Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

4 i-WEEKLY JOURNAL Sr ga., 5 north foksyth st. c.cd r.t the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Mutter of the Second Class. Drily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly P. < Rii-TION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY .’•wulvo months $1.50 Si?; months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Oaily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Oiiily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sun lay 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published ■on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. ’Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, W. H. Reinhardt, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time yvitr subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRIWEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. IP hat They Think of Hoover as A Democratic Opportunity. THE foregone conclusion that the Repub- licans will not nominate Herbert \ Hoover and the probability that they will lose in consequence many millions of votes which a candidate who appeals to the country’s independent thought can win, are matters which every friend of the Democratic party should take to mind and to heart. There are discerning Republicans here and there, it is true, who see what an asset Hoover would be to their organization, beggared as it is of a statesmanly record and constructive principles. Tile Lincoln State? Journal thus points out that “the powerful influence behind the Hoover movement is the powerful, ever increasing non-partisan spirit in America;” the Los Angeles Express ardently declares that “he should receive every electoral vote in every State;” and that most genial oracle of Republicanism, former President Taft, has let fall more than one significant remark touching the Great Administrator’s favor with the American rank and file. But these are exceptional voices in the party of Lodge and Penrose. Typical opinion in that quar ter is expressed by Boss Penrose himself when he reminds his brethren that “in the last Congressional election Mr. Hoover issued a . . . statement insulting the Republican party by urging the return of a Democratic Congress;” and the Pennsylvania politician added, with the manifest approval of his G. O. P. peers, “Mr. Hoover is neither a good nor a bad Republican—he is no Republican at all.” This is undeniable. On every im portant issue of the day Mr. Hoover’s ut terances clash with Republican creed and practice; so that not unless that party re pudiated its present spokesmen and their poli cies. not indeed unless it converted itself into a veritably Democratic institution, could it conceivably accept Hoover principles—as it would have to do to procure Hoover leader- i 3?Now the interesting question for Demo cratic strategy is this: what will become of the millions of votes that turn upon issues and candidates rather than upon traditional party allegiance, the votes that always tell potently, and that in the next election are likely to be all decisive? It is hardly think able that they will go Republican with no higher inducement in that direction than a conventional politician on a conventional plat form. But is it any more probable that they will go Democratic if the Democratic clan has nothing better to offer? We of Geor gia and the South, of course, -will stand stoutly by tjie party of our affections, come £ut or long-tail. But we alone, it must be reluctantly acknowledged, cannot elec.t ai President. We need the help of a few mil lion votes in the North and East, a few mil lion in the Middle West, and all that we can muster beyond the Rockies. Especially do we need, in this year of years, that deter mining power of the political balance—the independent vote. Let us not deceive our selves with a hope that we shall be certain to gain that element merely because the Re publicans are likely to lose it. The truly independent voter (and rare though he is in our quarter, his name-elsewhere. is legion) is not given to embracing the frying pan sim ply because he does not care to leap into the fire. He has been known to refrain from balloting at all, in which connection we shall do well to remember that there are consid erably more voters in the strongholds of Re publicanism than there are in the strongholds of Democracy. Strip us of our Independent adjunct, and we are an outnumbered, howso ever valiant, host. The land lying thus, it is not to be won dered that so many practical-minded Demo crats the nation over are counseling the nomi nation of Herbert Hoover as their party’s wisest choice at this momentous juncture They are not unmindful that Mr. Hoover has refused to tie himself to “undefined partisan ship.” They are well aware that he has made no boast of his magnificent work under a Democratic Administration, preferring to let it go as simple service to the country rather than as anything meriting political reward. They realize, too, that he has incurred the antipathy of a large number of the party’s wire-pullers, whose first thought, genial gen tlemen though they are, runs naturally to self elevation. But these circumstances, instead