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Timely Views
PROPER Use cF PERSONAL FREEDOM URGED

By DR.. HARRY EMERSON FoSDICK
Pastor Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York City.
OR. Harry Emerson Fosdick was born in Buffalo,
n. w. in 1878. He was ordained to the Baptist
ministry in 1903 ard the following year became
pastor Of q church at Montclair, n. j., serving
htere until 1915. lie now is pastor of the Park
Avenue Baptist church, New York City. From 1905
10 1915, Fosdiek was instructor in homiletics at
the Union Theological seminary. becoming pro-
lessor Of practical theology at the seminary in
1915. He has written many books on theological
s~ubjects).
Even more important than the achievement Of rec
dom, whether political, social, economic or any other
kind, is 10 know how to use that freedom.
Many people, however, forget that there are two
stages in the fight for freedom: First, the achievement
Of it, and, second. the using Of it when you have
achieved it.
Folks constantly desire to escape from something.
Early Christians wished 10 be free from the Jewish law.
Early Protestants wished to be free from the Roman
Church. Women wished to be free from political dis
qualification. A new generation wishes to be free from
the codes and customs Of its predecessors. But when
the dreamed-of day comes and we are free we run into
the crux Of the whole problem. For when we have
freedom we have to do something with it. II we can
not use it we'll it was Of no use to get it in the first
place.
Think OF the new freedom OF women. She has been
emancipated in every realm Of her life. legal, eco
nomic and political. And yet has all this freedom
solved a single ultimate problem for women? Only in
the sense that it has presented American womsnhood
with an opportunity which may make womanhood or
break it.
Or consider the new freedom that comes to multi
tade' Of people through shortening the hours Of labor.
The eight-hour day is here and men like Henry Foci
are predicting a five-hour day in the near future. What
a liberation, we say. Nevertheless. to give anybody
leisure. 80 far from solving his problem, simply pre-
sents him with a deeper problem. All those who are
watching American life closely today know that how
we are going to use our new leisure is one Of our
major national questions. In one sense a fiye-hour
day will put q heavier strain on the morale Of .he
people than even the twelve-hour day did.
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Co.. Operative Marketing
Increasing

There are now approximately $50 cooperative mar
ketinr associations in the United States, each Of which
does an annual business Of upward Of 100000, ac-
cording TO the records Of the United States Department
Of Agriculture. the figures showing a steady increase
In recent years.
Practically all these organizations have started from
small beginnings and after proving their value to the
farmers have grown steadily. Their principal handi-
cap lies in the fact that cooperation IS not sufficiently
extensive to create a condition whereby they can con-
troll national production.
Department Of agriculture Investigators are predict
ing that within a few years the producers Of practi-
oally every agricultural commodity will be organized
to control production and marketing. A sympathetic
attitude on the part of the federal government would
20 far toward creating this very desirable condition,
farm leaders point out, and they feel assured that re-
gardless Of what the result Of the national elections
may be, the next administration will deal with the
farm problem in a more intelligent and sympathetic
manner than heretofore.
The failure Of the major parties to recognize the
equalization fee program Of the McNary-Haugen bill
is expected to result in general acceptance Of the CO.
operative policy BY the farmers as a means Of working
out their own problems. II this proves true and the
farmers within the coming four years perfect nation
wide organization, elimination Of the equalization fee
plan will have served to make agriculture independent
Of government aid and will place the industry upon a
highly profitable basis.
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Kellygramns
By FRED {. KELLY

his firm, is az heart no less honest
than anybody else; but his work
means a certain amount OF tempta-
tion-especially II he ever faces q
real need for immediate cash.
"A mere youth ~ n0t as good a risk
as an older man, for the reason that
his character u still uniformed. He
has no reputation back OF him to in
dictate what his future behavior will
be. On the other hand, q man WHO
has been In a position Of trust and
responsibility for two or three years.
with a perfect record. may have been
there just long enough TO have won
everybody's confidence and thus
make defalcation comparatively easy.
A surety company would rather
guarantee the honesty of n man who
has an unblemished record for N
somewhat longer period. The man
who plods along on n safe and sane
basis for ten years without any sign
Of skittishness is a pretty safe bet.
Some years ago an Italian psy-
choloEist declared that n certain age
from t~hirty-eiRht to about forty
four, ! think II was-men were more
likely 70 he dishonest than ut any
other time. Surety company experts
take little stock in this theory.
About the only reason a man aged
thirty-eight might be more likely TO
steal than one t~wenty-eight is be-
cause OF greater responsibility and
greater demands upon him.
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MAKING DISHONESTY DIFFICULT

