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Uneasy lies the head of a German chancellor.
How Liberty Bond Buyers
Will Beat the Kaiser.
“Soldiers win battles but wealth wins wars.”
•ays the Cobb County Times in urging the peo
ple of its district to buy Liberty bonds; and it
adds, with equal truth that “the success of a Gov
ernment loan during war times means more than
a victory on a twenty-mlle front.”
The people of Georgia as of the country at
large should get this idea vividly in their minds
and in their consciences. Those who remain at
home, on the farms. Ln the mills and shops and
offices and stores, have Just as definite a duty to
perform for their country as those in the training
camp* at the battle front and on the distant
watches of the sea. The fact that they are spared
the hardships and perils of the soldier’s life in no
wise absolves them from war service; on the con
trary, it makes their particular obligation the more
imperative. When a million Americans, the flower
of the nation’s young manhood, stand ready to
give their lives that the country may continue se
cure and honored and free, who that is not dead
of soul will refuse to support them by every means
he can muster?
We must support them with our money, whether
it be the surplus of an ample income or the savings
of a hard-earned wage, if their sacrifices are to be
availing. We must raise the second Liberty loan If
we are to win the war. We must buy Liberty
bonds to the full extent of our ability if we are
to prove loyal Americans and loyal Georgians.
This service is no less definite and no less impor
tant than that of the men under arms. While eco
nomic forces always have played a large part and
frequently a decisive part in the world’s great
wars, in this conflict they are of unprecedented in
fluence. In fact this is not so much a war of armies
as it is a war of peoples. The outcome depends
not slmplv on how many troops and how much
ammunition the belligerent camps can hurl, each
against the other, but on how much endurance
power, how much heart and faith and moral sinew
are massed behind the battle fronts. If this were
not true, the Kaiser would have won with the first
huge roaring flood of steel which he loosed upon
Belgium and France. The fact that today he stands
balked, his vandal hordes reeling back toward the
Rhine, his brutal amoltlon at bay, is due to the
steadfast and sacrificial loyalty with which the
PEOPLE of the Allied nations have stood behind
their men in the trench eg. So will it be the PEO
PLE of the United States who will deal the death
blow of Kaiserism by stanchly supporting their
army and unstintedly pouring their resources, ma
terial and moral, into this, the war’s decisive stage.
An oversubscription of the second Liberty loan
would be indeed a greater victory than If our
troops swept forward on a twenty-mlle front, for it
would signify a wholehearted American purpose
to see the war through to victory no matter the
cost or time. And In that invincible purpose, Ger
many would read defeat. The Kaiser would under
stand at last that he had not only an American
«rmy to cope with, but also the Amerian people,
hundred million strong. However bold a front
he and his Junkers might put on, they would know
tn their hearts that they were beaten And the
German people would know it
If prosperous States ilks Georgia do their full
duty, the Liberty loan will be oversubscribed to
twice or three times ths sum which the Government
■ska. The agricultural products of the South alone
amount this autumn to upwards of six billion dol
lar*—enough to absorb two loans like the one now
offered. Georgia farms together with the cities
and towns are blest with unexampled prosperity.
Bountiful crops are selling at record prices. Fac
tories are running to the limit of their capacity.
Trade to at » golden flood tide. Patriotism and
self-interest alike demand that a goodly portion of
this wealth be invested in the nation’s
cause. Let every Georgian buy Liberty bonds to the
extent of his capacity to save, and this good Com
monwealth will have struck a telling blow for
America, for victory and for peace
America is es quick to prepare as she was slow
to anger
Wheat Week in Georgia.
This is Wheat Week tn Georgia. For the next
six days and as much longer as may be needful,
patriotic farmers will give especial attention to
the preparation of the soil for planting at least
enough wheat to provide for their own households.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, Federal Food Administrator
for the State, says that “from three to five acres
properly cultivated should supply the average fam
ily of five persons with all the flour necessary.”
Evidently there is no need of any rural family in
Georgia going beyond its own farm or neighbor
hood for the staff of life. But our planters can do a
great deal better than meet merely their own
needs. They can raise wheat enough to reduce by
many thousands and. tens-of-thousands of bushels
Georgia’/ demand upon the granaries of the West;
and by so doing they will render a distinct na
tional service as well profit themselves.
