in force from the beginning.
Our first parents sold the truth for a
taste of forbidden fruit. and their sad
bargain entailed upon themselves and
their posterity the appalling loss of Eden
and all the peace. comfort and hope that
possession meant to them and 10 the hui
man race.
The prohibition against the sale OF
truth has ever remained in force. 1t is
an unrepealable statute of the divine law.
Cain sold the truth for the fruits of re-
venge For his parting with the great
truth of brotherhood he received in ex-
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5bouln Country Cburrb
Q6ihe Delp to the farmer?
1T IS Mrgen to encourage 1ts parisb=
iouers anb Gstablisb a Real Social
Cfnter.

know how to farm more scientifically.
He needs better income. He needs to
know how to organize with his fellow
farmers to protect themselves against the
inroads of the middlemen and the ten
ants. He needs better markets for his
crops and better transportation facilities
to those markets. He needs a school for
his children that will give them as good
an education as they would get in any
city school, a school that will instill in
them a love of the country, knowledge
of farming and an appreciation of it's
economic significance. He needs more
recreation facilities for the whole family
He needs a handler kitchen for his wife
and daughter and more opportunities for
them to broaden their lives and enrich
their minds in literary and social activi-
ties.
The question is, Should the church give
it? Should it go to Farmer Smith and
say:
Smith. ] am a little ashamed of my
self: | have not been doing for you what
| ought | have been preaching about
Flysian fields and allowing the riches of
blue grass corn and wheat fields to be
suuandered with prodigal hand; ! have
been trying to pave your road to glory
land, but | have paid no attention to your
road to the nearest market | have talked
about mansions in the skies and cared
little about the buildings in which you
and your family must spend their lives
here and now. / have been teaching your
children Gods word In the Bible, but /
have left His word in the rivers and the
hills, in the grass and the trees without
prophet. witness or defender.
Should the Church Step In?
Forgive me, Smith, l am not going to
do il any more / am going to take an
interest in your everyday affairs-your
crops. your stock, your markets, your
school, your lodge and your recreationa
| am going to see If | can help you in
your effort to get your boy started on a
farm of his own I've preached long
time against Sunday base ball; now I'm
sing to try to give your children so much
recreation through the week that they
won't care for it on Sunday. l am 60
ing to take as one of the articles of my
creed. L believe in better roads Tor Smith,
and | propose to have them. am going
To try to save you and your family not
only for paradise, but for America and
American farms.
Should the country church take It's place
shoulder TO shoulder with smith In the
line in which he is battling for existence?
Should il take up the task or encourag-
ing agricultural organizations mat Will
work for more scientific farming, better
roads and better markets? should II
throw open it's doors, not three hours a
week but three hours a day, 10 smith s
sons and daughters that they may have
a place to meet and to play ana 10 min
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- EV. DR. CHARLES l.. MEAD OF
az the First Methodist Church. Bal
~ timore who last week accepted
call to the pastorate of the Madison
Avenue Methodist Church of New York,
it is declared. will receive the largest
salary paid to any Methodist pastor In
that city and as large as any PAID TO
clergyman of that denomination IN the
country. This will be $500 but from
this sum DR.. Mead must rent his own
house.
DR.. Mead has preached in Washington
a number of times, and has many friends
here.
Even the bishops of the Methodist
church receive only 5000 salary, al
though they have an additional allow
ance for house rent and for a stenos-
rapher Bishop Luther B. Wilson OF
New York, besides his salary. receives
81. 500 for rent and $500 for an Office
assistant.
DR.. Mead will succeed Rev DR. wal
lace MacMullen. who. after ten-year
pastorate, resigned to become pro-
lessor in Drew Theological Seminary. TO
which position he was elected last spring.
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~ HE subject OF dancing played an
VI important part during the past
week at an informal meeting OF
officers of Central Branch Y. NJ. c. A. OF
Philadelphia, when a general discussion
Of the recreation problem took place Ell
fort is being made by the heads of the
association to settle upon a constructive
social program for young people. Whether
dancing will form part of this program is
a question still undecided.
THE Y. NJ c.. A. is more concerned
about large and constructive social pro-
gram for young people than it is in an
isolated practice such as modern dane
ing" said Mr.. William 0. Easton, ex-
ecutive secretary.
There is, without question. demand
for mixed modern dancing. but whether