MAKING DISHONESTY DIFFICULT
The simplest way to make q man
honest is 10 make ID impracticahle
for him to be dishonest. Years ago
there was q lot Of trouble due to
people whiting off little pieces OF
gold or silver coins and in that way
collecting small quantities Of valu-
able metal. 10 was impossible to
catch anybody in the act, and the
practice was a great nuisance. Then
someone hit on the plan Of milling
the edges Of coins and having a rule
that when this milling was damaged
the coin could not be passed. That
stopped the trouble instantly. IL no
longer paid to do IL.
The nature Of a mans occupation
Is a help or q hardicap, with regard
20 his honesty. according 20 the
amount Of supervision il carries
with IL. A man working IN the
branch office Of a big company IA
probably more likely to 60 wrong
than II he were in the main office.
directly under observation az others
in high authority.
A travelling man may establish for
himself a lax code OF ethics that he
would have considered III en-
ployed in a main office, subject TO
daily tab on his behavior and we'll
systematized restrictions. "A iewelry
salesman with q large assortment Of
samples entrusted "a his care. selling
goods on commission. or a man who
travels about collecting money for
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Other Papers
a ~"HIGH-MINDED" CAMPAIGN

Mr.. Hoovers political advisers announce that he
will conduct a "ligh-mindedr campaign. No personal
attacks will be made upon Governor Smith. The
Hoover orators will not refer to the democratic nomi-
nee as Al Smith. He Will BE Governor smith. And he
will be pronounced an able and honorable governor.
But the republican spelbinders will not forget that
Governor Smith is the man they will have 70 beat Il
the polls, 50 a contrast will be drawn between Hoover
and Smith. 70 show that while Governor Smith NAV
be an admirable chief executive for the state of New
York, he is not equipped to fill the far more response
bic office OF the presidency.
This plan Of campaign is precisely the kind the re-
publieans were expected to adopt. They cannot dis
parage Governor Smith as a governor or as q man.
They can and viii, however, harp upon the alleged SUI
periority Of Herbert Hoover as an administrator and
his knowledge Of International affairs.
Governor Smith will certainly DO no violence to Mr..
HooveE's feelings during the campaign. Governor
Smith will no doubt conduct a campaign "quite as
high-minded" as that Of Mr.. Hoover. And unless some
Of the democratic strategists are badly mistaken. Gov
ernor Smith will make a far greater success in personal
campaigning than bis rival.
Governor Smith has the personality that pleases the
crowds. Mr.. Hoover lacks the quality that Governor
Smith has in such abundance that no other man n
public life is his equal rs a campsigner.
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ern days away.

