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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga.
The South's “Seven Gates'
THE Shipping Board's allotment of nine
new steel vessels to South Atlantic
trade comes as another cheering de
velopment for the ports of Wilmington,
Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jack
sonville, and as well for Mobile and New Or
leans. These “seven doors to South Ameri
ca,” as the Birmingham Ledger happily terms
them, have hitherto been closed, or but scant
ly used, because, as our contemporary puts
it, “Ships have been lacking to carry cargoes;
freight rates have been adjusted as though
New York were the rdained port of the en
tire country; and the goods to ship were not
being manufactured.”
These diccouragements are now fast yield
ing. The ships allotted by the Government are
only part of a service which private construc
tion will steadily augment. Freight rates
are being readjusted so that exporters in
the great manufaturing centers of<he Middle
West, who heretofore have been virtually com
pelled to route Lati.i-American shipments
through New York, an avail themselves of
the more covenient and commodious out
lets of the Southern coast. There are heart
ening indications, moreover, that Southern
producers themselves are perceiving their rich
opportunities in Latin-American trade and are
preparing to exploit them.
For Georgia the enrichment thus possible
through her own excellent ports should stir
the entire State's imagination and energy.
Interior towns and cities no less than those
directly on the ocean trade routes should co
operate to the end that their common inter
ests in this field of enterprise may be ad
vanced. That it is a field worthy of the best
efforts of practical and farsighted men is at
tested by the fact that the business leader
ship of most of the South Atlantic and Gulf
States stands already organized for this very
purpose. Georgia cannot afford to lag.
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Apologizing for Germany,
ENATOR Thomas, of Colorado, whose
constituents, if we may judge from
the press of that State, heartily dissent
from his present views, opposes the Peace
Treaty on this extraordinary ground:
“My opinion is that this is a victor’s
treaty, a treaty of force, a treaty of
punishments, of partitions, a treaty
burdened with conditions accepted by
the vanquished only at the point of the
sword.”
Well, what if it is? Did the Senator ever
expect any other sort of treaty from such a
war as that which Germany thrust upon civil
ization .’ Does he fancy that Prussianism
would have yielded to any argument other
than force, or that the world would be safe
under any settlement which left Prussianism
unpunished? As for “partitions,” will the
Colorado Senator and his companion apolog
ists for Germany point out just which Ts the
peoples emancipated from the Teuton voke
should be dragged back to the old oppres
sion? And as lor “conditions accepted by the
vanquished only at the point of the sword,”
how else, pray, does he imagine the burners
Oi Louvaine and the sinkers of the Lusitania
accepting anything not to their liking?
We must say, however, that Senator
Thomas’ outspoken objection to the Treaty
on the ground that it is too harsh to the fol
lowers of Hindenburg and Hohenzollern is
more to be respected than the pretexts from
which some other opponents are waging am
bush war against the President and against
the Allies. It is better to plead the German
cause openly than under cover of picayunish
carpings against the League cif Nations. The
American people are tired of every sort of
needless delay contrived to defeat the Treaty
of Peace, but especially are they tired of cam
ouflage.
1 he Plea oj “Old Hickories,''
THE “Old Hickory” Division is as wise
in peace as it was valiant in war. By
a well-nigh unanimous vote of its
eighteen thousand veterans, it has memorial
ized the United States Senate to ratify the
Peace Treaty, including the League of Na
tions Covenant, without amendments and
wtihout needless delay. This is a peculiarly
significant appeal, coming from a body of
Americans who played so decisive a part in
the last critical stages of the war and whose
record is truly described as being “written
with flame, carved with steel and sealed witn
blood.”
There was no tinge of politics in the Old
Hickory’s earnest resolutions; there was noth
ing but thoughtful patriotism. As men who
had followed the flag into the war's grimmest
reaches and hazarded their all for their coun
try, they ask that the peace which they fought
to win be made secure and .that the sacrifice
of their comrades left sleeping by the battle
fields of France be not left unavailing. They
rightly reason that without some buwark and
conserver of international peace and justice,
such as the League of Nations affords, the
courage and the sacrifice may prove at last
to have been in vain. For it the world is to go
back to its old ways of distrust, intrigue and
militaristic competition ,it is as certain to
reap another harvest of ghastly war as epi
demics spring from unguarded contagions.
The American army and fleet did not fight
for a mere armistice 'or a transient peace.
The American people did not shoulder bil
lions of taxes just for a few years’ lull in a
storm of blood. Those who won the war and
those who are paying the bill want the fruits
of their loyalty safeguarded and the triumph
of their faith insured. That is why they want
the Treaty and the League ratified without
more quibbling.
