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the law but, here as elsewhere, IL is not
enforced, because it is not very intelli-
gently constructed. The value of rest
upon the identity of the day chosen,
although it would be well if all of us
could rest at the same time and quit
an atmosphere of rest at once even to
all cars and mills and furnaces. Since
this is impracticable. it is worth while
to require of all employing concerns that
they shall not burden the life of their
employe by making improper drafts upon
his vitality through refusal to allow him
a seventh days respite. The daily toiler
gets a respite every night or day, and
the fatigue-exhaustion Is overcome But
Haegler's chart shows that this daily
cessation nevertheless fails to prevent a
steady depression of forces unless it is
corrected by a recurring rest day, once
a week. The modern statistician finds
himself supporting the social science Of
auCient Hebrew laws. 1t Is physiologi-
cally necessary that workers have sey-
enth days rest. or they will wear out
before their time. The old south knew
this The new south is tempted TO ig-
more it. and TO deal less generously with
her sons than the old south dealt with
the slaves. For all the way from Maine
to California American workmen are be-
ing robbed of their rightful Sabbath,
guaranteed by the old laws that are writ
ten upon the constitution OF the human
race. The nation sets an example for us
not to follow The civilization of the
south has elements worth preserving I'm
the new age, and this is one Of them. Can
we not enact a law that can be and
shall he enforced, securing the rights
of all working folk to day Of rest +?
or must we walt and loiter till indus
trial interests dominate us, and force
our consciences TO accept as necessary
what is only necessary to big dividends
?. SO far as l have been able to dis
cover there is as yet little manufacture
in this state which involves the con-
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on January 3, 1861. With his eoarse
at Marietta still uncompleted, Mr.. Har-
rison enrolled in the service of the
state and was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the first regiment of
Georgia regulars. In the spring of that
eventfui year, while yet war was un-
declared, he was detailed by Gov. Jo-
seph e. Brown. Georgia's war COVER
nor" as cammandant of the Marietta
Military institute, where he was en-
abled to prosecute his course to com
pletion.
Rejoining the First Georgia regulars.
he became its adjutant, and went with
the command to Virginia. He partici-
pated in the earliest fighting of the war,
was with his regiment at the affair at
Bangley's farm, and in other brushes with
the enemy. In the winter of 81 and go,
lie was commissioned the colonel of the
Fifth Georgia regiment Of state troops,
and was assigned to the protection of
the coast OF the state for six months,
when the regimeDt was reorsanized for
regular service in the Confederate army,
with the retention of Colonel Harrison as
its commander, his command now be-
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II has been exactly 400 years since Vas
co Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pa
cihc ocean.
This year, as a sort of gigantic quad
ricentennal of the event, we are prom
ised the opening of the Panama canal
Through the range OF hills on which
Balboa stood the big ditch will bear the
worlds commerce from "sea to shining
sea. "
The Panama canal has been the dream
of centuries. 1t was only made an ac-
complished fact when a race came inn
patient of dreams and eager for deeds
The actual work has occupied but few
more years than the dream did centuries
Immense obstacles had to be overcome.
There are always obstacles to any worth
while work.
Hundreds of millions Of dollars had to
be raised. tens of thousands of workmep
had to be procured, hundreds of machines
had TO be created and set In place. great
engineers had to be put in charge,
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1 \ enemy which we have fought
Il at ports of entry and on our far
4 \ frontiers has suddenly appeared
In our very midst The dread invader
Is trachoma. It's victims we have long
seen among Alaskan natives. our own
reservation Indians. and the immi-
grants at our gates. But now We find
that the disease has stolen a march
on us and made our own American
stock its prey. The foothold It has
gained puts 1t in a position TO menace
the nation.
Down in the beautiful mountains Of
Kentucky live a people of the purest
American ancestry. Stalwart, brave. en-
during, unmixed with other blood, they
show the sturdiness of the pioneers
who followed Boone to the virgin wilds
beyond the ranges. The mighty train
of American development has swept by,
leaving them side tracked, forgotten.
neglected, in the hills of their adop-
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But with Perseverance and enthusiasm
the task can be accomplished.
