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THE FARMER AND MECHANIC
ARE AMERICAN WOMEN PATRIOTS?
TELLS THE ENGLISH
OF OUR ATTITUDE
(DOKOTIIY M ITCH K IX.)
It has been the custom in past ages
when the country needed men that
they shouldered their guns and
marched in obedience to the call, and
we women have thrilled over their
brave deeds, sunt; sons to their
praise, organized ciuds to do them
honor and erected monuments to
their memory. Today, there is an
other call of the country, and it is not
the war bugle thank God for that ,
but it is the call of the farmer for a
market, the mills for a mercha: and
thousands of men and women for a
Job. Truly it is the call of the whole
country and this time it is ths women
it needs. Shall we women be patriotic
and come to the rescue, or shall we
still listen to the siren's song across
the seas and heed not the voices of
supplication of our countrymen?
Today is the time when we women
must show whether we are patriots of
our country or not by patronizing the
things made at home and start the
wheels turning unhesitatingly. We
say we love America, shall we prove it
by actions? Or, it is self and self
adornment that we love? We have
sung "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and
fallen down before a "Made in Ger
many" sign or a French style. People
tell us Germany is a great country
or was and .Paris is a great city
and shall we write it "used to be," but
do you know we American women
have made them what they are?
Neither of them could have flourished
as they have had it not been for the
American dollars going there every
year to bring away some fastidious
article. But you tell me the things
we get from abroad are art and the
Americans cannot make them. How
do we know that the American manu
facturer cannot make artistic articles
and fancy goods nor that there are
hundreds of wasted gems in our
country who could create art for us?
Have we given cither the proper
chance to show what they could do?
We go to Germany for all of our toys,
when we have hundreds of little boys
in the schools who can do splendid
carving and who show wonderful
talent in that line, and yet have they
had the proper chance to develop that
talent? One of the most skilltd
pieces of workmanship on a doll I
ever saw was made by a mountain
girl of North Carolina. It is true, it
was only a rag doll, but nothing I
have ever seen imported from Ger
many could equal it, and yet we say
"we can't do it" and have merely
folded our hands and allowed Ger
many to grow rich from our earnings.
Is This Patriotism?
And you who speak about "art"
from abroad, now honestly as an
utmost secret of your heart, are you
sure you know what art is? Are
there not lots of times when the sign
means more than the article iself?
We have patronized the "Made in
Germany" so much and to prove that
wo are fooled by it, American manu
facturers have often used the fake
sign in order to sell their goods. Is
this patriotism? It is a matter of
common knowledge that the Ameri
cans idea of art is considered a joke
in Europe and the foreign manufac
turers have taken advantage of the
American's ignorance and charged
exhorbitant prices for something
made by untalented and unskillful
lingers. We Americans have not
studied art, but have simply taken
for granted that anything with a
foreign label was art and that the
Made in America" label represented
anything but art. If we had an art
at home and encouraged it, studied it
and lived in an atmosphere of Ameri
can art, we would then not be duped
by foreigners putting off an unworthy
article upon us.
Shall we encourage our manufac
turers by buying things "Made in
America . and put the idle laborers
back to work and making a market
for the farmer's cotton that is not
one of charity as the "Buy-a-Bale"
movement impresses me, or shall we
still call for the foreign goods? The
American manufacturer needs the
support of the American women The
employes of the mills need us so that
they can become more and more
skilled in making goods that will
?,mpfi With the trade- We have
told them for many years that their
fingers could only make coarse ma
terial until some of them actually be
lieve it. But in spite of all we have
done to encourage the foreign manu
facturers, the Americans have made
goods and goods that we have had to
notice and with our encouragement
and patronage, they can do still bet
ter. It is true that they do make bet
ter goods abroad, but they made it
because there has been a market for
them and we have left the American
manufacturer to work along and sell
as best he could.
Give the American a Chance.
Shall we be patriots and give the
American a chance? Do we love our
country enough to love the sign
"Made in America?" Shall we wear
cotton dresses made in American
mills and wool grown from American
sheep and give up the foreign brand
and the French styles? Shall we be
soldiers and sacrifice in the time of
need? Suppose we do wear Ameri
can designs, for my part, I do not be
lieve we could make them any worse
than some of those extremes from
Paris.
As terrible as the war situation is,
I cannot help but believe that it will
work for good both to Europe and
America. for from it America
should learn the lesson of economy
and rely upon its own resources.