King Albert of Belgium will learn that
democratic America still has a liking for
kings-*-kings of Belgium, in particular.
Bolshevism is another word for grouch
High rime For a Treaty Fot e..
MR. David Lawrence, as keen-eyed and
fair-minded an observer as ever
wrote of current events, concludes a
review of President Wilson’s recent trip
across the continent with this significant
remark:
“Everywhere, and I “believe the opin
ion of the traveling correspondents was
unanimous on this point, the demand
for quick action by the Senate on the
Treaty is absolutely unmistakable. The
people have the fixed idea that there
has been enough discussion and that it
is time for a vote.”
The proverbially dangerous delay was
never more deplorable than on this great
issue, at this critical time. It is now' little
short of eleven months since the armistice
was signed and the world’s tired eyes turned
gratefully to a promise of peace. It is near
ly six months since the Paris conference
finished drafting a Treaty that was accept
able to representatives of all the leading
Powers associated in the war against Ger
many. It is some three months since that
Treaty "was submitted to the Senate For
eign Relations Committee. Yet, we are to
day no nearer peace, in so far as its proper
fruitage is concerned, than we were last
autumn when Hindenburg stood sullenly
defiant.
Neither America nor Europe has regained
a normal pulse, or recovered economic poise.
The world still moves in painful incerti
tude, our own nation along with others, not
knowing what a season may bring forth, ifit
daring to settle into carefreeness for the
future, not able to take up the great common
tasks of reconstruction with an assured and
tranquil mind. Amerca’s status in interna
tional affairs, her relationships to those by
whose side she fought and those against
whom she fought, are quite undefined. No
one can say whether she is to join the
other defenders of freedom in the Paris
Treaty, or is to desert them and make a
separate peace with Germany? No one can
say whether there is to be a League of the
world’s moral and material forces for the
prevention of war, in so far as human
agencies can contribute to that good end,
or whether the old evil order of intrigue and
militaristic competition is to return? No one
can say what will be America’s place in the
world’s estimation and the world s affairs
six months from now —wether that of a
friendly and befriended co-worker m the
vast labors of rehabilitation, or an isolated
Power, living unto itself and for itself alone,
and bearing the earthwide reproach of in
glorious selfishness. Our economic status,
our political status, our moral status is yet
to be determined. And our whole future
hangs upon the decision.
Is it to be wondered, then, that the peo
ple, intuitively sensing the situation and
realizing that we can have no real peace, no
fruitful peace, until these doubts are resolved
is it to be wondered that they wish an end
of factional discussion and a Senate vote that
will bring certainty and reassurance? We
have dwelt all too long in a twilight zone be
tween war and peace. Let the Treatj be
ratified without further delay.
Georgia Farm Markets
VA.LDOSTA lays claim to the happy dis
tinction of providing a dependable
market for virtually every kind of
product that the farms of its vicinity bring
forth —food crops and food animals as well
as cotton. Surely a town can render no
more substantial service to its neighboring
country, and none that will contribute more
to Its own upbuilding.
The progress of diversified agriculture,
with its wide-reaching stimulus to business
development, depends upon marketing facili
ties. Cotton was long king in Georgia, to a
tyrannous extent, not because it was in
herently more profitable than other crops,
but because it could be converted readily into
cash, or readily used as collateral for loans,
whereas other farm products had irregular
and very uncertain market prospects. A
planter could bring a load of cotton to town,
deposit it at the warehouse, and with the re
ceipt therefor obtain credit from the bank
around the corner. But if he brought in a
load of, say, sweet potatoes, the chances were
that after hawking through divers neighbor
hoods, he would have to take them back home
to spoil in his cellar, or else sell them for a
beggarly pittance. So long as these condi
tions prevailed, it was inevitable that cotton
should continue kaiser, and diversified pro
duction lag.
Yet all the while there was a statewide de
mand for food animals and food crops as
was evidenced in the fact that Georgia spent
hundreds of millions of dollars annually in
the purchase of those necessaries from the
distant West. Mloreover, as agricultural
specialists all declared, there was more profit,
more real and permanent profit, in food
production than in cotton. The problem,
then, was how to link the producer with the
consumer; how to provide here at home
mediums through which the farmer could dis
pose of those products for which, paradoxi
cally enough, there was a big demand but no
market.
