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Fourth day* of September. I fit.
(SEAL) R. C- PHELPS.
Ket*FT PaM*t Vftntffomenr
SIGNIFICANCE 07 THE HERALD’S
POLL.
The New Torh Herald la the second install
ment of Ita poD takes care not to snake a
definite prediction as to the outcome of the
Presidential race. It contests itself with
statins what are the indications in the
States polled. We are interested particular
ly in the nine States which The Herald says
lean toward Wilson, this week as last. They
ore:
New York. Connecticut. New Jersey. Massa
chusetts. West Virginia. Kentucky. Missouri.
Oklahoma and Arizona. These States hare
lU electoral rotes. That gives Mr. Wilson
IK rotes. The winner must get !H rotes.
Among the States The Herald says are in
clined ts Hughes are these: Maryland.
Maine. New Hampshire. Vermont. Rhode
Inland. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Iowa. Wiscon
sin. Michigan. Kansas. Nebraska. California.
Nevada. New Mexico. North Dakota. Minne
sota and Colorado.
Sacs the war West Virginia has gone
Democratic six times and Republican six
ttwii ■ Sines the war Indiana has gone
Democratic fear times and Republican eight
times. Since the war Nebraska has gene
Democratic three times. Colorado four times.
Delaware seven times. Montana three times
Democratic and three times Republican.
Montana has not gone Republican but twice,
and twice its Tote was split.
The most significant thing about The
Harold’s poll Is. as we suggested a few days
ago In commenting upon the first poll, the
fact that its canvass Indicates New York,
New Jersey and Massachusetts ore leaning
toward Wilson. Sines the war Massachu
setts has neTer given its electoral vote to
the Democratic candidate except in l?!i, al
though locally it has gone Democratic sev
eral times. Whoever is elected President
must have New York to win. New Jersey
has gene Democratic seven times since the
war. and New Jersey has fourteen electoral
votes, which does pretty well for a State
that Isn’t mast larger than Montgomery
county. We say the indications in New York
are significant because in all probability The
Herald's canvass In New York was more
thorough, and because further it indicates
pretty well about how the rest of the country
is thinking If Massachusetts is inclined to
Wilson, what doubtful State is not inclined
to him*
Here is > (set the importance of which may
o«t be properly appreciated in the cotton
belt where in the last two years we have
had a touch of ‘'hard times” on account of
cotton: The 9ta.es that don't crow cotton
are unprecedentedly prosperous Indiana.
Oh:o and other Kiddle Western farmers
new have had better times. In addition
those interior people are rejoicing tha. Til.
son kept cs out of war. Candidate Hughes
cannot make any headway with hia “full
dinner pail" clap-trap before people who are
making money and getting all the work they
can do
la the Kiddle West. too. there are man V
people who are opposed to military prepared
ness: in fact it eras only in Use Kiddle West
. that the anti-preparedness propaganda m.H
nsch impression.
Candidate Hughes is saying that the Pre
paredness the Democrats gave the country
U not -sufficient and that he will urge greater
increases in our fighting strength. He also
Intimates that he is M -od thirsty. As we
see it the Pacifists of the Kiddle West will
taka Wilson as She lesser of the two evils,
they will lean to him because of his activi
ties to preserve peace.
All in all the situation looks good: but we
are Inclined to think The Herald is hitting
done to the truth when it says that not for
twenty-Gt« years have we had a Presidential
campaign that was as “cioee as this one.
II Mr. Wilson keeps up the campaigning
pace net within the past two or three days he
will stab have Mr. Hughes in a corner. The
Amanraa people like the sort of talk Kr.
WUsoa has bean siting them lately.
Sow that It appears that Oaneeticut is
going far Wilson. we are wondering what
The Hartford Conrar.t thinks about it. The
Commat will take Wilnon's re-election hard,
because if there ever eras a newspaper that
honestly believed in what the Republican
party stands far. The Courts: is tan: paper.
The Cosraat takas Its Republicanism Seri
THE FRESZDEET’S BUGLE citL
The speech of President Wilson. Sttndar.
to s delegation of Tonne Democrats from
J>ew Tork was as a Hast from the horn of
Rhode rick Dhn. It van a haste can to a
militant Democracy, dhich asks only »*«» it
he led to the charge acaiast its aaricat foe.