A woman is as old as she looks: a man as he is
prosperous.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1917.
The Southeastern l air.
The auspicious opening of the 1917 Southeast
ern Fair accords well with the character and mer
its of that distinctive exposition. No measure of
popular approval or material success could exceed
the deserts of this enterprise. The preceding
Fairs at Lakewood have been highly creditable,
but they were merelj’ foreshadowings of the one
now in progress. It is doubtful, indeed, that any
State or any section in the entire I nion ever be
fore staged an exposition so varied in its products
and so rich both in entertainment and instruction.
The agricultural exhibits are a revelation of
what the farmers of the Southeast are doing to
promote national prosperity and win the war. For
years past the production of foodstuffs has been
making notable headway in Georgia and neighbor
ing States, but the results of the 1917 campaign
to this end. as witnessed in the Southeastern Fair,
are nothing short of astounding. Under the stim
ulus of war time necessity and patriotism our ag
riculture has made greater strides, as far as food
crops are concerned, during the past twelve
months than formerly it would have made in a
decade. This is a vital part of Southern history
and of American history, for it means new strength,
new freedom, new service. As an exposition of
these achievements alone, the Southeastern Fair
would be broadly and intensely interesting.
But in addition to its wealth of agricultural
displays, the Fair presents a livestock and cattle
show which seldom has been equaled anywhere in
America. It presents an automobile and indus
trial show which of itself would be well worth a
long journey to see. And besides these and divers
other educational features, the Fair offers a con
tinuous round of well chosen and wonderfully
varied amusements. Coming in the wake of the
South's most golden harvests and at the height of
far-showering prosperity, the Southeastern Fair
should and doubtless will draw a record-breaking
attendance throughout the week. /
Those German plotters don’t seem to have even
a reading acquaintance with Sherlock Holmes.
More German Perfidy. .
During the last three years Americans have be
come so accustomed to German trickery, treachery
and trouble-making propensities—ever holding fore
most the Lusitania, Belgium and Serbia —that it
takes something more than ordinary barbaric
grossness to arouse even a ripple of excitement.
The kultur of Germany has inspired most every
thing their criminally elastic consciences cau
abide or murderous brains evolve until nowadays
any German crime must be particularly heinous
to command more than passing attention.
But quite recently there came to light another
glaring instance of German duplicity as directed
toward their former ally, Italy. It is mentioned
here only because it is in perfect keeping with Teu
ton crimes the world-over.
Italy declared war on Austria in May, 1915,
but it was not until August, 191 G, that she di
rected hostilities against Germany. In June, 1915,
Italian mine-sweepers found a barrier of twelve
mines near an Italian naval base. These were
cleared away but a few days later a similar bar
rier was found in the same spot. These mines
could only have been placed by a submarine and a
close watch was kept for the undersea boat. In
March of last year a mine sank the hostile craft
in shoal water and hence it was no great trick to
have a good look at her.
The investigation showed the boat to be the
U-C 12, built at the Weser yards by a German
flrm. The log of the undersea craft showed that
she was towed through the Keil canal in May,
1915, and immediately began the dirty work of
laying mines in Italian waters, meanwhile ex
changing the German flag for Austrian colors. The
log also revealed the interesting fact that the ship
carried rifles to an African port for the rebels
against Italy.
At peace with the United States this modern
butcher plotted to have Japan and Mexico make
war upon this country. At peace with Italy this
nation of kultur lays death-dealing mines in Ital
ian harbors. And still there are a few people who
are outraged because the United States and the
Entente Powers are determined to have done with
Prussianism for all time.
♦ j
The kaiser should recall that, not even Napo
leon could carry out a winter campaign in Russia.
Think of the veterans’ reunions in store for this
country?
Where the War Will Be Won.
