The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

anniversary which occurred last hioH
J,y I'm the morning Chairman Us
car w. Underwood, Of the ways ana
Means Committee, called AT the "ii"0
House In discuss the NusSel HhodiS
waterpowcr plan. This proJect NaS
eliminated from the river anu q
hors appropriation Dill, Dut IL II OnH
of vital importance 70 the SUI
iced on The recommendation OF
army engineers, they propose 10 III
~. the Tennessee river TO supply
enormous amounts Of electric power
for the States Of Alabama, tennessee
and Georgia. While the plan calls 1or
the outlay Of many millions OF dol
lars il is claimed that the amount eA-
nended will be repaid h govern
ment with interest by the water1o"er
companies, and as well tue IenhSseee
river will be made ~navigable It's en-
tire length.
One of the Presidents youngest
callers was little Homer Riggs, a boy
scout from New York. The youngster
was most cordially greeted ana ms
young heart made happy by the Pres
ident. who shook hands with the
small patriot and graciously received
the New Years greeting he pre-
scented from the Boy Scouts OF the
Woodlawn Heights Presbyterian
church, New York.
Congress to Face Crowded Calendars.
Athouqh the shin purchase bill,
hacked by the administration, Is
awaiting accommodating action 1t Is
said il with other as important meas
ures will be Side-traCked until the
Mondell woman suffrage resolution,
has been acted upon. In former years
the question of suffrage was met win
smiles and treated as a joke, put
~ ri M II r
Ia Ills The times have changeo,
and we nave changed with them,
as the old Latin maxim expressed IT
The eyes Of the entire country VII
be focused upon the House at me
time OF the battle royal for the recoS'
milton of woInen as people and cltl'
2ens. II is believed tina the debate
IN itself will bring prominently u
the front and emphasize the debate IL
itself will bring prominently to tn
front and emphasize the fact tina
suffrage is no longer a question Whlcf
can be smiled at and pushed aside
The enfranchisement or women ha
become not only q national question
but one of colossal political import
ance, and no one knows it better thai
the solons who have ceased smiling
ana joking about 1t.
Chairman Henry of the Rules Com
mittee il is said Will give the mem
bers a breathing spell after their bat
tleo n the prohibition question. Tn
House will be the stage about tn
middle of aJnuary upon which tn
great drama of equality and Justic
will be enacted. In the old days whe
Susan r. Anthony and her intrepi
followers dared to ask for the right
and privileges accorded even recent
enfranchised illiterate cOlored brotf
ers the solons in Congress were mar
less politeness, that when wOme
want the ballot, we shall be glad
grant it TO them"
In this day when women not on
have asked, but have requested ar
plead in vain, for the justice Ion
denied them, the old subterfuge h;
had to he discarded. With four al
a half millions Of actually VIC
ing, the gentlemen who unlike Seer
tary Bryan are willing TO keep RICH
for themselves which they do II
wish to share with their wives, mot
ers n daughters, are wildly scare
ing about to find some other loi
and chivalrous sentiments upon WIFI
to hang their betrayal Of the rigl
demanded by the feminine portion
their constituents.
Dan Cupid Attended the DemOcra
Convention.
Although he had no invitation, a
no vote. like pretty little Miss Gel
We've Clark herself, Master Dan
only attended the Baltimore conv
ton but while Speaker Clark's pre-
daughter and Mr.. James M. Thorn:
were valiantly campaigning for
father, their hearts were ~unconscio
ty made the target for little Da
unerring aim. Since she was a sn
girl Miss Clark has been an enthusi
tic aspirations.
Mr.. James NJ. Thomson is a sterl
young American. mailing from "
Virginia. Jimmie" as he is knt
to til. journalistic frdtern. ty, has
ready earned fer hirself an envi
position, by his own efforts, as
editor.
che stony is lid that borrow
- he went - esm folk, Va,
Fought up an obsc.tre little DE-
tn ~ as the - .isltch :'lde.
known as the Dispatch. Under
able editorship the Dispatch g
from four to sixteen pages, when
Thnn10nn dicnool 90