The speech bristles not only with spirit
of aggressiveness. hot with sharp epigrams
that may he well quoted throughest the
campaign. It towers abort the common
place fault finding of Charles E. Hughes,
who ia his aimless. cavilling campaign has
not altered one sentence that was remem
bered for twenty-foor hoars. The intel
lectual disparity between the two candidates
is strikingly displayed in a comparison be
tween the Wilson speech of Saturday, and
any utterance that Hughes has made since
he began his campaign of mediocre and com
monplace fault finding.
The President brings the thoughtful people
of the country sharply to a new realisation
when he says: “The certain prospect of Re
publican success in November, ia that we
shall be drawn, in one form or another, into
the embroilment of the European war and
the forces of the United Staten will he used
to produce in Mexico the kind of law sad
order which some investors ia Mexico con
sider most to their advantage.1*
The logic of this ia inevitable. If there
is any promise in the campaign of the Re
publicans. it is the promise that the foreign
policy rf Woodrow Wilson will be upset, and
his work for peace undone. Whatever else
the campaign of the Republicans may mean
it implies directly that the foreign policies
of the administration will be upset.
‘Am I not right that we must draw the
conclusion that If the Republican party
is put into power at the neat election onr
foreign policy will be radically changed—
he asked. "I cannot draw any other in
ference. All onr present foreign policy
is wrong. they say. and If It is wrong
and they are men of conscience they
must change it. And if they are going
to change it. in what direction are they
going to change It? There is only one
choice as against peace, and that is war."
Nor can any thinking man deny the calm
and truthful assertion of the . President:
"Back of that party (the Republicans) are
those who want to inject Into our politics the
politics of Europe.” The success of Hughes
would be the success of foreign born voters,
or voters of foreign decent, who are more
loyal to the country of their ancestors than
they are to the country of their prosperity
and their voluntary adoption.
The President has a significant word for
the Progressives If they are sincere in
their principles: if they are not hypocrites
politically, they will support the party which
has put into effect the policies fhey advocate,
rather than flee to the support of the men
who have blocked such reforms la the past
and who have been denounced as “robbers"
“bosses" and "burglars" The President has
every right to call himself a progressive in
politics; no man.'no matter what party he
i may have givea allegiance, has so aasny
! progressive achievements to his credit, as
i has the President. Whatever opposition he
! has had in his own party has been from
; democrats who hare clang closer to the pria
| ciples of the party to which he so cleverly
and so skillfully alluded. These men. in the
main, are not opposed to progress, hot unlike
I the radical, they are not for change, merely
for the sake Sf change, but because they
believe change means progress and improve
ment. la the advocacy of progressive prin
ciples the Presideat has gone to the limit
that a good Democrat can go.
If he jloes not receive the whole-hearted
support of the Progressives after his excel
| lent record, the*Progressivea then, are politi
cal mercenaries, similar to those mercenaries
' who in the Russo-Japanese war went from
| one side to the other, dressed In Chinese uni
i forms, and seeking nothing except what was
i best for their own selfish and personal ia
) teresla
The Paesident’a last speech has ia it the
stirring note of a bugle call to battle. A new
phase of the campaign, with an "offensive
j movement" by the Democrats is on.
AGRICULTURAL PREPAREDNESS.
The Nashville Tennessean often reminds
its readers of the importance of creatine
more nitrogen in this country to the til
that our hungering soil may he strengthened
by this health-giving portion. The thought
leads The Tennessean Into a consideration
of a popular state of mind and also of the
fart that we are not growing enough a tuff
for cur needs in this country What The
i Tennessean says is so good and so apt we
*l»°te its words:
The bankruptcy courts and the poor
houses are filled with men and women
who could not realise that the necessities
i of life do not provide themselves. They
expected that there would always he a
sufficiency of food and clothing and shel
j ter. even though their source was not
visible. Nations have gotten themselves
into the same trouble by their failure to
conceive of the possibility of crops being
not always bountiful and of natural
! wealth becoming exhausted.
Every snee in a while something takes
. place that dispels the pleaaaat illusion
of perpetual wealth without effort that
nations and citizens hold. The Cnited
States ia face to face with something of
this kind this year, with the anaounce
ment that the wheat crop will be short
and that the number of bales -'"cotton
) to be ginned ia considerably below nor
mal For probably the first time in our
' history we are considering the possibility
of not having enough wheat to go around.