Trachoma has been found most de-
structive among the American Indians,
particularly among those leading a
reservation life In some OF the reser-
vations in the southwest traehoma is
found in from 65 per cent of the In
dians. over 5000 Indians were treated
in 1911 for trachoma and at the ira
choma hospital of the Indian service
at Phoenix. Arizona. over SEQ We're op-
Grated upon and treated.
DR.. M. II. Foster in a report to the
Secretary of the Treasury on January
23, 1912, stated that of 1864 Alaskan
natives examined by him, 1875 per cent
had some eye trouble and ~ per cent
from all parts of Alaska suffered from
trachoma. In some sections OF the
southwestern portion OF Alaska the dis
ease was present in 20 per cent of the
native population. DR.. Foster urged the
great need of a government home for
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tlnct features and affects the majority of
these states. It includes:
!. A law to provide one days rest in
seven.
2 A law to protect workers from lead
poisoning.
8. A law to extend the uniform reporting
of industrial accidents and occupational
diseases.
4 Laws providing for the automatic
compensation of workmen. (a) Federal
employees. (b) all working people under
state investigation of accidents and oc-
cupational diseases.
.. Laws securing protection for working
women from needless waste of physical
power, by long hours and bad conditions
of employment, etc, in all states.
6. Laws providing for efficient factory
inspection in all states.
The Review has for its frontspiece a
map of America, showing the states which
do or do not provide efficient factory
inspection. Those states which insist on
civil service requirements in factory in
spectors are colored red. There are five
of these, New York, New Jersey, Massa-
chusetts, Illinois and Wisconsin. Those
states which require that the factory in
spector shall have practical experience
and knowledge of factory life are marked
blue. They are four in number: Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky and Minnesota. All
other states are marked black, which
indicates that they have no legal require
ments of technical training in their fac
tory inspector.
1t should be said, however. that at
least one state, marked black, has a fac
tory inspector who is adequate for the
task, our own DR.. Oates, who also in
cudes inspection of jails and almshoBses
with that of factories. This, however,
means that one or two men have too
much ground TO cover, though II also
means that our condition is not fairly
indicated either by our color on the map
or by the laws on our statute books.
l. Concerning the day of rest we have
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body is to have beautiful thoughts. a
beautiful character and health.
Why do women OF the twentieth century
mar their faces with paint9
Savages do the same, but we are sup
posed to have passed the savage stage.
A lady one day meeting an overpainted
girl on Broadway said rather sharply.
Wash your face"
Many physicians have testified that
powder and paint stop the pores, roughen
and poison the skin and so produce ugli-
ness in the attemptto force beauty.
No man of good taste, real insight and
appreciation was ever pleased by paint
ed face. If his innermost feelings were
known 1t only revolted and disgusted him.
Some teachers, to discourage the use OF
paint, urge athletics. They testify that
girls who play basketball, row, walk or
take healthful exercise soon get rid of the
nonsense.
There is nothing more lovely than a
beautiful woman There Is nothing more
horrible and ugly than an overpainted
one.
Paint does not conceal ugliness, but
rather ucccntuatcs and advertises 1t.
1t requires cal artist TO paint a beau
tlful picture, hut most of the face paint
ers are mere amateurs and daubbers
The real artist conceals his art until il
seeufs pure nature, but the face painters
do not conceal their paint.
Nature is more beautiful than all her
imitators II may seem an extreme state-
nent, but 1t is ar honest belief resulting
from long observation that no woman's
face WIS ever improved by smearng
grease and naUr upon ii. l think most
men share this view.
Cleanliness. heath, exercise, right diet
and good thoughts are the secrets of
beauty. If any artificial aid Is used let it
be the face massage. Anything beyond
this is vanity that defects its own ends.
Paint and powder constitute an attempt
to obtain admiration under false pre-
lenses.
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to hide in their relations with employees.
though so many splendid examples may
be found of men who welcime investi-
cation. The new conscience takes the
form in part of a desire to know the
cash of production in terms of COM
munal welfare. including provision for
all who suffer by production. And
since the eternal forces of nature have
deoreed that Alabama shall be an in
dustrial state, laws requiring uniform
reports of accidents and diseases de-
veloped by tho occupations of indus-
trial life should surely be enacted here.
only thus can comparison be made with
our competitors or the cost of pro-
duction computed.