of lessening Mr. Hoover’s availability, make his nomination all the more advisable, in the judgment of Democrats far and wide who are pondering how their party best can win and best deserve to win. A glance at the lead ing article in the latest number of that great and impartial mirror of current thought, the Literary Digest, will show that Hoover looms foremost in Democratic discussion North, South. East and West, and that he also is the pronounced preference of the independent press. “His attitude toward the great issues’ of the day,” the Brooklyn Citizen (Dem.) is quoted, “will find favor in both parties with those who are progressive without being rad ical and with those who are conservative without being reactionary.” Says the St. Louis Star (Ind.), “Herbert Hoover has ac complished what no avowed candidate for the Presidency has accomplished—he has made his position and his convictions on some of the leading questions of the day clear enough for the public to know where he stands; there is no grab-bag uncertainty about Mr. Hoover, at any rate.” Says Governor Bickett, of North Carolina, “Mr. Hoover makes a more power ful appeal to the sanity and to the imagina tion of the people than any other man; in THE ATLANTA TIU WEKMA’ JOURNAL. its finest sense, Hoover is essentially a Demo crat.” So the comment runs, from New York to California and back to Georgia, where the press of the State is demanding well-nigh unanimously that Hoover’s name be allowed on the Democratic ballot in the coming Presi dential primary. If the Democrats cannot hold their lines with a candidate like this, they cannot hold them at all. If they cannot attract the in dependent voters with a candidate like this, they cannot attract them at all. If they can not win with a candidate like this, how can they expect to win at all? One can easily see why Old Guard Republicans should de cry Herbert Hoover; they know that he will never march with their colors. But why should any Democrat feel otherwise than friendly toward this most typical American of his time, whose works as well as words prove how vital is his democracy, and whose leadership may be the party’s one cue to suc cess? Whatever the developments between now and the San Francisco convention, there can be no doubt that a host of Georgia Demo crats. sharing the thought of thousands the country over, are now heartily for Hoover. But whether for him or for another or as yet undecided, the Democratic ranks in this State are virtually a unit in demanding that Hoover’s name go on the April primary bal lot. This, they rightly urge, is the least the State Executive Committee can do in justice to the party’s interests and the peo ple’s rights. The Committee cannot ignore those rights without injuring those interests. It cannot clamp its autocratic veto on the most liberal and farsighted movement in Democratic lines, without doing the party an irreparable wrong. Georgia Democrats, like those of the nation at large, are eminently capable of choosing for themselves. Let the State Executive Committee acknowledge and vouchsafe this right without further parley or further politics. Pork Dersus Humanity, IT was at a recent hearing in New Jer sey, on a bill providing a minimum salary of a thousand dollars a year for public school teachers in that State, that a farmer-member of one of the county education boards stoutly objected to what he considered the giddy extravagance of the proposal. Thereupon the author of the bill asked: “How much is your district’s annual ap propriation for schools?” “It is thirty thousand dollars,” the board member replied with an impressive shake of his beard. “How many children has your district?” “Six hundred.” “Well, that’s only fifty dollars a year for each child. You spend that much on a good hog, don’t you?” “Yes,” answered the objector, “but I can sell the hog.” When enough Americans duly realize that there are goods more precious than those which can be bought' and sold, and values higher than those reckoned in dollars and cents, then will the problem of school funds be blithely solved and the children of men be given as fair, an accounting as tlfe progeny of prize-winning swine. The New Jersey brother was uncommonly frank, and perhaps uncommonly cynical. But do not his views, after all, dominate in our actual treatment of education and kindred causes as compared with economic interests? If our hearts be really where our treasure is, must we not confess to being a great deal more concerned about things than about people and the vast issues which human lives embody? Deplorable as it- is that so many teachers are underpaid and so many children under schooled. it is still more deplorable that so many citizens are underestimating these needs and neglects. Happily there are signs of an awakening. As in New Jersey, so in many another State more liberality is being shown educational interests all the way from the kindergarten to the university. In Georgia we take heart from the number of counties that have adopted a local school tax in recent years, that being the one feasible and equitable plan of increasing the common school fund; and also from the fact that a Constitutional amendment