What has become of the old-fashioned opinion,
held by some high strategists both In the Allied
and the Teuton camps, that the war would be
decided in the East? Time and again during the
first two years of the conflict events lent a color
of likelihood to that theory. Had the Entente
attack on the Dardanelles succeeded, or the Ger
man thust into the Balkans been carried far
enough to become a menace to British power in
the Levant, or If the advantages which the Rus
sians, first under Grand Duke Nicholas and later
under Bruslloff, gained against Austria had been
duly sustained, or if the Teuton drive upon Ru
mania had expanded into the far-continued cam
paign which once was predicted, or if the Allied
army based at Salonikt had carried out the often
rumored plan of recovering Serbia and pressing
on into Austria—had any of these possibilities
materialized at a favorable conjunction of circum
stances, the prediction that the war would be
decided in the East might have been fulfilled.
Rut all the elements in the present situation
point to the Western front as the decisive field.
Particularly does this appear true since the Rus
sian disorganization. The Allies now must look
to their Western forces, along with those of valor
ous Italy, to strike the telling blows; and Ger
many must look to her Western lines for the de
fense to which she is reduced. It is there that the
major strength of both sides will be mustered and
by reason of Russia’s present, inaction Germany
can do a good deal of effective concentrating. It
is there, too. that American troops will march
for the great, victory-bringing blow against
Kaiserism.
We rather agree with General Pershing that
the American soldiers should use pistols and rifles
as well as bayonets and clubs.
If American preparations are so effective, im
agine what active participation in the war
would do.
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
—< —.
By H. Addington Bruce
—•>. —
IN his remarkable work, ‘‘lnstincts of the Herd
in Peace and war”—to my mind one of the
most stimulating of the many books grow
ing out of the great war—Dr. W. Trotter makes
this statement:
‘‘When the twenty years just passed came to
be looked back upon from the distant future, it is
probable that their chief claim to interest will be
that they saw the birth of the science of abnormal
psychology.”
At first thought this may be deemed a singular,
even a preposterous, assertion. Hut consider.
Until abnormal psychology came into being, the
world was staggering along under a heavy and
seemingly irremovable burden of vice, crime, in
efficiency, pauperism, insanity, and nervous dis
ease.
As civilization grew more complex, the burden
steadily became heavier, in spite of drastic laws
and earnest humanitarian zeal.
To many it seemed—to many it still seems —
absolutely impossible to find a means of relief
from a situation threatening civilization itself
with collapse. '
‘There is nothing that can be done,” was the
despairing cry. “Mankind is degenerating. W 6
can only struggle impotently till the end comes.’
In opposition to this pessimistic attitude, ab
normal psychology holds out a new and glowing
promise.
At the outset of his labors the abnormal psy
chologist said to himself:
“Vice, crime, inefficiency, pauperism, insanity,
and nervous disease obviously represent, not mere
ly imperfections in human behavior, but imper
fections in human thought.
~ “If the vicious man did not think wrongly, he
would not behave as he does. If the criminal’s
inode of thinking were not unsound he would not
steal and kill.
“Likewise with the inefficient, the paupers, the
insane, and the nervous. Let us find out why these
think wrongly, and perhaps we can help them to
think aright. At all events we can surely help
others to avoid following in their steps.”
Then began, for the first time, scientific study
of individuals who think, hence behave, abnormal
ly.
Already many a discovery of inestimable im
portance to mankind has flowed from this study.
Foremost among these discoveries, beyond any
question, is the bringing to the full light of scien
tific recognition the basic truth that the great de
termining factors in adult behavior are the en
vironment and training of early childhood.
“Mankind is not degenerating,” the abnormal
physchologist proclaims. “But men are not being
trained in the first years of life as they ought to be
trained.
“They are not being trained to reason, they
are not being trained in emotional control. Train
them sooner, train them more intensively, give
them in their first years a really wholesome en
vironment, and you need have little fear as to their
futures.
“It is in earl?' education that the solution of
the problems of vice, crime, inefficiency, pauperism,
insanity, and nervous disease is chiefly to- be
found.”
Rapidly evidence is accumulating to bear out
this hopeful view.
Later years, I personally am persuaded, will
witness its complete vindication. And with its vin
dication all will appreciate the soundness of Dr.