1. Many have discussed worlSmen' s
compensation laws. All that needs now
to be done is to enact them in such
form that they shall work without the
Interference of the cheap "shyster,'
who has been getting most of the adj
vantage of the present anarchy. All
the world has them. Only his free
DOM stands in the way of the Ameri-
can workmen's adequate protection.
Whereat the devil and his angels poke
one another in the ribs and mutter the
sacred word: "Freedoml" with gibing
lips.
Something is needed In the direction OF
trustworthy information. 1t is not only
occupational diseases and accidents that
need TO be reported, but progressive de-
velopments of safety devices. sanitary
provisions, extent of home industries, the
sanitary conditions under which all work
is done. A commission In this and other
southern cities should be reporting all
available facts, especially upon the wage
and working conditions of the negro and
of the white man and woman in competi-
ton with the negro. What is considered
desirable by the association for labor leg
slation Is a broad and authoritative man
ner of acquiring facts and classifying
them concerning industrial hygiene.
6. Alabama is among the backward
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reeted defects Of vision, adenoids and
enlarged tonsils and hoolxworm infee-
tion are common The unkempt and
neglected condition of these children
Is pitiable. Many are mentally back
ward and defective The typical noun
taineer, however. is usually intelligent
and wide-awake even though Hitter
ate.
The social and economic needs of
these mountaineers of Kentucky, Ten
nessee. Carolina and Virginia are be-
ginning to be recognized. But it has
remained for DR. John MeMullen OF
the federal public health service to
call attention to a most serious dan
ger now menacing them. In a recent
investigation he found traehoma pres
ent in an alarming and unsuspected
degree and the blindness and defect
i've vision resulting from 1t responsible
for an inealculable impairment of So
cial, economic and intellectual eff
cheney.
Trachoma is a communicable disease
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coming the Thirty-second regiment of
Georgia infantry. The regiment was as
signed to service at Charleston, where
IL remained until near the close of the
struggle. Though still ranking as colo
nel. Harrison was in command of a bri-
gade about Is months during the years
'6S-el. The three brigade commanders.
Generals Hagood, Colquitt and Colonel
Harrison, commanded, by turn on Morris
island, during the large part of the siege
of Charleston. When the assault was
made on Fort Wagner on July p, 1868
Colonel Harrison was speedily sent to re-
inforce the garrison, and arrived in the
nick of time, saved the fort and put
to flight the assailants. In contest of
several days On Johns Island, he was in
complete command of the Confederate
forces, and here he won distinction by
his coolness, courage and strategic abil-
ity After the final fan of Wagner Colo
mel Harrison was assigned to a separate
command with headquarters at Mount
Pleasant, part of his command still
garrisoning Fort Sumter over which the
Confederate colors fioated till February,
1866.
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member of the constitutional convention
of Alabama, serving In the same capacity
In his adopted state, in which his honored
father was serving at the same time in
Georgia. Then followed his election to
the state senate. IN 1880. he becoming the
president of that body in 80. serving two
years. In '92 he was chosen a delegate
TO the national democratic convention,
and in '9i was chosen to fill the unexpired
term of the Hon. w. c. Oates who had
become governor, the district indicating
at the same time his choice to succeed
himself two years later.
AS distinguished Mason, General Har-
rison is the chairman of the committee
on Masonic Jurisprudence of the grand
lodge of Alabama. The United Confeu
crate veterans nave shown ther appre-
citation OF General Harrison by choosing
him in 12 successive elections as major
general of the Alabama division. In 1917
he was chosen, at Macon, Ga, lieutenant
general of the army of Tennessee depart
ment which position he now holds. A
man now of 72, he resides at Opelika, as
the chief counsel of tho Western of Ala
bama railroad.
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TN recent work. the title Of which
Social Life of Virginia in the
y Seventeenth Century" is presented
the history of the original families of
repute which emigrated from England
TO the Old Dominion. among the names
of which appears that of Harrison.