It is not probable, or course, that we
‘ will actually have to do without bread,
j but the loaf ia certainly getting smaller,
and it ia very likely that the prices will
go up- China ia accustomed to a de
ficiency in the food supply every few
years with actual famine In provinces
| where crop failures occur, and when we
hear of this condition we rejoice that we
live in a country where such a thing
j cannot happen. But we learn that ws are
not completely assured of oar safety.
| Our population, according to the census
* reports is growing with some degree at
rapidity- We esn see. on any trip into
I the suburbs, how the city is encroaching
on the country, reducing the number of
acres of farmland
The Tenneosean nuotes Sir William Crookes
as saying that there ia only one way ;a
which the ratio of production to population
ran be made to favor a lower cog of living
sad that ia to supply in largo volume the
element of soil fertility, “which is of grant
importance, bat which in being exhausted
njifir. This ilf ft la altngna.’
' Cyntrm has nrafaM the Carl that a
|rai ml K this wtiy ia a tantr of
cheap nitrates. aal ta that |ial Congress
authorised the l« Min ad a genramt
aitrata plaat each as aaaU ha capable at
supplying the farmers with their aitrata
seeds ta time af peace aad nsll alaa ha
capable ad supplying the (STtruuet with
nitrates far the aasafactm ad munitlses ia
bat of war.
Nats rally any nssiliratias ad tha aitrata
question leads in facia sd people ta thtah af
Muscle Shoals on the Teaaaasea riser ia
Alabama- “There is aa site known that fal
filh these cometiou hatter thaa Maoric
Shoals.'* declares The Tennessean.
We thiak tha rhnsirn of Muscle Shoals
arc pood: hat eeea if Mwwrte Shoals ia aal
choasa aa tha site, the plaat will
ha located somewhere t» this r aaatry. In
say event we shall soaa base a Taster supply
af nitrates and fertiliser centaliisf altra
|ts should become cheaper, la this can
try era have got ta escape ia soO-buiMlng.
Increase the output* of the sail aad improve
the quality of Knf predated. It Is a case af
■slf-prune rratioo
WHY CAHT YOU FOLLOW THESE
The voter who may he ia doubt about how
he should vote oa the Educational A mead
meat. should consider the position af the
leaders of thought in Alabama. No public
sun in this State has announced himself as
being opposed to tbe amendment- Every
man who has spoken o n it is whole ■ hearted -
ly for it.
Hera are some of the traders • the State
who are for this, the moot important amend
ment to the new constitution ever proposed:
v United States Senators Bankhead aad
Underwood and nine Congressmen: Governor
Henderson and former Governor Jelka. former
Governor O'Neal. Captain Richmond P. Hob
son. Captain Frank S. White. Hon. Ray Rush
ton. Hon. Sidney J. Bowie. Hon. Forney John
ston. Hon. L. B. Mangrove. Cob K. S. D. Mal
lory. Judge W. W. Brandon. Lieutenant-Gov
ernor Thomas E. Kilby. Speaker A- H. Car
michael. Chancellor Oscar Lewis. Senator
Harry Hartwell. Game aad FUh Commission
er John H. Wallace. Jr.-former Mayor C. &
McDowell of Eufaala. Judge W. W. Harrison
: of DeKalb county. Hon. Jobs Rogers of Sum
j ter, FTed M Jackson. Han.'Borden Burr. Dr.
| W. B. Crompton and Hon. W. C. Davis of
I Walker.
The Amendment has been endorsed by the
following important bodies ia Alabama: The
Alabama Bar Association, the Farmers'
| Union, the Alabama Bankers' Association.
Alabama Educational Association. Federation
of Women’s Clubs. State Democratic Exec
utive Committee, chairman of the Republican :
State Executive Committee aad the chair- 1
man of the Progressive Republican Commit
tee. the Masonic Grand Lodge. Alabama Press
Association, many Rotary Ciabo aad many
Chambers of Commerce, many labor organiza
tions: , /
A TEUTONIC VICTOEY.
Ths Roanunim army, which has teen Tie*
toriously uhuciBf Into Tnasylnaii. *iirt
is Austrian territory, from one strategical
point to another has been overwhelmingly
defeated by a Teutonic force under General
Falkenhayn- The rirtory. even as it is out
lined from London, is a Tictory of good gen
eralships as veil as of excellent equipment .
in trained men and munition* of war.
The German commander laid his plans
, veil. Re divided his force, with Napoleonic
strategy, and while one body of troops en
gaged the invaders, another by quick marries
1 encircled them and fell upon their flask and
rear. The Roumanians were routed. It re
mains to be seen whether they must retire
from the invasion or whether they can
' strengthen themeslves en the new line upon
■ which they have fallen back.