In helping to solve that problem, Valdosta
and similarly enterprising towns have done
the cause of agriculture incalculable service
and have laid broad foundations for their
own prosperity. To the bean mills, canning
factories, grain and forage warehouses, pota
to canning plants, packing plants and other
marketing facilities, Georgia is largely in
debted foi’ the fact that she now produces
on her own soil many millions of dollars’
worth of food staples which she formerly im
ported from the West. A board of trade or
chamber of commerce can engage in no more
useful enterprise than that of making a
thorough survey of the food production of
its adjacent country and then providing the
market accommodations and connections
needful.
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An Anti-Malaria Drive.
TAKING notice of the American Anti-
Malaria Association which is to be or-
ganized at Florence, Alabama, in mid-
October, the Birmingham News remarks: “It
is appropriate that a national drive for free
dom from malaria should begin this country,
and peculiarly fitting that it should be start
ed at Mifscle Shoals, towards which eyes of
the naton have been turned for many months.
The movement began with an effort to ex
tirpate malaria in the Tennessee river district
where large Government works are located.
Its importance gives ample cause for hope
that it may be extended to function for the
benefit of millions of persons who populate
the lowlands of this continent.”
This latter suggestion is aptly made, for
it is an altogether erroneous idea that ma
laria is a southern malady. The rigors of
the far north are in themselves no guarantee
against the disease. Western States in a far
higher latitude than Alabama have been
among the acutest sfferers from malaria, but
by draining their swamp lands and taking
simple hygienic precautions they have shaken
off, or more fitly speaking, have shooed
away, their old enemy. Abolish the breeding
places of the malaria-bearing mosquito, and
the disease is conquered.
This was demonstrated in striking and
beneficent fashion during the war. Numbers
of cantonments, together with the neigh
boring country, were virtually freed from ma
laria, thanks to the Army health service and
civilian cooperation. This can be done by
any State, or community that takes the time
and pains.
the Atlanta semi-weekly journal, Atlanta, ga. Friday, roma, idiu
THE RISE OF CIDER—By Frederic J. Haskin
yy t ASIIINGTON, Sept. 28—The cider
y'V market is being bulled.
’ ’ A few years ago you could buy all
the cider you wanted for about live dollars a
barrel. Now you are lucky if you cau buy
a barrel of good cider for twenty dollars,
and in many sections you are lucky if you
can buy good cider at all.
This sudden increased demand for cider
may, or may not, be connected with the fact
that the senate has excluded non-intoxicat
ing cider and wine from the long list of bev
erages banned, and that the conference com
mittee on the prohibition measure shows a
tendency to concur in this leniency. Os
course, the conference committee may change
its mind, even before this is off the -press,
but if present indications hold good you may
make cider and own cider without breaking
the law.
It seems probable that cider may rise to
the dignity of a national beverage. Cider
has for many years been made in almost
every community in the United States. Most
Americans are acquainted with cider as a
soft or semi-soft drink which is both whole
some and good to the palate, and a few of
them are aware that cider which has attain
ed a mature age under favorable conditions
is not so soft. In fact the drinking of hard
cider is in some country communities a well
recognized and popular vice. But cidei is
wholesome, and it never develops a very
high percentage of alcohol. Furthermore,
the making of hard cider is a difficult art
which not many amateurs will master, it
not hardened in just exactly the right way,
the cider will turn into vinegar and align
itself with the white-ribboners by biting the
tongue of the would-be sinner. Most ot us
will probably never know cider except in its
strictly fresh and very mildly alcoholic con
dition, and few of us have enough room in
side to get drunk on a one or two per cent
beverage. It would seem, therefore, that if
there is any beverage in the world besides
spring water and milk with which an Amer
ican citizen can be trusted alone, cider s
that one. If there is a cup that cheers with
out inebriating, that can keep the joy„ o
conviviality alive in the world without scan
dalizing' the righteous, that cup may we
contain cider.
The new interest in cider has had the ti
fect of turning attention upon the few cider
mills and cider bars which are scattered
about the country. These establishments
have heretofore existed overshadowed by
their more powerful rivals. They are almost
sure, now, to increase in number and in im
-1 A typical cider mill is the establishment
of Mr T M. Whitney, on Pennsylvania
avenue, here in Washington. Mr. Whitney
has been making cider and cider vinegai,
and nothing else, at this same stand for
thirty-five years, and yet many Washington
ians have discovered the place but recently.
The back part of Mr. Whitney’s establish
ment is a factory where fifty barrels ot eider
per clay are turned out by steam
presses The front part is a bar of the old
fashioned kind, with a foot rest and a grate
ful fragrance. Nothing but cider passes over
this bar.