mak ing this plan Statewide and obligatory has been proposed by the Legislature and is practically certain to be approved at the polls. We are encouraged, moreover, by the deepening interest in higher institutions of learning. Men and women of means are coming to give more and more generously to colleges and universities, both by present donations and by bequests. Let us not lose sight of these happy omens, nor forget that our school facilities, taken by and large, are much better than they were a generation ago. But at the same time let us frankly face the immense needs which lie neglected and the crowding opportunities which go un taken. A\ e have merely broken ground in our duty to education. The great sowing and cultivating are yet to be done, and the goodliest harvests yet to be reaped More schools, more teachers, endowments larger y many millions, and heartier relationships between the life of the school and the life of the people—these are the vital wants of the South and of all America. Moreover when these wants are duly supplied, we shall have prosperity beside which the rich est years of the past will seem absurdly p? r , tJ l e source of Prosperity is not in the fat of hogs, as our New Jersey friend imagined, but in skillful hands and fertile minds and understanding hearts. Beat the If 7 eevil to It. NORTH Georgia is facing invasion this year by the boll weevil. How the farm- , can P re J? are against the onset is o X Hastin & s - president art p I! a Chamber of Commerce, in an article of the magazine section in today’s North’GeoX' 6 '’ “ A S2s '° ,0 ’ 00 » to • •^■ astin SS says that the weevil has been in this region of the state for the last four or five years, but that conditions have been unfavorable to its propagation, with the re sult that the damage done has been slight. Last fall, however, the northern counties be came well infested, no extreme cold occurred during the winter to kill the weevil, and in consequence North Georgia this year will feel the full effects of the weevil menace. But, Mr. Hastings adds, “this is no time to be frightened or pessimistic. Cotton can be and is being grown under weevil conditions. The difference is one of cultivation, fertiliz ing, and the use of some early variety.”' He then outlines means by which the farm ers in North Georgia can prepare against the coming of the weevil. He says that reports by state experts show that approximately $25,- 000,000 worth of cotton will be destroyed in North Georgia this year by the boll weevil if the old methods of cultivation are con tinued. “A $25,000,000 stake is to be played for,” he continues. “On one side of the table sits the cotton growing farmer and on the other side, Mr. 801 l Weevil.” First of all, Mr. Hastings urges North Geor gia farmers to write to the State College of Agriculture, in Athens, for its bulletin on cotton growing under weevil conditions. Next, he urges that a early maturing va riety of cotton be planted. He himself plant ed both early and medium maturing varieties last year in Troup county. “Our loss of crop in the medium or later maturing variety,” he says, “was from 25 to 33 per cent. In the early variete the effect of the weevil was hardly noticeable.” The cotton should be planted as early as CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST Much indignation has been felt in Bermuda at the report which has reached the islands to the effect that persons desirous of visiting the colony were being informed by some American tourist agencies that the hotels were full. Such a statement, if made to any pros pective traveler, has been incorrect. There is ample accommodation in the Bermuda is lands for many more visitors, and the Fur ness-Bermuda Line is to operate another steam ship, the Fort Victoria, on the route in ad dition to the Fort Hamilton, at present main taining the service. The additional steamship will provide weekly round trips. News from Washngton states that production of potash in Germany in January reached the record total of 50,00 Otons. The greatly increased output was ascribed largely to im proved industrial conditions and to the fact that a large number of returning prisoners of war have gone to work in this industry. A project is under way, the dispatch said, to import anthracite coal from the United States, as this fuel is urgently needed in the potash industry. Charges of immorality and lax discipline among inmates of the Portsmouth, N. H., naval prison were held to be without founda tion in the report of the special board of in vestigation, made public in Washington by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, a member of the board. The first dirigible airship built for passen ger service in this country was sold recently to a Kansas syndicate, acording to the Manu facturers’ Aircraft Association. The dirigible is ninety-five feet long, has a gas capacity of 30,500 feet, a cruising radius of 400 miles at forty miles an hour and can carry two passengers besides the pilot. The machine will be used between Kansas City and St. Louis and other Middle Western points. It will be flown to Kansas City for delivery to its new owners. It is understood the senate passed and sent to