Trotter’s prophecy:
“When the twenty years just past come to be
looked back upon from the distant future, it is
probable that their chief claim to interest will be
that they caw the birth of the science of abnormal
psychology.”
In fine, I believe with Dr. Trotter that abnor
mal psychology is opening up a wonderful era in
the evolution of the human race.
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ENVY
4—
By Dr. Frank Crane
ENVY is the unpleasant feeling 1 have when I
learn of another’s success.
Why it exists I don’t know. No explana
tion explains.
The most satisfactory explanation is that it is
a remnant of the beast nature left in us, as yet un
ellminated by evolution, but that is a poor one, too,
because a beast only feels bad when another beast
secures what he (the first beast) wants, whereas
“man, proud man” has a grouch when he sees you
having what he does not want at all.
Envy is the shadow cast by success. Whoever
succeeds angers his fellows who did not succeed.
The ordinary pedestrian hates the man in the
automobile; it irritates him to have to stop to let
the car go by, or to be tooted at when he is in the
road.
Hating Rockefeller. Carnegie, and Morgan is a
national pastime. We have nothing against them.
Only they’re rich. And we are not.
Os course we don’t admit it. We deny the al
legation and defy the alligator. Rut the little
grudglet is in our hearts just the same. Why
couldn’t I have been rich, instead of those men?
Why couldn’t I have all that money, instead of
Rarney Raruch?
There’s a little hurty spot in the heart of every
plain woman when she sees the Lillian Russell,
Rillie Rurke sort of person.
Why do we love gossip? Why do our ears cock
up when somebody says in a low tone of voice,
“Did you hear the latest scandal about the angel
Gabriel?”
If anybody’s up, why do we want to take
him down? Do we want to throw insinuations at
any one who is conspicuous for the same reason
boys like to shoot at railway signs?
Have you heard that about Geraldine Farrar?
Why, buzz buzz buzz. And the?’ say that President
Wilson has buzz buzz buzz. buzz. And the preacher,
he was actually seem to buzz buzz buzz buzz. Isn’t
it dreadful?
And doesn’t it taste good, you low-life?
I like human nature, but it has surely one rot
ten spot In it. It is the envy spot.
I cannot fathom for-the life of me why T
should be pleasantly affected by another's misfor
tune. It must be an unassimilated chunk of orig
inal sin left in me.
Rut envy is the price of fame. With all its
drawbacks we love conspicuity. We’d rather be
the hatee than the haters.
Mieiix vaut envle que pltie, say the French—
better be envied than pitied.
T suppose envy is pride, reserved. And pride
in any shape is detestable. I suppose it is selfish
ness. instinctively functioning.
1 love the spot-light, T want the front page, I
want to be ft. look at me everybody—so this little
squeaking mouse of an egotistic me goes about
begging attention from men and angels.
There are some persons who deny they ever
have any such feeling. I'd deny it myself, if you
asked me.
Rut. heaven forgive us* the little nasty streak
is in us all. and if anybody knows any kind of pat
ent medicine, pill, or violet ray that will eliminate
it. let him now speak.
(Copyright. 1917,. by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
The small henpecked man. whose wife had sent
him to enlist, was being overhauled by the army
doctor, getting more and more nervous as the ex
amination proceeded.
“Have you led a fast kind of life at all?” said
the doctor at last. “Gone In much for dissipation
or anything of that sort?”
The little man hesitated a moment, then re
plied, in a thin, piping voice: “I—l sometimes
smoke a cigarette.”
SCIENCE MADE POPULAR —By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., October 12. —Every day
dozens of sightseers visit the national
museum. Usually, they Intend to spend
only a few minutes on their way from the capltol
to the treasury—just to see if it compares favor
ably with the picture on the postcard—and they
end by staying hours. For here, at last, science
has condescended to speak the language of the peo
ple. At last natural history has been made
natural.
* * ♦
Instead of stiff, stuff?' figures on square pedes
tals. there are life-like animal groups posed amid
their native scenery. An animal is shown tread
ing the same kind of ground he trod in real life—
sometimes the actual ground itself, which has been
gathered and shipped in with the specimen. The
bushes, branches and stones that were about him
in his native habitat are about him. In short, the
visitor does not have to read a card to know that
an animal is native to Arctic regions or the tropics.
