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OCTOBER 28, 1920. GREAT MORAL FORGES STIRRED, TURN 10 Church and Mission Workers tive For League—Peace and Progress Will Win. The accretions to the ranks are fighting for Democratic in November are becoming every day. As the issue becomes clearly defined, as the Covenant the League is itself seen and and opinions are formed from document itself and not from sertions of “bitter-enders" and tisan interpreters of, the of the Nation seems to be aroused. Not less striking than the who have come over to support is the character, and the affiliations of these and their announced reasons their support of Cox. The Des Moines speech of Harding, which was a complete render to Borah, Johnson and other “bitter-enders,” has the situation in the minds of of Americans. No longer, it can their old associations blind to the fact that the League of tions is a great moral issue to be cided by the American and that by supporting Harding the hope of his finally favoring League is paltering with the and breaking faith with our who fought and died in France. Expressive of the almost sentiment among foreign aries and mission boards, W. Pinson, General Secretary of Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church, South, writes der date of August 20: “I have just returned from a to Belgium, Poland and vakia. Many times I was compelled bow in shame in the midst of trials through which those republics are passmg. cause of the absence of my country from the counsels and fluences working to shape or the national life of these people. returned with the determination do whatever might be possible to our flag and our name back in place of honor that it occupied only resigned a few months Frankly I do not believe the States ever faced a greater peril she is facing at this moment. The sue so far from being a partisan is fundamental. It is nothing than the choice between reaction and progress, isolation of the past international fellowship of the fu¬ ture. You may, therefore, command me and such channels as Influence in this matter. * • Along the same line is the state¬ ment of Rev. A. W. Smith, Executive Secretary of the Executive Commit¬ tee of Foreign Missions of the Pres¬ byterian Church, who says: “I have read the platforms of the two great parties and the acceptance speeches of the two nominees for the presidency. I am also familiar, in view of my position as Executive Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, with the interna¬ tional situation. I am satisfied that our country should enter the League of Nation; as advocated by Governor Cox and the Democratic platform, and that only in this way can our people rise to their full stature as a Christian nation. it At the Universalist State Conven¬ tion of Indiana, Rev. John Clifford, President of the Convention, said that the League o# Nations is a great moral issue worthy of the support of the American Nation, and that the whole system of religion is based on the principles it embodies—namely, the brotherhood of man and the fa¬ therhood of God. Other minister^ on the program supported the world-union idea, and a missionary asserted that there is general recognition of the fact that there must be universal co-operation and if the people of the United States fail to do their part the nation is disgraced. Herbert Parsons, of New York, long a power in the Republican party and representative of the very best element of that party, has resigned his office in the Republican organi¬ zation and announced his support of Governor Cox. In his letter or resig¬ nation he says: .» It is my intention to vote for Cox. I am for the League of Nations. Cox is for ‘going in’; Harding is for ‘not going in’, thought in the Senate he voted for going in. “The League of Nations offers the one practical opportunity for this generation to unite the nations in an effort to prevent war and effect dis¬ armament. To me it is monstrously immoral not to go into the League at all and let slip this one opportunity to join in a great effort to prevent ' ’ future wars. Hamilton Holt, editor of The In dependent, long one of the national leaders of the Progressives, ced his support of Governor Cox says, “The League of Nations is greatest moral issue since slavery. »» Another and perhaps the most suasive force in the nation that aiding the Democratic candidate the mothers of the land, especially those whose sons now sleep in soil. Their support of Governor is inspired by the holiest feeling w'hieh partisanship or have no part. They are for the gue of Nations because they that the League will prevent wars and that they and other will never again have to suffer and make the sacrifices they have made. And being for the League of they do no palter with the situation; they do not propose to vote for a candidate who palters with it. They are supporting Cox for the sake of their sons; for the sake of our heroic head in France. No Separate Peace! The mines