There should be no Norths no South,
no Kast nor West, but we as a nation
should stand together as Americans
for America. As for Europe when
the war spirit that has been brooding
in the nations of that continent has
been quenched. perhaps they will
view the awful tragedy that has
taught them the lesson and see the
folly of war and the whole world will
settle with them upon universal
peace. We can never call the world
civilized nor the nations Christian
until we have learned to settle dis
putes by brains and reason rather
than with the force of the sword.
On Thanksgiving Day we will give
thanks for our blessings. If there
is anything of which we Norht Caro
linians can be more thankful than for
the peace of our country, the cotton
of our fields and the mills of which
we have the greatest number in the
South that manufacture it? Would
it not be appropriate to the needs for
every woman to wear a cotton dress
on Thanksgiving Day?
Our country needs us today. It
has needed us for many years, but
more perhaps today than ever be
fore. The question that we shall an
swer by our actions is are we
patriotic?
HEART DISEASE.'
Dr. Thomas Lewis, Noted Specialist,
Says Few Persons Have Perfect
Organ.
Baltimore Evening Sun.
v..A,w?d of comfort to persons who
think that their death warrant has
been read to them when they are told
that they have a disease of the heart
was given by Dr. Thomas Lewis in an
interview this morning. Dr. Lewis is
in charge of the heart station at Uni
versity College, London, is the editor
of Heart" and is one of the most dis
tinguished heart specialists of the
world. He is here to deliver the Her
ter lectures at Johns Hopkins Medical
school. The most eminent men in
the medical profession in the world
have been brought here to deliver
those lectures.
"No," said Dr. Lewis, in answer to
a question, "to be told that one has
a disease of the heart is not by any
means equivalent to being handed
one s death warrant. As a matter of
fact, many diseases of the heart may
be regarded as of no more significance
than a lame leg. One may live and
work for years with such a disease
and,' as a matter of fact, few of us
have perfect hearts, as few of our
other orerans are nprfof t v..-i
that perhaps we physicians have ac
centuated too much the dangers and
the terror of diseases of the heart Of
course, such a disease means that one
must restrici one's activities a bit
uut uue niciy live long.
"It is trim that mo
have been performed on the heart in
recent years. Yes, on the surface of
the organ itself, although, of course,
if one of the chambers is penetrated
that means death.
In all discussions nf HicAoo t
heart the importance of laboratory
methods and animal experimentation
should be borne in mind. They are
of the greatest imaginable import
ance. It is only through them that
we have been able to make any pros-
1 me treatment or these dis
eases. The situation is just like that
in Which a. r1nrlr ia toirnn i i
. i.j ittivcu lu it, UIOUK-
maker for repair. If the clockmaker
were never allowed to take the case
off the clock h
about how to repair the instrument.
So it i3 in treating diseases of the
heart. Animal experimentation is of
the greatest importance to us."
Dr. Lewis is a typical Englishman
of scientific and scholarly habits. Of
about the average height, and slen
der, brown of hair and of eye, with a
closely cut brown mustache, he looks
a very young man, to have acquired
the great reputation he has made in
the difficult field dealing with obscure
diseases of the heart. His speech has
the distinctively English flavor.
"TAKE KAISER AS HOSTAGE"
Iaris Figaro Suggests Seizure Of
German Kings Also.
Paris cable to New York Sun.
The Figaro suggests the seizure as
7tt ,of. Saxe-Veimar. the Prince
(Henckel) von Donnersmark. the
Prince of Piess, the Prince von
Schaumburg-Lippe, the Duke von
Ljest and Duke of Brunswick, the
Kings of Saxony, Bavaria and Wurt
temberg and the Grand Dukes of Ba
den, Hesse and Oldenburg, in addi
tion to the Kaiser, against the pay
ment of 1,200,000,000 franes ($240 -000,000)
in indemnities already rais
ed by the Germans in captured
towns, irrespective of plain thefts bv
the officers and soldiers.
About the only difference in babies
is the difference in their mother's per
sonal opinions.
Harold Begbie 'Advises Ills Govern
ment to Reform the CensorshhJp
and Confer on Finance.