If you observe very closely the visitors mean
dering through the animal collections you will find
that while a few of them do not read the cards at
tached to the cases, the majority of them do. Their
curiosity is aroused by the various details pre
sented in each group. And this is the reward of
science for having made itself popular. Instead of
helping to educate a few students and interest a
few professors, it is helping to educate the masses.
This is the triumph of the new taxidermy.
* * •
The new art of taxidermy was not solved, how
ever. without a strong protest from the scientific
conservatives. For years a taxidermist was little
more than an upholsterer. He stuffed his animals
with straw, stuck a couple of glass eyes in each
head, and considered his work finished. It was
enough to know that any scientist visiting the
museum would recognize the species. Then a few
naturalists began to enter the profession. To them
the ordinary stuffed animal was revolting, and the?'
began to apply their skill in taxidermy towards
achieving more natural effects.
♦ • •
There is some doubt as to who made the first
animal group, but it is certain that the stir it caused
was not less than that caused by the first Cubist
picture. Now the newer taxidermj’ is practiced all
over the country, although some museums still
cling to the old methods. The modern taxidermist
is not an uph’olsterer but a sculptor, and many
things besides. He is an anatomist, a naturalist,
and sometimes an explorer and collector as well. A
Smithsonian taxidermist is now in Australia gath
ering specimens, which he will later mount.
• * «
The taxiderm? work contiected with the na
tional museum is carried on in a large two-story
shed behind the Smithsonian building. Most peo
ple mistake it for a stable. Inside, no effort has
been made to maintain the careful neatness of all
the other government scientific quarters. The floor
is splattered with white plaster; cans of paint and
paint brushes are strewn about the floor, and the
walls are decorated wnth all sorts of skins and
plaster casts, from monkeys to sea cows. Strapped
to the ceiling is a California whale fourteen feet
long. The other day a young taxidermist was at
work on the plaster cast of a big wolf, whose
beautiful, yellowish-white skin hung on a rack
above him. On a table was Its skull, containing a
set of teeth that had once been the terror of a
certain part of Montana.
• * ♦
This animal had been captured only after a
long and arduous campaign waged against him by
Montana horse-owners, whose stock he had killed
In large numbers. For months he matched his
cunning against the craftiness of ranchmen, and
always won. In vain did they set traps for him.
He could not be induced to touch poisoned meat,
and he could sense an iron trap a mile off, having
once lost part of his foot in one. Rut success
made him careless, and eventually the ranchers trl-
AMERICANS IN FRANCE—By Herbert Corey
a MERICAN FIELD HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 1.
—American soldiers in France are under
*■ going every experience of actual war except
killing and being killed.
They are almost ready to go forward to the
trenches.
Their officers hope this will not be long delayed.
Rain fell last night. These limestone hills of
France were streaming with water. The main
roads leading up to the remote tableland on which
one organization was at work were slimy on the
surface, and the underbody had been torn to pieces
by the heavy carts. The trials branching off from
these roads are hardly distinguishable by day. Here
and there sticks have been erected. Between each
pair of sticks a tap of white cloth has been tied.
All day long the trenches on the top of these
rolling hills had been held by one unit. The pre
sumption was that they were under continuous
fire. The trenches are real trenches —identical in
every respect with those in which they will live
later on. There are dugouts in them thirty feet
deep. Sometimes these are connected by tunnels.
In front of the advanced line are the wires and the
listening posts. In the trenches are the machine
gun emplacements and the ammunition magazines
and the telephone system. There is a gridiron of
trenches, just as on the front.
When darkness came the men in the advanced
line were on the alert. Somewhere out in front
there was a prowling and dangerous theoretical
enemy. The enemy took kindly to the job. If one
of the enemy men managed to crawl up to the
advanced line, under the wire, through the mud,
under the soaking rain, past the listening posts, he
thereby “got a horse” on the unfortunates in that
line. The enemy hoped tthe officers would speak
as unkindly to “them fatheads” as they deserved.
He chuckled as he ran down hill to try it over.,
LIKE REAL WAR.