the house the Underwood joint resolution creating a commission to treat with Canada for abrogation of restrictions on the export of wood pulp and news print paper. Senator Underwood told the senate some actioh was imperative, as the newspaper publishing indus try in the United States “almost faced extinc tion” because of the dwindling newsprint sup ply. A dispatch from Troy, N. Y.., states that General John J. Pershing and staff made an official inspection of the Watervliet Arsenal; there. In an address to several hundred em ployes in the arsenal cafeteria the general thanked them for the part they played in winning the war and said he had been “par ticularly impressed with the efficiency of each individual and with the efficiency of the or ganization as a whole.” Army authorities recently authorized the pub lication of details of a new automatic air plane cannon motor, which while driving battle planes through the air automatically fires one pound shells, capable of piercing armor plates. The motor is a recent invention and is of the Wright-Martin, Hispano Suiza design. It is a modification of the 300-horsepower type, and is geared down. Through the center of the driving shaft, a thirty-seven millimeter auto matic cannon is installed, its muzzle projecting through the hub of the propeller. The cannon is capable, acording to army re ports, of piercing the armor of tanks and submarines. The motor is also equipped with two machine guns. These are synchronously attached to the engine so that they can be fired through the propeller. The new airplane motor cannon is to be exhibited at the second aeronautical show in New York. The tree on the courthouse tower has made Greensburg, Ind., famous and given it the name of the ’’Lone Tree City.” This tree first appeared in 1871. It is still vigorous, leafing out in the spring as soon as the other trees! and waving its beautiful branches at a height! of 110 feet from the earth. It is said these in only one other place on earth where there is anything of the kind, and that is on the chimney of an old mill in Scotland, not far from the birthplace of Robert Burns. Whenever a passenger train goes through DON’T NURSE YOUR AILMENTS I By Dr. Frank Crane Whether or not you believe in Christian Science, at least Reversed Christian Science' is true. That is to say, if you want heart disease, lie awake of nights and listen to your pulse; if you want stomach trouble, inject your thought regularly into your stom ach trouble; if you want a bad-looking mouth, keep fixing it and screwing at it; and if you want any member gland, or organ of your physical frame to go oi. a strike and begin to act up, give it a good dose of self-conscious ness. So that I say that whether or not your thought can cure anything, it can certainly give you something in the way of disease. The same is true of the soul. There is no recipe so infallible for giving you the mulli grubs and the moral pip and spiritual colic as to keep prying into yourself. Analyze all your good motives and pretty soon you won t have any. Suspect your good impulses and they will soon wither and die. Go around in your soul with a dark larttern, like a Sherlock Holmes, and before long all your decent, self respecting, manly elements of character will get disgusted and move out. The one sensible, moral and religious th ; ng to do with yourself is to let yourself alone. “Look out, not in,” was a famous saying of Edward Everett Hale. The reasonableness of it is herein: That when you look out you can see something, and —hen yo.. look in you can see nothing. Outside are the sun and trees and sky and people. Inside is a deep, dark pit. You cannot see yourself by looking within yourself. There is a deal of danger in this same self-examination, self-study, self-culture, self-improvement and the like. The way to ruin your watch is to tinker with its insides; the way to ruin your crop of beans is to dig them up every day to see how much they’ve grown, and the way to ruin your body and soul is to think about them. “He that saveth his life shall lose it.” The place to see your real self is outside. There are mirrors all about you in which you can see your soul if you wish. I will name some of these. First, if you want to 'see how good you are, look into the eyes of the one who loves you. Cheer up! It’s true. You are as good as that. If you want to know how mean you are listen to your enemies, those who envy you and bite you. Be humble! its true. You are as bad as that, too. If you want to see what you amount to, look at your work. The psychological function of work is to reveal a ma., to himself. Wh?n Wagner had finished a part of his “Tristan and Isolde,” he’wrote: “As the good Lord said some four thousand years ago, when He had made the earth that it was good, having no one else to say it for Him, so 1 say of this work of mine, having no one to praise me, ‘Richard, you’re the dickens of a fellow.’” That was proper, sane, and reasonable self appreciation. If you’ve never -done anything, in all proba bility you are nothing. (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) possible, he adds. No more acreage should be planted than can be well cultivated. Fer