From this family have come two Pres
idents of the United States as well as
other distinguished citizens in differ
ent states of the union Gen. George
Paul Harrison of Opelika is descend
ant of that original Virginia stock
which was so conspicuous in laying
the foundation stones of the state on
the shores of which landed the first
English colony. The name of Harri-
son is found mentioned in distinguished
connections in many OF the southern
and western states.
Gen. George Paul Harrison, the sub
ject OF the present sketch, was born
on the "Montieth Plantation" near Sa-
vannah, Ca, March 10. 1S41, and bears
his fathers name In full The father
was, for many years, prominent in
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of the eyelids which IL untreated. usu-
ally progresses to blindness and prac-
tieally always causes interference with
vision. Among 1000 persons examined
Dr .McMullin found that 500, or 121s
per cent had traehoma. From to IS
per cent Of the school children were
affected. One of the important factors
in the spread of the disease is the COM
mon family towel. Most of the cases
receive no treatment and each case be-
comes a local focus of eontagion. 1t
appears that the disease must be of
long standing in these mountains, and
that 1t is getting progressively worse.
Trachoma is chronic and persistent.
Treatment for it must be long con-
tinued and carried on with nnremit-
ting care. To prevent it's spread among
the southern mountaineers. DR.. Me-
Mullen emphasizes the need of a cam
paign to show the Importance of SAN
itation. fresh air, clean homes and per-
sonal hygiene. Stereoptiean lectures in
public buildings and schools will help.
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A concerns her protection of her
"a own sons and daughters, Dame
Il \ Columbia is very stupid and
careless mother. Recent visitors from
Germany have marvelled that American
factories are so ill-equipped with pro-
tectiYe devices. It is only the other
day that the matches we all use ceased
to be stained with the blood of the
workers. On railways and in mines we
slaughter more people than any other
nation. This, the greatest republic Of
all time. whose boast it is that she alone
secures to the earth government of
the people, for the people, by the peo-
ple," has been and is the most indif-
ferent to the wholesale manning and
killing of the people.
Just for dollarsi Just because the
protection of the worker seems a heavy
tax on manufacturers profits. All our
boasted democracy was proving fustian
and hypocrisy so long as we were con-
tent, as Mr.. Bryan put it, to cruelty
man upon the cross of gold. While au-
tocratic Germany and old, king-vener-
ating England, and all Europe even to
Bulgaria and Spain, were progressively
safeguarding their toilers, making
treaties to comparatively shelter their
women folk from over work, this land
of the free and home of the brave was
hestatingly watching the greedy eyes
of Mammon, listening for his forbid
ding roar. She should have been hear
Ing the cry of the wounded. workers in
thousand mines and mills. She
should have been wiping the eyes of
10000 widows and their babes. But
along with her unmatched volumes of
private, generosity and beneficence,
America was jealously unwilling to pro-
vide legislative guardianship of the
weak and dependent
But this is of the past. A better spirit
has supervened. Cities are making war
on dust and smoke and bad housing.
Social education is looming upon our
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states in provision OF protection for her
women in industry. She puts no limit
upon the number of hours per day or
per week during which girls may be re-
quired to stand at the ironing board or
at the counter. or to drive the sewing ma
chine, or to tend the telephone, or to ply
any other trade. Many western states
are in the same condition. but among
southern states-Georgia, the carolinas,
Tennessee, Louisiana, Virginia, KEN
tucky-have gone ahead of us. as have
California, Washington, Utah, Colorado,
Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and
Minnesota in the west. The movement
is towards a stronger generation of
children by the simple art of conserving
the physique of their mothers; and thu
| inspiration of the movement is the larger
| religious patriotism which has been born.
| 1t is safe to say that % years hence
this generation of Alabama people will
F, be reclSoned crude and barbarous in its
provisions for the welfare of women. For
| it is crude and barbarous, only 1t takes
| a community centuries to see itself In the
| mirror Of fact
! Z. And yet sudden legislative leaps are
| to be deplored and suspected. 1t is not
enough to have beautiful laws written un-
| less they create the force that will ap-
| ply them. Georgia, for instance, has no
| inspector to enforce the factory law,
though she claimed In L-9 no fewer than
| 104.5SS wage earners.