of Peru contain vast re¬ sources of nearly all known minerals, and the stores of copper, silver, gold, vanadium, coal, and tungsten have been especially developed. Ex. ■O' A MOTHER S PRAYER. Accompanying a check for the Democratic Campaign fund was this letter: “Elizabeth, New Jersey. “George White, Esq., “Chairman Democratic Nat. Com. “Care of New York Times, 'New York City, N. Y. “Dear Sir: “Please accept the enclosed small contribution to the fund for dissem¬ ination of truth about the League of Nations. It is literally a “widow’s mite,” but it comes from a mother who sent four greatly needed sons to the World War. Two of those sons, with almost unlimited possibilities for future usefulness, were killed; a third was ill in hospitals in France for five months, due to gassing in action, and is still classified as “un¬ fit,” and a fourth risked his precious young life in the air. When an honest and concerted effort is being made by the nations of the earth to save, if possible, future mothers and sons from these sacrifices, it is hard to realize there are those who oppose an effort. I feel sure that among those who paid for the war there can be but one opinion, and that is to try the League of Nations, even if it is not perfect. It is the best that has been proposed, and, all objections being weighed, is manifestly the most feasible. Please God it will not fail. “Very truly yours, “MARIE A. DAVIDSON, (Mrs. Edward Crawford Davidson)’ “October 6, 1920.” o THOSE WE LOVE THE BEST They say the world is round, and yet I often think it square, So many little hurts we get From corners here and there. But one sad truth in life I’ve found While journeying to the West: The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. The choicest garb and sweetest grace Are oft to strangers shown; The careless mien, the frowning face Are given to our own. We flatter those we scarcely know; We please the fleeting guest; And deal many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. Love does not grow on every tree, Nor true hearts yearly bloom; Alas! for those who only see This truth across the tomb. But soon or late the fact grows plain To all through sorrow’s test: The only ones who gives us pain Are those we love the best. -—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. o AREAS BELOW SEA LEVEL. All the continents possibly, except South America, include areas of dry land that lie below sea level. Accord mg to the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, the lowest point in North America is one in Death Valley, Calif., that lies 276 feet below sea level, but this de pression is slight compared to the basin of the Dead Sea, in Palestine, Asia, where the lowest point on dry land is 1,200 feet below sea level. The lowest point in Africa is one in the Desert of Sahara that lies about 150 feet below sea level. The Sahara as a whole stands above sea level, although until recently the greater part of it was supposed to lie below sea level. The lowest point in Europe at present known is one on the shores of the Caspian Sea that lies 86 feet below sea level. The lowest point in Australia is one at Lake T , Torrens _ that .* lies about 25 feet below sea level. •o Members of Amundsen’s arctic ex ploration party, returning to Den mark, reported they found the Amer ican flag planted by Rear Admiral Peary 400 miles from the North Pole still flying and in good condi tion.—Ex. ' THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA THE GROWLING FISH A fish that growls and meows a cat is found in certain parts South America, Africa and and this is considered by to be in many respects the fnost derful fish in the world. It much more like a snake than a It has lungs and is obliged to put head out of water frequently breathe. Lung fish, as these are called, are a link between and fishes—the nearest kin to original stock from which snakes fishes both sprang and in the period these ancestors of theirs scattered over the entire world. reason these strange fish have preserved thousands and of year after their pre-historic tors were extinct is because they live easily through long droughts. ligators and their African the crocodiles, are almost the enemies they have to fear man. Their rich salmon flesh is prized by the Indians who go them with spears. In a natural state, the African lung fish is about eighteen long, but when kept in and fed the year round, instead lying dormant for lack of water, thtjy grew to be two feet and a half and weigh six pounds or more. It is a fact that there are fish which cannot swim. A Brazilian fish, called the maltha, can only crawl, walk or hop. It has long, upturned snout, and resembles to some extent a toad. The anterior fins of the mal¬ tha are quite small and are not :o get on the water. They are in ity thin paws which are of no for swimming.—The Dearborn In¬ dependent. o Unusually heavy rains in Southern California have changed the appear¬ ance of the Chocolate Mountains, so called because of their color, from brown to green.