Mr. Whitney, a kindly old gentleman, is
what people describe as a character. He
knows cider from the tree to the stomach
in all its varieties and ages. On his country
place he raises apples so that he may experi
ment with different varieties in the making
of cider. He will tell you, for example,
about Hughes Virginia, crab apple, a little
known brand, which is the most wonderful
cider apple in the world. Cider, made P r °P"
erly from this little red apple with the black
spots, has a peculiarly delicate flavor and
has the further peculiarity that it will de
velop ten per cent of alcohol without a trace
of acid. Os course, it need not be developed
to that extent.
This crab apple cider also produces an ex
ceptionally fine “head,” as the farmers say
a content of carbon dioxide, which makes
it tickle the tongue just like soda water.
DIET AND TEETH
By H. Addington Bruce
BOOTH decay, it is now well known, is a
fertile cause of diseases affecting the
whole organism. Not nearly so well
known is the part played by faulty diet in
causing decay.
More and more are doctors and dentists
coming to the opinion that if the appalling
prevalence of dental trouble is to be appre
ciably lessened far greater attention will have
to be paid to questions of food than most peo
ple now pay.
For the tee<» not merely because
germs attack them and are allowed to gain
a foothold through failure to use a tooth
brush regularly. Another important factor is
low vitality in the teeth themselves. And the
kinds of food one eats have much to do with
determining the vitality of the teeth.
Particularly harmful, there can be no ques
tion, is the ever increasing tendency of both
children and adults to avoid rough, hard
foods —that is, foods which have to be well
chewed.
Experienced physicians insist, in fact, that
children should be trained from an early age
to eat hard, resistant, crusty foods every day.
Yet this advice is so little heeded that the
training is usually in the direction of acquir
ing a special fondness for soft, mushy foods
that need to be chewed scarcely at all.
There are even people who refuse crusted
rolls and aie at pains to leave untouched the
crust of their bread. Others make it a point
to “bolt” most of their food, with but the
slightest mastication.
Thus the teeth do not have a fair chance
to grow in strength as they would through
exercise. Thqy were meant to be used vigor
ously. Not being so used they take their re
venge, as it were, by becoming less and less
tit ever to be used.
Further, there is a growing belief among
authorities that the failure of many people to
eat a sufficiently mixed diet is itself a direct
cause of tooth decay.
When the diet is not varied, vitamines and
other important food elements may not be
present in adequate amount. Malnutrition,
perhaps a condition of mild scurvy, will then
result and must affect in some degree the
health of the teeth.
Only recently two English investigators,
Zilva and Wells, found that the teeth of peo
ple living on a scurvy-producing diet showed
a fibroid degeneration, which the investiga
tors called fibrosis.
Fresh fruits are especially anti-scorbutic.
The eating of fresh fruits freely is thus to be
recommended as of special value in main
taining the nutrition of the teeth.
Also fruits assist in preserving the teeth by
the cleansing action of their acids. These—
notably the acids of apples, oranges and
grapefruit—not only clean the teeth mechan
ically, but destroy the mucin plaques that
favor decay.
For this reason it is always better to eat
fruits at the end of a meal than at its begin
ning. And the habit of eating fruit between
meals is for the same reason to be commend
ed. not condemned.
But remember, too, the great importance
of eating hard foods as exercisers of the
teeth. It is all very well to eat fruits—also
green vegetables and milk, which are of spe
cial dietary value from the viewpoint of tooth
preservation—but hard foods must not be left
out.
Otherwise one need not be surprised if his
dentist is forever finding work to do, fto mat
ter how frequently one goes to him.
(Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers.)
i Mr. Whitney says that a good cider made
from these apples, and aged under the prop
er conditions, is the nearest thing in the
world to a ringer for champagne.
This interesting statement is corrobated
by Dr. Gore of the bureau of chemistry, who
j has experimented with this crab apple cider
in a scientific way, just as Mr. Whitney has
experimented with it in a professional way.
Mr. Whitney has a hundred trees bearing
this wonderful apple, but he keeps most of
the cider that he makes from them for his
own use and that of his family and intimate
friends.
The dealer and the scientist agree that
i the making of apple cider is an art, that
many good apples are ruined in the attempt
to make cider, and that the making of hard
cider in the home is not apt ever to become
a widely successful practice.