tilizer- should be heavy and of a sort that will give the cotton a quick start. should be prompt, regular and of a shallow , character. Greensburg the windows go up and heads are thrust out. Every one is craning the neck, hoping to see the wonderful tree. Joseph Moss, a druggist in Greensburg, says that in 1875 a photographer, Ji H. Matthews, made a picture of the tree and sent it to Queen Vic toria of England. He received a beautiful letter of acknowledgment, with the Queen’s own signature. There were seven trees in all appearing in the early seventies and an eighth tree in 1900, which only lived a short time. Four of the original trees were removed as they threatened to weaken the masonry. Two of the remaining trees, died. There is only 'one on the tower now, a soft maple. It is six teen feet from where the tree grows out of the tower to the farthest twig. From where the tower begins to slope it is filled in with broken stone and mortar, which is solid and yet roots are able to penetrate it. The court house was built in .1856 and the mortar used at that time was not as compact as that used now. Just how the tree has sustained its life during nearly fifty years is quite a mys tery. HOOVER AND PENROSE (The New York World) Senator Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, who is the real leader of the Republican party in so far as it has a leader, has is sued an edict in regard to Herbert C. Hoover: Herbert Hoover could never be con sidered by a Republican convention as a fitting candidate for die presidential nomination. Mr. Hoover is an adherent of the Wilson end of the Democratic party. Any good Republican can be nominated for president; but Mr. Hoover is neither a good nor a bad Re publican. He is no Republican at all. Senator Penrose will have more to do with the selection of the Republican candi date for president than any other man, and his arbitrary exclusion of Mr. Hoover moves the Philadelphia Public Ledger, a Republi can newspaper, to ask: Why are the Republican staff officers driving Herbert Hoover into the Demo cratic party? Why are they presenting a discredit ed Democracy with its one chance of winning the election? The answer is simple. Senator Penrose and his associates in the Old Guard are con cerned first of all with the control of the Republican organization, which means the control of the Republican party. A Repub lican president is of no value to them un less he is their kind of Republican. On the contrary, he is a menace, for he would try to destroy their power, take the organiza tion away from them and ruin them political ly. No Democrat could do that. Conse quently, they would prefer any kind of Democratic president to the wrong kind of Republican president. In this respect Senator Penrose and the Old Guard do not differ from the ordinary run of professional politicians, whatever their party affiliations may be. There are plenty of Democrats who would rather lose with an organization candidate than win with a candidate like Hooper who would give or ders and not take orders. In his uncompromising opposition to Mr. Hoover, Senator Penrose is following the in stinct of self-preservation. Nobody knows better than he that if Mr. Hoover were the Republican candidate for president he would be elected, and that if he were elected the Penroses and the Lodges and the Barnses and all the rest of the reactionary crew Would soon cease to dominate the Republi can party. The leader would be Herbert C. Hoover, and Hoover’s opinion of Penrose politics is a matter of record. In asking Boles Penrose to take up Hoover the Public Ledger is asking the senator from Pennsylvania to cut his own throat po litically. It ought not to be astonished if he vigorously protests and resorts to drastic protective measeures, like reading Hoover out of the Republican party and defining him without qualifications as a Wilson Deniocrat. If the Public Ledger belonged to the Old Guard wing of the Republican party it would feel as Penrose feels about it. Safety first! KNOWLEDGE BY CHANCE By H. Addington Bruce ONE summer day a scientist stood gaz ing idly out of his study window. Nearby he saw a cat sunning itself on the roof of a shed. As he watched, the cat happened to rise a.nd move a little in order to get out of the shadow cast by a house wall. A few min utes later the cat again moved, as the ad vancing sun lengthened the shadow. Amused and at the same time in a ques tioning mood, the scientist continued to watch the cat. A third, a fourth, and yet a fifth time he saw it change position to keep in the sunlight. He noted its attitude of complete relax ation, its evident feelings of contentment. The thought occurred to him: “It must be that this cat is getting some thing out of the sunlight of great benefit to it. Would human beings get the same thing?” Thus, the story goes, originated the work of Finsen, the famous “light cure” specialist. It is a typical instance of what is so often termed “knowledge by chance.” And, undeniably, chance played a part in Finsen’s notable discovery, just as it has played a part in many other discoveries and inventions. The names of Newton, Da guerre, Galileo are three of the many that come thronging