(London Cableto New York Times)
In The Chronicle this morning,
writing from New York, Harold
Begbie writes his impressions of the
American attitude toward the
belligerents in the nresent war. ' d
incidentally gives some advice to nis
ieuow-countrymen on the attitude
they should adopt toward the United
states, lie says:
In this article I endeavor to sum
marize conversations with manv pmi
nent and public men in America who
have been so good as to speak quite
iranKiy to me of the present situa
tion, in spite of the Presidential at
titude of neutrality.
I was told on the highest "authority
before I left London that America was
entirely satisfied with the British case
and that it would be unwise of Great
Britain to step down from her pedestal
oi traditional dignity and jostle shoul
ders with Germany in a rival rcuirt-
ship of America. "England " T was
told, "has impressed America by her
j ....
uegninea attitude and her decorous re
serve.
Now what does tnis mean? It means
tnat official England and official
America are on very good terms with
each other. It means that nithr
Mr. Asquith nor Sir Edward Grey
neeo trouble his head about the ca
pacity of President Wilson or Secre
tary Bryan to'iudsre between tht Brit
ish and the German cases. There is
no need for an English Bernstorff or
an English Dernburg to take up his
quarters in JNew York. Let England
preserve at all costs hrer trariitmnai
dignity. The "White Paper" crushes
the German at every fresh wriggle to
ward tne good graces of America
England need not concern herself any
further with America.
But official circles are not flpmnfra.
cies. The democracy of America is no
more studious or foreign Office docu
ments than the demoorarv nf arpat
Britain. America is busy and reads
newspapers and forerets from dav tn
day what it has read, and judges
cmeny Dy tne latest news fresh from
Berlin.
It is perfectly true that nothing
couiu De so unwise lor England to un-
uenaKe as a sordid cap-in-hand
courtship of America, such as the na
tion of culture is now prosecuting with
a perfection of organization that will
one dav astonish Prnfs RnnVon or
Harnack. But nothing could be so
luunsn as tne ignoring of the Ameri
can democracy bv the English demo
cracy. To let Germany send its news
dim its tracts and its agents of every
kind and degree, and to send nothing
from England this is stupid and al
most dangerous.
What can England do to seize the
opportunity now presented to her by
the sentiments and intellectual con
victions of America? First, let me
sa.y tnat never nas England stood so
high in the estimination of America,
and never has the shadow of the
Kaiser fallen more blackly
and ominously across the pages
or tne Monroe Doctrine. The
oeot tnat England owes to the news
paper world . of America cannot be
estimated. The editors of the best
journals have been fearless and verv
suicvu cnampions or the Allies'
cause. It is these editors who have
made the German monster a reality
to the American people, and this
quietly, with a most deadly logic We
have no better allies in America than
the editors of the great papers.
"We shall be the next. Americans
tell me; and they speak of South
America and Canada these men who
are free, and who hate militarism far
more than we hate it in England
"Your navy," one man said to me
"not only guards the British Empire-'
it guards the American Republic."
Another man of distinction said to
me; the club and everywhere I went
some such expression as, "Thank the
Lord we aren't in it!" T'vo n vw
.w . w v iiEatu
any such phrase for over a month. On
nie contrary, i ve neard expressions
of anxiety and confessions of re
pentance for past ignorance. You've
seen what Dr. Eliot of JTa
just said. That is immensely signi
ficant. But all over the
the same. Americans see that Ger
many is a worm menace, and that
unless democratic ideals ar tn
she must be resisted."
What can we do to lay the founda
tions, in this hour of mutual peril
of an Anglo-Saxon alliance?
First, we must reform our war oot
sorship. If we cannot get rid of it
at least we must place the best of
our journalists in that office and send
to America a continual stream of re
liable information not only about
battles, but about the messages sent
from Germany to deceive the world
At present news which has already
appeared in Germany is censored by
London on its way to New York! New
York resents with proper dignityand
yet with some amusement, this grand
motherly care of its intellect on the
part of the British censorship. Amer
ica expects to be treated by England
as a grown man and a fripnd
Secondly, we must seek by everv
just and honest means within our
power to restore financial confidence
I have excellent authority for mV
ing the statement that the New vT
Stock Exchange and th Vew v r?
Cotton Exchange would welcome ?S
proposal from th London Stock Fv
change and the Liverpool Cotton Fx"
change for a conference, it .
thought that representatives of the tw
Stock Exchanges could, if not hasten
the opening of the market, at l.r
do something to safeguard the invest
ing public when the Stock Exchange
are opened. In any case, it is f.jt
here by able and representative m. a
that such conferences would result m
a better understanding between th
two nations and lead eventually to
gTeater volume of business betw.-,-.
the two countries. ?