In the first place, the right varieties of ap
ples must be used. Summer apples are no
good. A fine winter apple is necessary, such
as the Ben Davis or the Winesap. Os course,
culls are used almost exclusively, but they
must be culls of the better sort. Many rot
ten or wormy apples will spoil the cider.
i In the second place, the pressing must
Ibe done in cold weather. In fact, cold is the
i secret of good cider. From the day it is
pressed out of the apples until it finds lodg
ment within the human system, cider must
never be warm. The layman generally asso
ciates warmth with fermentation, but cidei
will ferment at any temperature above freez
ing, and at any temperature above 45 de
! grees Fahrenheit, it Will turn to vinegar.
The juices must therefore be pressed out on
a cold day and must be put immediately in
a cold place. A cold cellar is good in winter
in cold climates. Otherwise it must be put
in an ice box or in some other form ot ai _i
ficial cold storage.
The cask is also important. A fifty-gal
ion whisky barrel is best. A wine barrel
with staves a couple of inches thick, that
will keep out air is also good. A vinegar
barrel must never be used, nor will a cheap
barrel with thin, porous sides serve the pur
pose. There must be a small opening at
the top of the barrel, covered with gauze
or screen, so that the surplus carbon dioxide
can escape, but the cask must be absolutely
air tight everywhere else.
If thus treated, the cider will develop in
four to six weeks a very slight percentage of
alcohol and a fine bead. As a soft drink it
will then be at its best, and very delicious.
After three or four months, it will probably
contain four or five per cent of alcohol, and
will still he a very acceptable drink. Ordi
nary cider will never develop more than five
per* cent of alcohol. You must get crab ap
ple cider if you aspire to make something
! stronger. .
|. At either of the stages mentioned, the
cider may be bottled, like wine, and so kept
i nan air-tight condition and in a cool place
for a long time
It is evident that the amateur does not
stand much chance of carrying out this pro
cess with real success. Generally, the best
he can do is to buy fresh cider from a farmer
and drink it before the acetic acid begins to
form Even if he has cold storage facilities,
most of the cider that he might buy from
farmers would not serve the purpose of
shortage because it would probably not have
been pressed under the right conditions or
kept under the right conditions until it
came into his hands.
If you wish to have good cider this winter,
your best plan would be to buy a barrel of
cider from some expert cider maker—not an
ordinary farmer. Be sure that the cider
was made in October or November, that it is
put up in a good whisky or wine barrel, and
that it has been kept in a cool cellar. Then
put it in your own cellar, if you are sure the
temperature there will stay below forty-five
degrees. If you are not sure of that, rent a
home for your little cider barrel in some local
cold storage plant. By Christmas you will
have something.
A PAGE IN THE DICTIONARY
By Dr, Fran.k Crane
What are you doing, Horatio?
Reading the dictionary.
Reading the dictionary? I didn’t know any
body ever read a dictionary. 1 supposed you
only went to it when you wanted to find out
the meaning or pronunciation of a ward.
Well, that’s one way to use it. But some
times 1 like just to read it. Do you know, it’s
a most surprising book. It’s as full of the
unexpected and the unknown as a dime novel.
There are words 1 never heard of.
Here’s a page, for instance, including from
aerobioscope to Aesculapian, in the Standard
dictionary. Now, first thing, what is an aero
bioscope? It is an apparatus for seeing how
many little living* things, microbes, etc., are in
a given volume of air. Did you ever hear of
one?
Never did.
Os course you didn’t, and you never heard
of an aerocyst nor an aeroductor either, did
you ?
Never did.
Well, the first is a little air-bladder that
keeps a seaweed afloat, and the other is an
instrument for conveying air to # an unborn child.
I’ll be switched!
Exactly. And do you know the difference
between an aerograph and an aerolite?
1 do not.
One of ’em is a message sent by wireless
and the other is a sort of meteor that falls
to earth.
You don’t say!
Yep. And here’s aeronef, a word meaning
any kind of an aircraft except a balloon; it
was used by Jules Verne. And here's aero
pleustic, meaning “pertaining to aerial naviga
tion;” and aeroporotomy, a surgical operation
for letting air artificially into the air passages,
and aeroscepsy, of the perception of atmos
pheric changes by certain insects.
Never heard tell of any of ’em.
Neither did I, nor of an aerosderite, “a
meteorite containing iron;” nor an aerosite
(meaning the same as pyrargyrite, whatever
that may be); nor of aerotropism, “the turning
of roots from the direction of their natural
growth by means of gases.”
1 should say not!
And did. you know that the science of bal
looning (of craft lighter than air) is called
aerostation, as distinguished from aviation,
which is the science of flying with machines
heavier than air?