to remembrance in this con nection. Yet, it is important to appreciate, in the instance under discussion chance did not play nearly as big a part as that played by Finsen himself. Hundreds —nay, thousands—of other men had seen cats basking in the sun. It re mained for Finsen to raise the practical question of a cat’s passion for sunlight. So with Newton and the falling apple, Galileo and the swinging lamp. Chance alone, that is to say, is not sufficient, is never sufficient, to effect a scientific discov ery or create an invention. In the absence of a keen-minded observer chance could operate to doomsday without producing such a result. As Professor Mach has put it, with reference specially to “accidental” in ventions: “In all such cases the inventor is obliged to take note, of the new fact; he must dis cover and grasp its advantageous feature, and must have the power to turn that fea ture to account.” And, just as truly, it may be affirmed that chance is, in fact, operating all the while to make discoveries and inventions possible. Only, alas! keen-minded observers are not sufficiently numerous. Nor will they ever be unless men are trained, more effectively than at present, to use their minds when they use their eyes and their ears, to ponder causes as well as perceive effects, to discern the significant in the seemingly trivial. We boast of our wonderful educational system. Yet, as clearly shown by our as tonishment at the occasional gaining of knowledge by chance, radical reforms in schooling are needed if most of us are to avoid going through life in mental semi blindness. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) TUESDAY, MARCH !), H)2<>. THE SEMI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current Questions and Events Congress and the Merchant Marine In giving his views about the American merchant marine General Leonard Wood avoids details, as does almost every public man who ventures to say something about this irrepressible and difficult problem. AH agree that we should have cargo carriers un der the American flag in suficient numbers to transport American products to all parts of the world. It is like the question of con tinuing to pay rent when a man should own the house he lives in. Why pay the British, Norwegian and Japanese for cargo space when we can build and operate our own ships? The war gave us our opportunity. Ships were built by the gross to carry troops, munitions and supplies to Europe, and the war over, the building program was contin ued in order to found an American merchant marine and put the Stars and Stripes in port where for forty years it was rarely, if ever, seen. “Let us see to it,” says General Wood, “that to as large an extent as possible they (the ships) remain in the hands of Ameri cans.” He adds that “the government will have to sell its ships at considerable loss,” and there the general stops. He does not trust himself to details. He steps warily. Some questions of prime importance re main unanswered. Can the ships be sold cheap enough to tempt firms and companies to buy? What government control 4 shall there be over private operation, if any? Would it be expedient for the government to lease some of the ships, retaining title? Is government ownership to have any con sideration? Can officers be provided for as large a merchant marine as- would be able to compete with the British before they got the cream of the ocean-carrying trade? Can Crews be obtained and kept at living wages, American standards? Is it practi cable to operate American ships profitably without amending the navigation laws? Would passenger ships pay in competition with foreign liners not handicapped by prohibition laws? The American merchant marine is in an inchoate state, waiting for congress to do something, with congress reluctant, back ing away, fearful. The problem must soon be dealt with courageously and with reso lution. One thing is certain—if those questions relating to operation cannot be answ'ered satisfactorily, the sun rising on the American merchant marine will be ob scured by clouds.—NEW YORK TIMES (Ind. Dem.) The Railroad Labor Board The chief objection of the labor repre sentatives to the railroad bill seems to be directed at the provision for representation of the public on the board that is to deal with labor disputes. This will be interest ing to the public, which is really the chief party in interest. What is derived is that disputes shall be submitted to a body com posed solely of employers and employes. Such a tribunal could easily agree to any increase of wages that might be asked, for the roads could appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to raise rates sufficiently to cover the increase and incidentally give them a 5% per cent return—and the commission would be bound to allow the increase. It is well to remember that wages of rail road workers are paid by the public, and that it is out of the public that the earn ings of the roads must come. The proposi tion, therefore, is to exclude the paymaster from the board. This same public, too, is deeply interested in preventing strikes, from which it is the greatest sufferer. Every rule of fair play demands that it should have a vote on the proposed board.