dolled up, plugging along the muddy
mountain roads.
Then she closed her eyes and could
see the little French girl who was
10 be her mother. come ~ on the
stage in her old-fashioned hoop
skirted gown and little poke bonnet.
What . contrast little Marcella
Odetts must have been to the brazen
girls in tights. highly made up, VINO
came out on the little old stage and
shocked the homely riountaineers
with tneir crude songs and dances.
When Marcella sang "Old Ken
lucky Home" she was like an angel.
So sad was her face, and so sweet
her voice, with a little unhappy catch
in III. Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer had
called her "the angel and loved her
from that minute On as the most
beautiful girl they had ever seen.
That same night Funny" Kelly,
like a villain in q play, had threat
ened Marcella II she wouldn't marry
him. And old Jake, the stage hand,
had slipped her old tin trunk off the
boat and helped her to the station
That was where the Petes found
her. a detected bundle, sitting on her
little trunk, crying. They had gone
10 ~ the first train they had ever
seen pull in, but when they heard
Marcella Odette's pitiful story Auntie
Pete took her into her arms and bun
died her right into the old buggy and
to their cabin in the mountains.
-Four dollars and not a friend in
America! Janet wiped a tear away
as she wondered what might have
happened 20 her poor little mamma IL
kind old Auntie and Uncle Pete
hadn't happened along right at that
minute.
And the very next day Romance
came acros the mountains and into
the life Of the little French girl.
When Parson Daniel Webster James
found himself in need of coal oil and
bacon, and drove over to the Big
Creek general store, owned by Uncle
Pete.
He was an appropriate looking
knight for the pretty Marcella, being
big and bloude-like a Nordic. Janet
scarcely knew her father, but she re-
membered that he was very good
looking. Now a little pang came to
ANAF anu sic NANANA NEAN AA4&A NAA@b
he might have been a good daddy and
loved her.
Daniel Webster James was a cir
cuit-riding parson Of Holden, Big
Greek and Little Fork. Narrow as a
pencil mark, and a purely self-styled
minister Of the gospel, never having
been ordained BY the church.
But Marcella just happened to be
coming from the caller, singing, her
blue-black hair piled high on her
head, and the red-brown eyes snap
ping happily as Daniel James came
into the store.
Three months later they were mar
ried in the little Elmer parlor, with
Auntie Pete weeping and Pete chuck
ling. II was a sitting hot summer
day that the little French girl, half
happy and half sad, rode into the
mountains with her earnest young
parson.
Marcella. the singing and dancing
girl-full Of life and overflowing
with gayety, giving up her life to the
marrow mountaineer who saw in
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lazily and, smiling at her thoughts
and plans, walked slowly to the
cabin. But she quickened her pace
when the delicious odor Of corn pone
assailed her nostrils.
Auntie Pete blocked the door with
her bulky form, laughing:
"Now, young 'un. lest hold yer
horses. You can't Spite your supper"
Janet, winding her arms around
Auntie Pete's neck, kissed her and
teased prettily:
"Not a teeny, weeny bit?"
Then from the folds OF her big
apron Auntie mysteriously produced
her favorite-a crust, and told her
sternly;
$50 on with you! You're spoiled.
/ clare, you're almost nv big q tease
as your nanny was"
When Auntie Pete went into the
store 70 call Pete, her expression had
changed to of sadness. She could
see that Pete, too, was thinking the
same thoughts. He put his arms
around her, and pulled her head to
his shoulder.
"Sumpin' tells me we amt goin' to
have our JAMIE long, mamma. To-
morrow she's Is"
"We done our best" Auntie told
him, simply, "and she'll always Be 4
good kid. Like her army. Nothin'
bad'n ever happen TO jamie, Pete"
Janet slept fitfully, burning with
excitement-eager for the morning.
Destiny lay between the closely
written pages Of The Letter."
(TO BE CONTINUED
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Washington Letter
BY CHARLES 2. STEWART

what q fizzle Fess would be before n
great popular gathering. The fact
~. however, hat National Chairman
Butler picked him out, and Butler Is
about the poorest politician that ever
was.
Bowers selection was mainly acct
dental He made one good speech
just at the psychological moment and
the democratic bosses grabbed nj
him before they thought. liz was q
lucky chance. IL all turns out we'll
for his party, there ought TO be q big
thing for Claude-what q terrible
thing il is that his names Claude.
But II Shouldn't Count
Nevertheless, even with that
handicap. democracy owes him a
huge debt OF gratitude for the fine
sendoff he gave TO the Houston gath
ering. Ii was a ticklish job, to
situation where the slightest mistake
on his part must have raised pluper-
feet heck and 10 isn't easy 10 be ms
forceful as blaZes and as cautious as
the Lord will let you at the same
time. Claude turned the trick The
only speaker at Kansas City who
held 4 candle to Bowers was young
Bob LaFollette.
Bob is sincere and that goes a
great way, but he hasn't Bowers
grasp of essential political principles.
Besides, he made the mistake Of
keeping il UP too long. II he had
said half as much he would have said
a great deal more. When Bowers
had finished he sat down.
III Ne gets his deserts he'll 20 into
the records M one az the ablest po-
litical speakers Of the present day,
partly because OF what he said, part
ly because az the way he said IL, and
partly because he knew when 10
nuif
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-02

Who am II What am ! sometimes
called? In what organization did !
get my start?
What country began work on the
Panama canal?
What is the capital of Poland?
Name the United States battleship
blown up in Havana harbor which
precipitated the Spanish American
war.
"For every tree is known by its
own fruit. For Of thorns men do
not gather figs, nor Of q bramble
bush gather they grapes."-Where
does this passage appear in the
Bible?
Today in the Fast
On this date. in 1851, President
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By CHARLES P. sTEWART