—Ex. WHERE CANDLES ARE USED A minute news item to the effect that a firm of soap manufacturers had purchased more than 100 acres of land in the southwest of England for the establishment of a candle factory to employ about 5,000 hands, suggested a forgotten and little known industry. It appeared, on further investiga¬ tion, that the British candle suprem¬ acy was being endangered by Conti¬ nental competition, and the new move is an effort to insist that Britain rule the wicks. Not having used a candle for so long that one doesn’t remember what it looks like, it comes, therefore, with profound astonishment to learn that Britain, in 1919, exported no less than 26,400,000 pounds of candles, of a total value of $6,000,(500 or about 25 cents a pound. Where, you ask, is there any use for 26,400,000 pounds of candles? Well, France took great quantities, in fact France took British candles except when Belgium or Holland slip¬ ped in and grabbed an order away from the British soap people. Great cargoes came across the water to North America, and over other seas to Africa. The candle business is quite a thing. What impresses the authorities most is that during November and December of last year the monthly exports were 5,000,000 or at the rate of 60,000,000 pounds a year, a monthly value of more than $1,000 000. Now the candlemakers have visions of a 1920 production of 240, 000,000 pounds. No home, say the candle manufacturers, shall be with¬ out a candle. Britain has held this industry for a half century. In 1905 her export was 40,000,000 pounds, a total never since reached, although, as stated, it is expected to surpass it five or six times this year. But in those days candles only brought 8 cents a pound, and the total value of the exports was only $3,000,000. Even the candle has gone up.—The Dearborn Independent. 0 Census reports show that Hawaii already is Japanized as to population with 110,000 Japanese out of a total population of 256,000.—Ex. GET THAT WOLF-TERSE ORDER AGAINST $25,000 MARAUDER << Get that wolf,” is the sole order under which H. P. Williams, of Cus¬ ter, one of the most experienced hunters in South Dakota, is working for the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agri¬ culture. u That wolf” is a-wicked veteran with the cunning of a criminal human and with an account of $25,000 charged against him for cattle and sheep destroyed in six or seven years of his depredations. This big cattle thief has defied all efforts of the local hunters. One of the tactics credited to him is that after making a kill of a fat calf or steer and eating his fill he makes a long trail from his kill and back tracks i on a parallel line a few rods | away. He then lies in wait at a point convenient to the sheltering timber, When the hunters trail him with dogs he watches them from his .cover safely to leeward to avoid his scent i being carried. As the pack passes on the scent he quietly slips into the woodland and makes his getaway. Stock raisers had about decided that it would be necessary to board the old “varmint” for the rest of his natural life, or until he died from overeating; but the Biological Sur vey is determined not lo be defeated by a wolf, and Williams promises to bring in the marauder before another season is ended, -o j Corn is never stationary in quality, It either improves or retrogrades, says a United Staes Department of Agriculture specialist. There is no more excuse for farmers raising scrub corn than scrub cattle, FIGHTING THE BOLL WEEVIL SHOWN BY MOTION PICTURES Help for southern cotton growers in the fight against the boll weevil is being prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture in the form of a motion picture, showing the methods used in controlling the weevil by means of calcium arsenate poisons applied by dusting machines. The views, which will not be avail¬ able for use utnil the first part of January, will show the apparatus used, which covers a large area in a day, and the detailed parts and methods of operation, together with fields of cotton and individual cotton plants, bolls, and ginned cotton where the poison has been applied and where it has not. By the persis¬ tent and intelligent use of this in¬ secticide department specialists hope to keep the loss by boll weevils down to 10 per cent. Unchecked, it has run as high as 50 per cent in some fields. O In eradicating the cocklebur, re¬ member that it carries a double-bar¬ reled gun. Every bur carries two seeds, only one of which sprouts the first year. Even when the product of that seed has been killed the other i trouble the will be in shape to make next season, l'he United btates De¬ partment of Agriculture has a circu¬ lar on the cocklebur—how to get rid of it. Scrap iron wanted Lubetkin Junk Co. i) <§> <§) (§) GEORGIA (§) (§) (D State Fair % (©) Under Auspices Georgia State Agricultural Society. 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