This is really the first decisive victory I
I I
! for either side niece the successful onslaught
I by the Raasiana on the Austrians. It is now
' evident that the German General SiaS seder
the leadership of Von Hiadenbur* is devot
ing its energies to meeting the menace to the
I Teutonic allies en the Eastern frost. Is
i truth, the war has come into a sew era. fo»
i in the Balkans, where it begin, it is assum
ing a decisive phase. Austria. Bulgaria and
the connecting line to Turkey mast be pro
tected. if the Central Powers are to vis eves
a drawn battle. Once defeated ns the east
in decisive fashion, the Central rowers most
content themselves with being besieged by
an overwhelming force of likes Of coarse,
nobody understands this any better than the
German staff. So. when the Roumanian in
vasion. fifty miles within Austrian territory,
began to be a serious menace to Austria, the
Germans, under Falkenhayn. and helped by
the Austrians, fen upon them as. beat them
back.
ARE AMERICANS POOR SAVERS?
i _
At a meetlag ia Looi* e-f the National
Association of Life I*isr»a« rtftnrit*™,
, J. Luntlxrger D»tu, of the
Association lia! tte Aatms peo
ple rink list in tkriftineaa.
! “It ts significant.- he si:f "that an the
! I'nited States, where wages are sstsriesdi
I high, only 99 people ©dt of each l.,*** hare
savings aceooats. whereas in Ansit-aim there
‘ are ISO: la England Sot: ia iieiaatr Ilf; ia
, France } IS: ia Belgiam 39~ and in Sw Tier
j land let It is also dfSllkast «n *Jer»any
! Franca. England an-1 Japan the nornier of
• jegMttors are greater than ia the Failed
j Sta^s. and tfcgt in Germany the aggregate
I amount sf savings deposit* is airrovt as large
: as the aggregate in the Fatted States, al
though Germany s peg niat:*a is only a boat
two-t htrds as large as «-«r ova*
Ia this eiaatry atwy ««*i easy and
goes easy: elsewhere a the nrU it comes
hard and it goes hard to lose it la the
coantries cited as patting America ia a -*
light people mast »k.erp along or g. h-angry.
Bat that is no tlf’-ir fee the profligacy of
! the American. Ia this ©wintry we have the
'world hy the tail v»k a downhill foil but
i we love lamarie* We Dole to hay things.
We long to poosees the thing* jaat money
will hoy Comparatively speaking It j^r<.
had the JMs ig to bay things srilh. and sre
have made oar nptUEss as a -stiis of
I forty at Post “Dey i>ho’ Wont Get me Out o’ This Town" 'j I
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•pendens. We get along all right until aome- j
thing happens; then we find our resources
scant. We make “good money" in flush
times, hut now and then the bottom drops
out, as in 1S14, when the war hit ue, and the
consequence is that many thousands or our
people are sorely pinched when prices go up
and incomes go down. There is nothing to
fall back on, as the saying goes. ,
Tet. our people know how to save, if they
were only inclined to do it. The successful
men of America, big, little and indifferent—
that is, the men who have earned a com
petence—are men who knew how to save.
Otherwise they never would have made a suc
cess. Ton can't succeed it you don’t save
your money.
Mr. Wilson is using the exclamation point.
He is willing for Mr. Hughes to have the
hyphen
The government announces that Mexicans
entering this country must be fumigated.
This is an indelicate hint to a neighbor to
take a wash. Wonder how the commission
ers at New London feel about the hint?
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The State Fair at Birmingham will throw
open its gates Thursday. Birmingham’s fairs
have always been successful. Lots of peo
ple will go to this one. i
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When Montgomery becomes the livestock
center of the South we’ll quit talking about
plantations and speak of ranches. In five
years ranch stories will be sold to the maga
xinea with a Black Belt atmosphere.
The Diversified
Farmer
A married man tells os that the women
who do the most kissing do the least honest
to-goodness loving.
A married lady writes in to say that she
doesn't see why any free and sane bachelor
should ever want to assume an extra meal
ticket for life. Neither do us, lady.
Hr. Duaway os Labor Problem.
3. E. Dunaway and Joe Lambert, of Orr
ville, Alabama, are among the largest diversi
fied farmers in the Central South. Not only
this, but they are leaders in thought on the
economic problems that we are facing and
gradually working out.
Mr. Dunaway says that it is the part of the
land owner in this section of the South to
bold the labor. And he not only says so, but
be and his partner are doing their full part
and showing how the labor can be held.