HOUSTON, Texas, July Mot
again in our time ia this country
likely TO behold such a contrast in
convention keynoters as it has Just
been privileged 70 see or rather To
listen TO between heynoter Simeon
ID. Fess az Kansas City and keynoter
Claude u. Bowers az Houston. OF iii
the awful keynoters who ever key
noted Senator Tess undoubtedly was
the worst. Claude was one Of the
best.
Fess droned plAtitudes intermin-
ably until he drove his audience out
OF the hall. Bowers was crisp and
snappy. He rose to some heights Of
real ~eloquence. And for a neynoter
he was brief.
There's small question that the diff
ferences in the keynoting was largely
responsible for the difference il the
tone Of two conventions. A con-
vention which makes its getaway 20
the tune Of an intolerably boresome
speech has hard work to inject much
pep into its proceedings later on.
Conversely a red-hot start, such as
Bowers gave TO the Houston blowout,
is already more than half a success.
Too Political
II probably all goes to show that a
man can be too much OF a politician
for certain purposes. Fess can run
rings around Bowers as a fixer, but
he has the temperament az a lizard.
Bowers has red blood in his veins.
Tess speaks from the standpoint Of
expediency. Bowers from the shout
der. A slv old fox NAV he all right
in a committee room, but the rip
snoring roar OF a lion sounds bet
ter at a nominating convention.
The wonder is that the republican
management didn't sense in advace
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everything she loved only ~wickedness
and destruction
But Marcella did not know this on
the day she became q bride.
Summer turned to fall, and fall 70
winter. One Of the coolest winters
the mountains OF Kentucky had ever
known. Lonely, homesick, misunder-
stood, Marcella counted the days
until spring should come and relieve
her Of her unhappiness, and give her
something for which 10 live. Auntie
Pete. %childless, loved her as her "
daughter, but knew nothing OF her
misery.
II was exactly a year from the
time Parson James rode TO the Elmer
store ana into Marcella's life that.
alone and frantic, she brought her
child into the world. They found
her. with the babe clutched to her
breast, her lips blue and lifeless.
Daniel had arrived too late with the
doctor and Mrs. Pete.
An early spring electric storm tore
at the mountains that night II was
az II the very elements celebrated the
birth of the babe. Or was it an
omen?
Auntie Pete watched over the little
life for which the life Of the lovely
Marcella had been given-the little
black head nestled 70 her bosom.
II was the next morning that they
found "the letter"-on a table with
another one addressed to Daniel
James, begging him 20 give the baby
10 Mr.. and Mrs. Pete, and 70 name
her Janet Mary. after Marcella's own
mother, who died when she was a
little girl.
So seriously had the criticism Of
the staid mountaineers poured down
upon Dan James when they learned
that Marcella was the singing girl
from the show boat, that he was
almost without a following. SO he
became an evangelist, and gladly re-
lieved himself of Marcella's baby.
His life, he told himself, would he
one Of a man hell-bent in search Of
sin. Only occasionally did he see his
little daughter, and then when a
camp meeting happened to take him
near Big Greek.
Janet was only four when il be-
came quite evident that she was 70
have Marcella's beautiful voice, her
jet-black hair and red-brown eyes.
She was five when her father mar
ried a widow from Huntington, w.
Va, with considerable property
Janet's eyes filled with tears as
she went over it all-and realized
fully, just how well the dear old
Petes. in their good way, had carried
out their trust. She had been four
teen when they took their life's saw
ings from the bank and sent her
away to a private school. fifty miles
away:
Because your ma would want you
to be a big lady"
The school was more like an old
ar~istocratic southern home than an
institution Of learning. There were
fifty girls. nearly all Of whom were
from wealthy families in the south
and east.
So easily did Janet Mary fall into
the new environment that she was
soon one Of them. She was not par
t~ieularly interested in any Of her
studies except French and dramatics
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These she absorbed completely-and
begged for more.
Two year after her entry, Janet
spoke French as well as her teacher.
Among all the girls in the school,
there were none who interested her
like Esther Sherman OF New York
City. who could hold her s~pellbound
for hours, telling her Of life along
the Hudson.
Janet made UP her mind that as
soon as her graduation she would get
to Broadway-hook OF crook. She
mustl Nothing else in life seemed
worth while.
And now her school days were
over. She sat deep in thought and
dreams. and dreaded telling Auntie
and Uncle Pete, jolly, fat old dears
who loved her 50, that she must
leave their mountains.
But they knew, even better than
Janet, that their world was not hers.
She was like Marcella-and hadn't
Marcella been the most beautiful
creature in the world-and the most
talented? To them the old show boat
nothing cheap or sordid about the
place where they had first found
Janet's mother.
Would tomorrow never come?
Janet unused in the sunlight. her
hair black as the crows that circled
above her. Her red-brown eyes we're
flecked with little sparkles of fire,
and her nose, small and straight.
AH
and small, sharp teeth, that cleaned
and shimmered like little pearls.
Tire was nothing Of Daniel James
about this taIL Az young princess,
about 10 embark upon a new world,
Janet was aroused by Auntie Pete
calling her 70 supper. She stretched
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The Grab Bag