The enemy was aided by the veritable shell
holes scattered about. It is true these shell holes
had been excavated in the story ground by a pick,
but they are perfect duplicates of the real thing.
The one thing that was missing were those shape
less bundles of sodden cloth that once were men,
which one sees in No Man’s Land at the front. The
star shells occasionally shed a greenish light over
the scene. Behind them the seventy-fives spoke oc
casionally. with blank shells, it is true, but the
noise aided the youngsters to Imagine themselves
at real war.
At 2 o’clock in the morning rne men in the vil
lage la-bas were turned out of their warm blankets
and sent forward to relieve the men in the front
trench. They swattered along the streaming roads.
They felt their way over the hills, along the trails
that are dim in daylight, aided now and then by
the strips of white linen tied to sticks, and which
gave them their directions. The men who became
the new enemy, in order to let the old enemy go
home and get dry and warm and rested up, were
told to “dig themselves in.” They advanced across
the field and “dug in” at the word of command,
and held there until a pale and sodden light ap
peared upon the hills.
This is hard and intensive training. So far as
actual discomforts go—barring those added lux
uries of war which craw) by night—the Americans
are undergoing just what the men are on the front.
The one thing missing is death and dismember
ment As yet the men are remarkably chipper
and bright. They take everything as a game which
must be well played, not only for the game’s sake,
but because the punishment for not playing the
game well will later on be something they prefer
not to think about.
They are cheerful and jolly in their quarters.
As yet no "grouch” worth the name has been heard
of. They play tag with huge roars of laughter, tag
being one of the means the French use to compel
their men to speed and agility, and taken over bv
us. They have no means of amusement worth
sneaking of, but they manage to keep themselves
amused after a fashion.
The net result of this training is that their
umphed, even as they triumphed over Mr. Seaton
Thompson’s “King Lobo.” One evening a hunter
dragged his carcass into the village amid the ac
clamations of the relieved populace, and Mon
tana’s reign of terror was over.
* ♦ •
Soon this wolf, in all the ferociousness of his
ferocious personality, will be behind a glass case
in the national museum, causing nervous chills to
wander up and down the spines of little boys and
girls. For so life-like are the figures produced by
the new taxidermy that visitors to the museum
never fail to cast a few awed glances at some of
the specimens. The other da?' a little girl grabbed
her mother’s hand as they stood gazing at the
group of Roosevelt lions. She knew they weren’t
real, she said, but she was glad the glass case was
there.
* * *
The young taxidermist who is making this wolf
first made a clay model of one he observed in the
national zoo. Rut it did not suit him. It showed
the wolf with his head pointed in a mild, inquir
ing attitude not at all in keeping with his Mon
tana history. So the taxidermi» r -nade another
model, which shows him prowling along with his
head lowered and his teeth bared in a snarl. The
teeth effect will be procured by using the actual
skull, and a bit of Montana scenery will be repro
duced as his background.
♦ • •
In ignominious proximit?' to the skin of this
erstwhile terrible character on the rack in the
Smithsonian taxidermy studio is a pigskin, which
is the next in order to be mounted. “The pig will
be much easier to mount than the wolf,” said the
taxidermist, “for I have his bones.” And he held
up a vertebrae a yard long, which was once the
pig’s back, and a few miscellaneous bones which
doubtless once performed the duty of legs. "All I
shall have to do,” he continued, ’ls to put this
skeleton together, cover it with a plaster cast and
glue the skin on.”
♦ • •
When asked what the new taxidermy did when
it wanted eyes for animals, he went to a chest of
drawers in one corner of the studio and pulled out
several small drawers. They were full of little
compartments containing glass eyes. Occasionally,
a manufactured eye would not do and it was neces
sarj- to paint an eye and then cover it with glass,
he said. Then he held up a box of black-headed
pins of the type popular with ladles who search
for notion-counter bargains. “For rats and mice,”
he said. In one of the compartments were a few
glass eyes with long narrow pupils. These were
for deer.