Nay, nay. Horatius.
1 reckon not. Outside of friend dictionary
where will you find such succulent bits of in
formation? Where, for instance, will you see
the word aerugo, meaning copper rust; or
aesion, a “kind of hawk;’ or aeschrolalia,
meaning obscene speech; or aescigenin, a chem
ical compound derived from horse-chestnut
seeds; or aeschynomene, or sensitive plants?
i must say, as one would observe in the
colored language, that “them is awful knowl
edgeable words.” t
Rath-er! I love to ramble from page to
page in the dictionary, for to see and to be
hold how many words there are in the Eng
lish language that 1 never dreamed of in my
wildest nightmare.
Perhaps you're right. The dictionary is
mighty fine reading, of course, only, as the
teller says, it changes the subjec. too often.
(Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
♦_!
Strolling along New York's river front an
lishman came across the wooden barracks
which is placed ar iuifd the enclosure wnere
immigrants suspected of suffering from con
. agi(”-s disease are isolated.
“Vv hat's this boarding for?” he inquired
cif a bystander.
“Ch, ” was the reply, “that’s to keep out
fever and things like that, you know.”
“Indeed,” said Fit. “I’ve often heard ol
the board of health, but it's the first time j
v e seen it. .
CURRENT EVENTS OF IN IERES I
Mount Yauna Loa, on Hilo island, burst
into new eruption late Tuesday night, and
a wide stream of lava began pouring down
the Kona side, destroying many homes. The
residents of the Kona are rreported flee
ing to the sea, which is thirty miles distant.
The mountain, which is 13,000 feet high,
first became active on Saturday, when
smoke and gases came from the crater It then
subsided until late Tuesday night, whe nthe
lava began pouring down the Kona side.
During an eruption in May, 1916, a cloud of
steam and smoke was sent 20.000 feet into
the air when the peak burst into eruption.
Notwithstanding the strike the British
government intends to keep the Irish ques
tion to the fore, and it is expected the cabinet
will again discuss a settlement of the Irish
problem during the present week, according
to the Mail. Sir Edward Carson, who was
prevented by the strike from attending the
Ulster ay demonstration at Belfast, sent the
following telegram to his supporters:
“The conspiracy against our civil and re
ligious liberties backed- by cruel assassina
tions in Ireland and lies and misrepresenta
tion in America tQ separate us from the
British empire, must be countered by the
organization of all our forces. We stand by
our covenant in the letter and spirit and
With Goa’s help we will defeat our enemies
as we aid before.”
Henry L. DeGive, Belgian consul in At
lanta, will go to Washington to attend the
reception that will be tendered the king and
queen of the Belgians, and will second the
invitation extended the royal pair by the At
lanta chamber of commerce to stop at At
lanta on their tour of the United States.
Charles M. Schwab, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice,
former British ambassador to the United
States; Lord Fisher, of the British admiralty;
the late Lord Kitchener and the British vice
consul at Ensenada, Mexico, were marked
for assassination by agents of the German
government, according to sworn testimony
giyen by former Lieutenant Wilhelm von
Brincken, formerly attache of the German
consulate in San Francisco, to Commissioner
'f Immigration Henry M. White, of Seattle,
Wash. A transcript of the statement has
been received in San Francisco by Attorney
Henry M. Owens,. Von Briijcken’s legal ad
viser in San Francisco. Von Brincken is
serving a two-year sentence in the federal
penitentiary at McNeill’s island -for the part
he played in the so-called Hindu conspiracy
cases.
The state department at Washington has
been asked by the shipping board to take
up with the American peace commission at
Paris the question of the possession of the
Imperator, Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, Kaiserin
Auguste. Victoria Cap Flnisterre, Mobile
Praetoria, Patriacia and Zeppelin. These
are the eight German ships taken from Ger
man harbors and allocated by the Interal
lied Maritime Conference to the United
States government. It is learned that in
the meantime the war department will con
tine to turn German ship over to the ship
ping board as fas as they are released from
transport service. The Imperator has already
been turned back to the board and was not
handed to the Cunard line as that com
pany had expected. Until the diplomatic as
pect of the situation is settled and the entire
disposition of the ships as laid out by the.
peace council is thoroughly understood in
this country, the eight German weasels will
be retained by the shipping board.