It la true that they are in better position
to bold their labor than many land owners
They began getting ready for the boll weevil
three years before his appearance in their ter
ritory. They went over in Mississippi and in
vestigated conditions there and acted on
these conditions They began building barns
silos hog houses began to fenc. more ex
tensively and to put more stock on the land
and to get the land in shape for more grain,
more pastures and more leguminous croim
So when the boll weevil came, followed by
the floods of the past summer, Dunaway and
Lambert were in shape to hold their labor and
keep right on. Since the floods they have
been employing 150 people a day on their
farms! Just think of that—150 peopls work
ing every day and being paid regular wagea
for their work.
What are these people working st? They
are picking peas, cutting sorghum for silage,
hauling the sorghum, cutting it up in the
allage cutters and filling the silos: they are
getting the land in shape for winter corer
crops such as oats and rye, bur and crimson
clover: they are building more fences and
painting buildings; they are making repairs
and bnildlng more hog houses and implement
sbeda; they are looking after the hogs, the
dairy cows and the beef cattle. In short,
they are engaged in work in a system of
farming that means work for them all the
year around and farming that means profits
every week in the year.
In a bad eeason. with the lure of the in
dustrial centers pulling the labor, you can't
hold labor on an allcotton farm for there
is nothing for the labor to do, and paying a
man wages end supplying him with food
whea ho oau do no productive work Is s drain
that few men can stand. Right here your
cotton system breaks down completely. Tbs
end of the all-cotton farm is in sleht It 1
cannot continue to exist because it is eco
nomically on a false foundation.
J. E. Dunaway's plea to the land owner is
to change and change at once. He urges
that the old cotton farm be fenced and turned
into a stock ranch; that it he seeded down
to pastures—both grains and legumes—and j
that the labor be kept for work and profits i
instead of idleness and loss.
The people should listen to a man like J. j
E. Dunaway. He speaks from experience,
and successful experience. He can show from i
his own books and his own farm tha diversi
fication with livestock is the only way to i
make real money out of the land now and the !
only way to hold the labor on the land. He \
can show more profits and more progress ■
than any cotton farmer in the South, no mat- j
ter how skilled a cotton producer he may be.
He can show profits and expectation of futnre
profits that make the all-cotton land owner
feel that he has been a chump to continue ;
under the old system.
Dunaway and Lambert have got the start I
on a good many land owners, but they are i
always ready to put out the helping hand
to other land owners who are groping for a .
sure hold onto the fut-re. Their example is
leading many In the sure paths In their own ;
county. Dallas.
Why not take the advice of the men who !
are making a success and a big success!
Why not see what they are doing and adopt
their methods? Why make a failure with j
land and the labor problem when big money
awaits the man who will take a fair piece ]
of land and turn it into a stock ranch, start- j
lng with native cows and the best pure-bred
bull to be had? Why not see that hogs, cat- .
tie and sheep are what make profits, build j
up the land and enable the owner to hold and {
pay the labor? Why not?
Even the Scriptures say something about
the “old order” passing away. Well, thank
goodness, it is passing in this neck of the
woods.
We mw a notice up the other day to the
effect that a minister was going to preach a
sermon on what Christ would do if He came
to this territory at this time. Without ven
turing any prediction on the topic, we would
not be surprised if He would repeat the
parable of the man who failed to use the
"talent” given him and apply it to the all
cotton farmer. And we would not be sur
prised if He would not bring home to some
of our people that "the laborer is worthy of
his hire."
Get ready for the great State-wide Live
stock Show in Montgomery. October I3-:8.
"Hard luck" always comes upon the man
who lives up to his income.
—U M.
Letters 10 J^aitor
THE INFORTISATK ISSl'E OF SECTION
ALISM.
Prattville. A Is-. Sept. lith, ISIS.
Editor The Advertiser.
May I? Thank you. I’ll be short, yes sir. I
lust want to say a word or two. I have
noted with much regret that the national
Republican campaign committee have been,
and are still. Infusing into the national
campaign, sectionalism. I believe that this
fact is to be regretted more than anything
that could have been done. In the outset.