• • •
The foliage, shrubbery and soil that make the
background of so many groups in the museum are
not manufactured in this studio. Usually these
"props” are sent in from the scene of the hunt, or
else the?’ are made In wax and painted by a woman
expert who is employed by the Smithsonian for
that purpose. The latter work is done so cleverly
that the visitor rarely suspects the use of wax. In
the museum, for example, there is a group of moose
in the midst of small trees. Since these moose live
chiefly on the young succulent branches of such
trees, one of the group is shown with a branch
clinched firmly betwen a set of large white teeth.
The whole thing is so marvelously executed that
you can almost see the branch moving.
• * *
One of the most Interesting groups in the mu
seum is that of the East African water buffalo, pro
cured on the Roosevelt expedition to Africa. There
are several buffalo In the group, some of which
stand six-feet high amid tropical underbrush, with
srow-white cow-herons perched on their backs.
This sight is so unusual that everyone always stops
to read the card to one side of the case. Tt explains
that the cow-herons have accompanied the buffaloes
through the bushes in order to harvest the grass
hoppers and insects aroused by the passage of ths
beasts through the undergrowth.
physical condition leaves nothing to be desired.
They march tirelessly, they are hard as steel rivets,
and they eat prodigiously. Their officers feel the
time is nearing when they will be ready for the
first touch of the trenches. The fear is that the
repetition of these harmless exercises will become
monotonous to them, so they will grow careless
and unobservant. They will go through their work
without giving thought to it, not knowing what
their first trench tour will teach them, that every
action is of infinite importance. z
“The American does not excel in obedience or
in attention to detail,” said one of our officers. “No
men could behave better than our men. but they do
not yet realize that if they advance two yards when
they are told to advance one yard, that extra yard
may bring death to some of them. They do not
realize that in following a barrage fire they must
follow at the pace ordered, and not at the pace they
like better. Only a touch of the trench will bring
these things home.”
No indication has been given as yet when they
will be sent forward. That is a matter which hangs
on broader issues. These men may be made over
into veterans for the training of their comrades
who are on the w’ay, or the “blooding,” may be de
ferred until there is an American army here that is
real in numbers and equipment as well as In spirit«•
and condition only. Whatever the decision may be.
there is confidence among men and officers it will
be a wise one.
HIGH POTASH-BEARING SLATES RE
CENTLY DISCOVERED IN GEORGIA
By W. S. McCallie, State Geologist
A slate deposit has recently been discovered m
Georgia by the state geological survey, which
seems to be an excellent raw material for the ex
traction of potash. The deposit referred to occurs
near White’s Station, Bartow county, ten miles
north of Cartersville, where it forms a belt at least
six miles long, a quarter of a mile or more wide
and fully 300 feet thick.
The remarkable feature of this slate is its high
potash content. A large number of samples taken
from different points along the outcropping show
more than 9 per cent potash, which is from two to
four times the amount found in common slate.
Mr. Shearer, assistant state geologist, who has re
cently made a microscopic study of this slate,
finds that it is made up largely of sericite and
feldspar, two of our most common potash-bearing
minerals.
The slate is of a light-gray color, comparatively
free from iron, has an excellent cleavage, and oth
erwise possesses all the qualities of a first-class
roofing slate.
The unusually high potash contents of this
slate, together with proximity to transportation,
uniformity of composition, favorable conditions for
mining and almost inexhaustible supply seem to
offer more favorable conditions for the extraction
of potash from silicates than any potash-bearing
silicates heretofore discovered.
The chemical composition of this slate is shown
by the following analysis made in the laboratory
of the state geological survey:
Analysis of slate from Yancey property:
Silica. 54.66; alumina. 26.14; ferric oxide,
3.28; ferrous oxide, 3.17: magnesia. 3.09; lime,
.00; soda, 1.08; potash. 9.39; ignition. 3.51; mdiu
ture. .14; carbon dioxide, .00; titanium dioxide,
1.01; phosphorus pentoxide." .00; sulphur trioxide,
.00; sulphur (S>, .10; manganous oxide, .00; ba
rium oxide, .00. Total 99.53.
Bernstorff sent some of his plots out of the
country in a hogshead of tobacco, probably on the
assumption that they would go up in smoke,
anyway.