Germany will soon be bettered by the ad
vent of 40,000 of her citizens, well clothed,
well fed and in the best of health, but with
a wholesome respect for the allies anti par
ticularly ifor the American army. The 40,000
are prisoners held by the Americans in
France. Plans are now being made for their
repatriation, a task in which the Y. M. C. A.,
at the request of the army, will assist, in so
far as the army wishes. According to an
nouncement of the plans far repatriation, the
German prisoners to be released by the Amer
icans are less Teutonic and less Bolshevistic
in their thoughts and bearing than any set
of Germans in all Europe.
Announcement by Director General John
Barrett, of the Pan-American union, that he
would tender his resignation at the November
meeting of the union’s governing board, al
ready has aroused considerable speculation
among Latin-American diplomats here as to
his sccessor. The diplomatic representatives
of the Latin-American contries together with
the secretary of state constitute the govern
ing board which will select the new director
general.
Informal discussion of Mr. Barrett’s sue-
CALLING A MAN BY. HIS NAME
BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE
t “What is man that thou are midiful of
i him?” “He calleth hfs own by name.”
Just one man.
As though there weren’t another man in
' the whole wide world.
God wanted him to stand up and be count
; ed—as one.
> Not in droves —like cattle.
Not in battalions —nor armies—to be
hurled against the mouth of cannon.
; Not in masses, or mobs, or-multitudes- —
L Just one man—alone.
And the world is coming to learn its lesson
■ —the value of one soul.
) Have you noticed at the big hotels how
, they are displaying the name of the man on
■ duty at the desk?
He’s no longer just clerk —you greet him
as “Mr. Finn,” or “Mr. Sullivan.” It makes
1 the contact more human.
: Even the elevator man is individualized —
his name is displayed so that you needn’t call
> him "George” or “Charlie” or “Cap”
1 “Boy”—because that isn’t his name and he
resents it.
Immediately he’s degnified and he gives
’ better service.
He’s a man—come to his own.
’ The trouble in most factories is that the
boss doesn’t know his men.
They are looked upon as so much •muip
ment.
And the boss wonders why he can’t run his
' GEORGIA’S TOBACCO CROP
, (The Tifton Gazette.)
Farmers in the section around Richland are
said to be disgusted with tobacco as a crop and
will not plant the leaf again. There are 'no
; doubt other farmers throughout the section
where tobacco was planted this year that feel
the same way.
These experiences, however, do not prove
that tobacco is not a good crop for this sec
tion. The experiences of men who know how
to grow tobacco and who went at it in a
business-like manner, proves that tobacco is a
good crop for this section.
Many farmers who went in too heavily, or
who attempted to raise the crop without the
assistance of a man of practical experience in
tobacco growing, of course, failed. They would
have failed with any other new crop, if they
went about it in the same way.
It takes a man who knows his to
grow tobacco. There are so many different
things to be done, and they must be done at
just exactly the right time. The growing is by
no means all, either. There is just as much
in curing the leaf as is in growing it.
An inexperienced man may grow a fine crop
| and then ruin it all by improper curing.
i It was the inexperienced man who tried to
i bacco on too large a scale, who made a failure.
■
cessor by the representatives of South and
Central American countries has centered
about suggestions that either Francisco J.
Y'anez, now assistant director general, or Dr. 1
L. S. Rowe, who recently resigned as secre
ta y of the treasury to become head of the
state department’s Latin-American affairs
division be named. Assistant Director General
j is a venezulan, is said by his
friends, however, to prefer his present office,
inasmuch as it, carrier with i* K-e twrevtui-*
ship of the union’s educational division.
A vote of confidence in Premier Nitti was
given by the Italian chamber of deputies, in
session at Rome. The government received ,
208 votes to 140. The assembly was ex
tremely tumultuous. There were personal
encounters between several of the deputies.. 4
Dispatchs from tne Spanish high commis
sion in Morocco say that Spanish troops from
Tetuan, acting against the bandit Raisuli,
have occupied the positions of Conice and
Harcha, while detachments froin El Arish
and Ceuta are still fighting.
Raisuli is said to be endeavoring to provoke
uprisings among the Douars, who had given
their submission to Spain, his object ap
parently being to prevent the concentration
of Spanish troops.
The high commissioner reports defections
among the new recruits of the Spanish forces
in the operations against'Raisuli. A detach->
ment of police trying to join a column oper- '
ating against the Warns fell into ambush
and part of the detachment went over to
the enemy.
The plebescite held in Luxembourg re- .
suited in a majority in favor of the retention
of Grand Duchess Charlotte as ruler and for
a customs union with France.