The point for thoughtful and progress
| sve minds Is that today is the day of
preparation, that we IN aHf
may be as happy, as we'll y aaaieass
as we'll housed and as We Hala. Af
| the people in other seetiorz ia45
but as eternal justice anc eternal iess
require on our behalf. Clos5l enH
draw the days of vast con ie nee
lations in this southern land. Shall they
crowd upon us to their own degradation
and ours. or shall they come TO a land
of equal laws, of equal opportunity. of
real democracy. because in social spirit
as well as in physical environment this
| is ''the sunny south?"
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blind natives IN Alaska and the pro-
vision of some trade or occupation 70
relieve their present pitiful condition
Among immigrants 2504 cases of ira
choma were certified in the fiscal year
1911. At Ellis Island alone us cases
were certified. Considering ths DitifuI
conditions into which the disease
throws its victims, the serious extent
to which 1t Is already prevalent in the
country, and its economic and social
menace, effort 10 prevent the entrance
of now cases and the establishment of
new foci of contagion becomes imper-
ative.
Trachoma has been shown to be q
public health problem of national con-
Germ. Prompt, persistent and energetic
measures must be undertaken by local.
state and national health officers to
check its further spread and to erad-
icate II where 1t is already present.
Exclusive Service the Sunday Press Bu-
reau.)
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TIME Clean Language league of Amer
lea is making campaign against
! the use of profanity, suggestive
words, certain ragtime songs and slang.
So far as profanity, vulgarity and some
of the ragtime music are concerned, the
leagues work should be applauded.
Perhaps also as to some of the slang ex-
pressions. But let them not become pur-
lists and old fogies in censoring everything
called slang.
Some of these slang phrases are most
expressive and alive.
They are the new minted coin of speech.
All language in the making is called
slang by some people.
Shakespeare wrote in the slang of his
day--that is, in the language that was
new-and his words have become classic.
The slang of today is the dictionary of
tomorrow.
In this progressive age there is no need
to become afraid of thing simply be-
cause it is new, even though it be new
phrase.
The idioms of each language were at
one time its slang. Yet it is these idioms
that give it character. piquancy and life.
Much Of the slang Of today will die. of
course. 1t ought to. But not all of IT..
sors capable of saying just what words
and phrases will die and what will live.
There is a higher court-that of all the
people, and not only those now living,
hut those yet to be born.
Language is not marble statue the
same yesterday. today and forever. Rather
Ii is a lake. ever in motion and fed by
springs. Words are constantly dying or
becoming obsolete, ana others are being
born. Very many of these baby words
and phrases we call slang.
Others are made up by scientists or 9TH
srs from impossible Greek and Latin COM
blnations. The slang ones have at least
the advantage of being shorter and hence
better.
The slang of each age fits the activities
and thoughts of that age What could
be more expressive than making good -
delivering the godos' or ''on the job?"
Not elegant perhaps, but vital
Don't dam the springs that bring living
waters into the lake.
Each day and each community has its
own story of some humble hero or heroine
who offered his or her life for others.
Many Of these tales never see print. 9th
ers are told only in the local papers and
do not reach the great world beyond. A
few, perhaps, receive mention In the city
papers.
That Is because such deeds are beeom-
ing common We are taking the words
aud example of the Nazarene so into the
very fiber of our lives that self sacrifice
is expected.
One of the latest tales concerns Joseph
Dube OF New Hartford, Conn At the
age of u, with all his life before him, this
lad lost both his legs in rescuing his cous-
in. Anna Castonguay, from falling under
tie wheels of a moving train.
In the hospital later. where he lay in a
critica | condition, Joseph Dube said
quietly:
I'm satisfied; | saved Anna
There is high hope for race an age
or nation that breeds such men.
You never heard of Joseph Dube be-
fore: you may never hear of him again.
but do not imagine that such deesls are
lost.
Somewhere and somehow is kept an I'M
pe>dohas record Of the things that are