Garfield was shot by G.. j. Guiteau,
at Washington, .. G.
-
Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign show
much persistence and pe~rtinacity re-
garding their undertakings and can
not be beaten out of their inten-
tions. They do not always exercise
best judgment.
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SPOILS GIRLS REALTY

BELFAST. - Because Miss Mary
Conlin flirted with another man,
Joseph Mccune slashed her face with
a razor.
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"A Daily Thought ".
Sincerity j. impossible. unless il
pervade the whole being. and the
p~retense Of IL saps the. very founda-
ii n Of character Lowell.
Answers 70 Foregoing Questions
I. VIII Rogers: cowboy humorist;
in the Ziegfeld Follies.
2. France in 1881
3. Warsaw.
4. Maine.
3. ST. Luke. vi. a..
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CHAPTER i

CHAPTER l
Long before anyone else ever
dreamed that Janet Mary would he
tsmous-and n~otorious-on Broad
way some day, Auatie Pete felt IL IN
her bones.
Well. maybe she didn't Just know
how Janet would manage lt-or
where. But she knew that there GER
tainly would he something big and
exciting doing around where Janet
happened 10 Be. Every rainutel
From the time she crawled around
the old cabin floor, with her blue
black hair shining in unruly pig-tails.
Auntie Pete Elmer used to say 10
Uncle Pete.
II d~ee-clarei II you set that
plunk down on q deserted
island she would have somethin'
started before shutdown. A revoloo-
ton or somethin'."
And Uncle Pete would chuckle and
tell her:
Yes, an you're braggin'."
Then they'd both laugh and try 70
figure out how any born human
could be so ALFRED full Of ginger
and be q angel % boot"
For a Bit Of q saint, and a Bic OF
4 devil, was Janet Mary. Sweet as
the blue grass in which she used TO
love TO lie and dream the lazy south
er ndays away.
She lay Knee Deep in June"
dreaming-smiling, now and them
pensiyely, up at the blue sky from
the depths of the cool, bright grass.
There never had been such a long
week in Janet's life! She was wait
ing for her eighteenth birthday. That
in itself is an event in the life Of any
Janet had looked forward TO ever
since she was a tiny girl.
She had known about The Letter
since her seventh birthday. Auntie
Pete had opened the old lock-boX and
let her touch it with her very own
hands. And she had read there in q
pretty, frilly hand:
ITO nv little girl, to be opened on
her Eighteenth birthday"
She had cried and kissed the letter
and then Auntie Pete had told her
all about how she happened to be
"her little Petsy."
Janet remembered IL all. just as
though it had happened yesterday.
How one early spring day there
came down the Big Sandy river, like
a treasure ship in an old story, the
first show boat the natives Of Sandy,
Kentucky, had ever seen. a scream
ing calliope wakened the surprised
village. and there, before their very
eyes. appeared;
Charles Funny Kelly
DIXIE SUGAR CANE BABIES
featuring
Mile. Marcelia Odette
Famous European Opera star"
When Auntie Pete got 70 the place
in the story where she and Pete had
decided to fool the parson and 80 out
and "git themselves furnished with
sin" by going TO a show, Janet had
thought it very funny. Especially
that part where Pete shined his shoes
with goose grease and Auntie Pete
frilled her hair with a hot poker and
squeezed into tight corsets that
"choked her" Janet thought she
would have liked to see them all
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wATERMELONs
New York World.

II saddeas US to learn that the watermelons now on
sale in this great city Of ours cost 81 and IS apiece
Thsre was . time when they cost much less. In that