I am told that American financi. rj
have the greatest admiration for th
manner in which London has handlM
an extremely difficult situation, ar.i
that Wall street is profoundly 'grv
ful for certain good offices un Yh-j
part of the London Stock Exchange'
One of the leading men in n. ,v
York, speakingr of the visit to tvs
country of Sir George Parish, said' A,
me: "If England can do for the Amer
ican cotton trade what London hn
done for New York Stock Exehan
it would produce a very' profound im
pression in America. Our cotton
trade last year was worth 170 000 Ouo
pounds. This year the fall in pricM
reduces it to 110,000,000 pounds and
even at that price there is no m ir
ket."
A man of considerable eminence n
this country said to me last night'-
The most important thing for both
England and America is the restora
tion of confidence in th-i financial
worid. When this is done. a ,t
could be done by conferences
tween the two countries, England
might raise in American any loarj sh
needs to finish the war. And trad.!
would immediately begin to pick u;
again. I am inclined to say that
nothing could be suggested mor
likely to help an embarrassing situa
tion than this idea of a conference be
tween London and Wall street." This
same man also spoke with great
frankness of the almost boundless
prospects in trade for England and
America when the natural alliances
between the two countries is consum
mated. It must be borne in mind that
America is frightfully hard hit bv th.
war, that the stapping of AmeVican
ships by British cruisers off the .Hud
son River can easily be magnified mtj
annoyances by England's enemies;
that the arrest of the cotton trade in
America Is a deadly blow at American
prosperity, and that working peopl.j
out of employment, told that England
is the selfish tyrant who has force. l
peaceful Germany to fight for her ex
istence, will not be likely to recall th
"White Paper" in brooding over ihi
immediate question of their own emp
ty stomachs. England must know
that, if it is in her power to help
America, not only ought she to do ir,
but it would be of the very greatest
service to her future, political and in
dustrial, to render that help quickly
and generously.
I am convinced that educated Amer
ican sentiment is overwhelmingly with
the allies; but the longer the war laau
and the greater the suffering en
tailed upon democracy over here, th
more impatient will these hungry mul
titudes become with the whole situa
tion in Europe, and the more likely
will they be to clamor for a hasten J
peace.
And. let it be remembered, thesa
working people are sedulously court
ed by Germany in a hundred wins.
and much of the news which they read
in their papers is very largely colored
by the skies of Berlin.
Let England preserve her official at
titude of dignity and silence, by all
means: but let the bnsi n pss men or
England embrace the opportunity of
this hour as generously and cordially
as possible; for now is the time when
intelligent America, srreatlv resnect-
mg, admiring:, and liking England, is
more than willing to shake hands over
a long friendship.
We could not possess a stronger,
more stimulating, and mr. npn re-
loving friend. America completes England.
J. K. JEROME HERE TO READ.
English Humorist Says British Ana
Too Sad for Jokes.
New York Times.
Jerome K. Jerome th. Pnrriih hu
morist and playwright, arrived yester
day from Livprnnnl v, r
. --x'va v w liir kail 1 '
to give readings from his books in
tne--principal cities of the United
oiates. He said ?t -a-c c-
- T 0..-J yr T J I j. r- ;x 1 r
since he had been here, and, although
"TV onJy tw weeks, he look
ed forward to it with great intere-t.
fr.Z' .ifJomea aid h would read
iL Zhree Men in a Boat" and
tt ... o"- ui an mie r enow
e Will ern a fr - o- r . ....
and to Canada.
Pn7en, asd about conditions In
England. Mr. Jpmm i .
not wanted thpro
?ienLd y th losses of the battle-
,re,U9 ol ranee and Belgium.
TOO BUSY TO LEGISLATE.
Iteaaon Why More Business Men Are,
-Not Found In rvn
Xew York Herald.
A hat more than n oi- ,.t
representatives in rnroc. i ,
trs and only 15 per cent are business
. is, oe waned by our sprightly con
temporary. th Will i i
, - ..tin ; l i rri juui iiai.
WniCh Would liko tr,
arfairs reversed. If th r-rt
idnf? trad.e were to be long protract-
V ""S"1 oe accomplished; but
not otherwise. Th rMAn h,iaina
men are not Jn Oonres is that they
dont want to be there;' they are too
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