I would like to state that the writing of
this letter is not actuated by a spirit of en
dorsement of President Wilson, or of the
national administration, for I do not under
take to do that. Many things have been done
by both President Wilson and our national
Congress which I do not endorse, and much
has been left undone which > would have
liked to see accomplished. Therefore, this
cannot be attributed as an endorsement ef.
or a criticism against, our present adminis
tration. To be a little more definite, I ear
that I am a prohibitionist.—locally, state
wide and nationally. But that spirit mani
fested by the Republicans at the North, and
infused into the present campaign it seems
should Be discouraged by all citixens who
have the future welfare of our nation at
heart, whether he be a Democrat, a Repub
lican. or a prohibitionist.—regardless of
political affiliation, lets put down anything,
i political or otherwise, that even tends to
; kindle again the fire of sectionalism. Very
: recently there has fallen into my hands
some political literature issued from the
: office of Mr. Wilcox, who today occupies the
; very high position of chairman of the fa
I tional Campaign Committee, of the groat
Republican party. In this literatun can be
! found the germ which. when scattered
' abroad over these United States. wiiL I fear.
4I& op the long forgotten bloody shirt: will
retouch the horrible picture of the recon
struction day*, and tend to engender an es
tranged feeling in the minds and hearts of
the people in one section against those of
another, which will to say the least some
what retard the great work of progress
which we are doin- and the accomplish
ment of those purposes for which the world
is looking to us to achiere. I say to each
of the great partiea fight out your battles
along the lines of, political economy, hold
up to the eyes of our people the torch light
of your several political faiths: acquaint
them with the strength of your platforms,
and show clearly the benefits to be reached
by traveling along the pathways each of
you have ehosen. But do not, for the love
you hold sacred for this greatest nation on
earth, poison the minds of our people with
this sectional, or racial prejudice, which
tends to dethrone the reason of some, and
which may so benumb the better judgment of
the others that will cause them to lose
sight of the dictates of their better judg
ment.
In this same circular emlnating from the
office of Mr. Wilcox, reference is made to
the actions of Ex-President Taft. Ex-Presi
dent Roosevelt, end mention is made of for
mer President Cleveland, as to the courses
they pursued with reference to the negro
holding governmental positions. By this I
draw the inference that they have gene
back to other days ls! dug up the old and
forgotten policies of Senator Stoneman, and
are trying to bring again life Into bie
theories, which God in His infinite wisdom,
so lengthened his days to allow him to live
and see exploded and turn within thj twink
ling of an eye into a poisonous Ider which
stung the old senator almost to death in
his last days. The circular is Inconsistent,
because it forgets the views so plainly ex
pressed and maintained by the late lament
ed and.beloved McKinley, who expressed his
sentiments as “there cannot dwell together
two races of equal political and social rights
—there must be a superior race and an in
ferior race." May our country produce more
McKinleys. I Imagine that were he permit
ted now to return to us. and scan the po
litical literature that is being scattered
throughout our country by members of his
own party, a frown of .sorrow would be
cloud his beautiful face, and l. sign of pain
would penetrate his noble heart. If It be
political desperation which has driven those
in charge of the great Republican party to
resort to the measures published in their
literature, then I any. let the rest of uw
of what ever faith we may be. sympathize
with them, and allow none of that section
alism to permeate our beings, but let us dis
regard the taunt they have thrown, rise
higher and superior to it. aad work and
vote to accomplish the end of the greatest
good to all sections, and still let there be
no North, no South, no East, no West, no
nothing hut AMKRI- .
Tours truly.
gut rice.
into ci t new it urn.
And God Mid, “Let th«3 be light."
This «u a divine command.
The darkness was dispelled
And light shed abroad o'er the land.
But there ie ret a greater darkness
Than that hr the Almighty hand dispelled—
The darkness spread abroad by 'he monster
Ignorance.
In whose clutches many of our noblest
are held.
But for m>sae the day is dawn in; ;
Some the light are beginning to see.
Thanks to the illiteracy schools.
Soma from their fetters are free.
i Inasmuch as ye did it unto th» least of
these"
Did not the Master say?
Then shall we longer keep them In darkness
Or help drive the night assay?
Do not stand bac'. and wait for another
But put your heart and hand in the work.
She ie your sister—he is your brother.
Then why longer your duty shirk?
i
Tour life has been richly blessed:
You have drunk deep from wisdom's cup.
Then can't yon share with your brother—
Why not reach down sad lift him bp?
"Give, and it shall be given unto you.”
Tour blessings have been many—tbeir's sc
few.
Be not like the dead eea that receives and
give* nothing in return.
' Bet go over and help your brother
Whose soul for knowledge doth yearn.
—CORA LEE STEWART,
i CUo- Ala. ' '