Miss Helen Taft, acting president of Bryn
Mawr college, declared in an address be
fore the alumni conference in the Bryn Mawr
campaign for $1,000,000 to increase faculty
remuneration that she wished the professors
of the country would organize a union and
strike for higher salaries.
She said they had a better case than
the ministers. Miss Taft holds that the
faculty of Bryn Mawr and other colleges are
taking the most reasonable way possible to
press their claims. She said they are justi
fied in refusing to serve the country. Miss
Taft pointed out that she would not object
to a strike as a college executive because she
believed it would not be a strike against the
college executives, the college directors or
trustees, but against the public;, which ought
to be made to pay for its education.
Despite the opposition of the Hylan admin
istration in New York City, plans for the
unionization of the police force and the af
filiation of the body w'th the Aiw«rican Fed
eration of Labor are going forward rapidly,
says Ernest Bohm, corresponding secretary of
the Central Federated Union. Mr. Bohm sa d
that as soon as the plans had been completed
the secret organization of the force would
begin. It was admitted by other labor lead
ers that a police strike was not beyond the,
bonds xis possibility. Mr. Bohm, however, re
fused to discuss this phase of the subject.
He did say, however, that the result of the
Boston strike would not act as a deterrent
in New York.
The famous Skoda arms and ammunition
works, near Pilsen, have been nationalized, ac
cording to messages reaching Vienna. A new
council has been named to conduct the works,
comprised of six Czechs and three Frenchmen.
The latest previous advices regarding the
Skoda works were that their purchase was be
ing negotiated fdr' by an American syndicate
A Geneva dispatch, however, said there was a
hitch in ihe negotiations due to a difference
on the question of the price to be paid. 4
The Skoda works produced the famous Aus
trian howitzers, one of the most effective heavy
artillery weapons used by the Central Powers
in the war.
“Where are you going to live when you are
married, Lily?” a lady said to her servaut,
who had just shyly given a week’s notice.
“In California, ma’am,” said Lily.
“In California! Isn’t that rather risky?
They have so many earthquakes and violer.c.
disturbances there, you know.”
“The more the mertier, ma’am,” was the
cheerful answer.
“Lily, you surprise me! What a shocking
sentiment!”
“It ain’t sentiment, ma’am, but hard fact.
My young man’s the village reporter and he
says that describin’ parish meetings and such
like musty things gives, him the miserables.
So he’s goin’ to a place where there’s more
chance of an eruption or a big explosion to
give him a rise in the world!”
shop as he runs his home—so far as his
“help” is concerned.
He’ll tell you proudly that he never has
any trouble with his gardener or his butler —
of course not, he calls them by name, and he
knows them, and they know him..
Whereas in the shop his men are known
by numbers, and each man is furnished with
a little brass check—for purposes of identifi
cation.
Nothing mysterious about it.
It s peiifectly natural that he should find
a difference between his home help and his
i shop help.
A name spells personality.
It’s a sign of friendship.
“He calleth his own by name.”
And if God isn’t too big or too busy to
call us by name, there isn’t much excuse (for
the rest of us to learn each other’s names.
It’s some trouble, and if there’s a lack of
sincerity it’s next to impossible, but a gen
uine interest in others will help tremendous
ly.
All kinds of panaceas have been offered to
the labor question, so there’s no harm in
presenting another:
“He calleth his own by name.”
For, you may be sure, a man’s name car
ries with it a far-reaching influence.
Humanity, personality, friendship, these
three, but more than these, the recognition oif
the value that God places upon a man—just
one man.
Many farmers who knew how to grow and cure
tobacco, or who employed a man who did know ■
how, made money with tobacco the past season,
although it was a very unfavorable one.
One visit to a tobacco warehouse in this
section the past season was enough to convince
anyone, whether he knew anything about to
bacco or not, that someone was going to lose
money on the crop. The enormous quantity of
very poor tobacco offered on the market ?’*•?*•
that somebody was going to lose. There was ,
much tobacco offered for in Tifton that was
worth more to the farmer as bedding for •his
stables than it was on ' market.
. Notwithstanding the large quantity of poor
grade tobacco offe.ed for sale here, the more
than a half million pounds sold at Tifton brought
an average of 20.7 cen.s a pound.
They had been discussing art, and the
young man was getting slightly tired of the
subject.
“I remember one picture that brought tears
to my eyes, however,” he continued.
“Ah, it was some pathetic subject,” mur
mured the damsel, who took herself seriously.
“As a matter of fact I don’t know what the ,
subject was, but I happened to be sitting tin- ’
der a pretty heavy picture when the cord
broke, and it came down on my head.”