—IN DIANAPOLIS NEWS (Ind.) Dentist Restores Eyesight to Viscount Grey A copyrighted dispatch from London to the SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD says: Owing to an operation by an American dentist Viscount Grey’s eyesight is now al most completely restored to him and he is returning to active politics with a view eventually to the premiership, your corre spondent learns in well informed circles. It was while Viscount Grey was on a special mission to the United States that he was troubled with his teeth and went to a well-known Washington dentist, who dis covered a large abscess and removed It from HABANA STREETS—By Frederic J. Haskin HABANA, Cuba, Feb. 24.—T0 the visitor who has just landed and goes for his first . stroll along the Prado, the leading Cuban industries seem to be the purveying of smokes and drinks and the shining of shoes. This impression will be corrected when he pushes up some of the narrow business streets lined with retail stores of all kinds, but of the Prado and of the principal squares it is cer tainly true. You can turn in anywhere and buy the best cigars in the world at amazingly low -prices, and you can generally get food and drink at the same place, while it is never more than thirty or forty feet to a shine. Habana must support more bootblacks per thousand of population than any other city in the world. And they are all kept fairly busy, too. The term bootblack does not seem to apply to these gentlemen of comparative leisure, each of whom owns a chair for his customer and another for himself. Between shines he-almost invariably improves his mind with a newspaper or a book or by gracious and polite conver sation with any who happen to be near. Be sides being a beautifier of shoes, he is an information bureau and a language teacher for the benefit of visitors. He knows his city. Ask a policeman how to get somewhere, and he will almost invariably go and ask the nearest boot black. He will then write the necessary in formation in Spanish oi a sheet from a little notebook which he carries for the purpose. The visitor gives it to a jitney driver, and is promptly set down at his destination for one peseta, having received the assistance of three public functionaries. The Cuban shoeshiner is an interesting con trast to the type who practices the same call ing in our American midst. The shoeshiner in the United States is often a poor foreigner who works for a corporation. The Cuban is an in dependent and dignified operator. He sits down to the job, and having finished one shoe he leisurely moves his chair over to the vicinity of the other. Neither doej he affect the vig-. orous rubbings and slappings of the vulgar* American bootblack. His attitude toward shoe leather is contemplative rather than aggressive. He is more an artist than an athlete. He takes a long time and does a nretty good job, though he does not go in for aver; high lustre. He also foregoes the heroic labor of brushing your clothes. You go away with the impression that your shoes have been shined by one who is a gentleman and a scholar, and is saving his energy for some great effort to be made in the future. The policeman who co-operates with the bootblack in sending you where you want to go is also worthy of a word. He is a man of ferocious appearance, who carries an enormous six-shooter strapped on the outside of his clothes in addition to his club; but his severe look is deceptive. He never bothers anyone. He is not heard telling people to move on or to get back, nor does he prowl around and peer into windows and rattle doors He discharges his duty by selecting a shady spot with con genial company and-standing there. You get the impression that nothing less than murder or larceny would galvanize him into activity, the ambassador’s mouth. Immediately after ward his vision improved and continued to improve until now it is restored perfectly, or nearly so. Indeed, it was said by a close friend of Viscount Grey that hig eyesight is stronger than it ever was before. In due course of time Viscount Grey will attempt to fuse the scattered unionist groups into a solid compact whole—such a party as he led in the house of lords. What Happens After a War A shrewd business man describes the usual course of events after , war about like this: First, the people weary of de privation turn to buying in great quantities the things they could not get during the war. That stimulates production, partic ularly of luxuries and non-essentials. The stimulus leads inevitably to over-production along these lines. Over-production leads to a clogged market, difficulty in selling and consequently difficulty in meeting financial obligations. Now, banking is the most timid profession—bankers have to be cau tious. Bankers, therefore, observing the situation, naturally begin shutting off credit to the business institutions concerned. Thus begins a wave of business depression which may sweep the country. After the Civil War it took eight years to reach that point. How long will it take now? The business man referred to re minds his friends that “things move faster , than they used to.” Are we to expect, then, another “panic of ’73” in five years, or four years, or three? The situation is not entirely parallel. Fortunately we have the safeguard of a far better banking system now. But current developments seem to run pretty true to form. And there is aTways the possibility of being side-swiped by a European panic. No financier, however pessimistic, sug gests that a panic is inevitable. The only question is whether the nation will take, in time, the measures necessary to forestall it. This means, on the part of the general pub lic, the stopping of unnecessary expenditure and the saving of money, which is an old story. On the part of business it means something of which little has yet been said, but which is bound to be forced on the at tention of business men more and more earnestly. That is the necessity of curtail ing expansion in industries that produce lux uries, and concentrating capital and effort on the production of necessities. —LANSING STATE JOURNAL (Ind.) Beware of Class Rule The New York Republican state conven tion said in its platform: “The chief enemy of democracy based up on universal suffrage and majority rule no longer is the arbitrary government of a monarch or of a hereditary aristocracy, but thj cruel and relentless domination of a class bent upon protecting liberty and equal ity of opportunity, but upon exploiting ail who are not of their own kind and group. We support and urge the most vigorous measures to prevent by education the spread in this country of the doctrines of this dan gerous and undemocratic movement.” Wise words and sound; but always to be construed in a manner so comprehensive as to include among the groups that menace democracy not only the red radicalism against which these words are directed, but also the group of red reactionaries whose • ideas color and dominate the platform of the New York Republican state convention. —Duluth Herald (Ind.).« Our Share of Russian Trade The United States, dispatches from Wagh- » ington indicate, plans to ignore the Rnssian ‘ peace plea. But the allies are not planning anything of the kind. They are giving it careful con sideration. The great possibilities of com mercial relations with Russia are in their eyes and minds. They are looking to the future. America should not ignore the peace plea. It should at least be given enough consideration to learn .if it be sincere. If it is not it can be refused. If it is sincere, America will be far behind other nations when the flood of Russian commerce is let loose to the worId.—QUINCY (Ill.) JOUR NAL (Ind. Dem.) ing of a brief case makes one an object of sus picion, and where not only one’s conduct, but one’s conversation and reading are subject to censorship, this unaggreSsive attitude on the part of authority is a welcome relief. The fact of the matter is that the vanishing boon of personal liberty may still be enjoyed in Cub* to a surprising extent. Next to the übiquitous bootblack the thing which most strikes the eye of the visitor is the vast swarm of jitneys which fills the streets. There cannot be a more completely jitnified city on the face of the earth. You can catch a jitney in two minutes literally anywhere in Habana. They are along both sides of the main streets in waiting lines. They dart and circle about the squares like minnows in a clear pool. And they are the hardest jitneys on earth to dodge. The reason for this is that traffic in Habana moves On principles which it takes years to grasp. The Spanish custom is for all sorts of vehicles to keep to the left side of the road, and this custom still obtains in most Spanish-speaking countries. In Habana it ap pears to have come in conflict with the Amer ican idea that one should travel on the right hand side of the street. On some streets traf fic keeps to the right and on others it keeps to the left. There must be some underlying system, but it cannot be deduced by observa tion. When it comes to squares, all the traffic goes around one way, cutting the corners very fine, causing the unwary pedestrian to make many a sudden back jump. The jitneys fre quently collide with each other, but they sel dom run down a pedestrian. A native desiring to cross a crowded street, proceeds to do so in a leisurely fashion, putting his safety entirely in the hands of the drivers who exhibit great skill in missing him. A jitney in' Habana is not the drab affair that it is in the United States. Whatever a Cuban jitney may lack, it is bound to have a suit of highly ornamental seat covers, usually of stamped leather in bright green or buff or some mixed pattern with bright nickel mount ings. A big brass horn i also very fashionable. Some of the effects are really georgeous. if there is a single jitney in the city wearing its factory upholstery we have not seen it. The jitney service is really good, for you can go almost anywhere in the city for twenty cents, and thirty cents will take you even to outlying points, while tc get a car you have but to raise one finger. To find an English speaking jitney driver, however, is almost im possible. Next to the jitney, the American product which has made the most complete conquest of Habana is that ugliest of all headgear, the chip straw hat. In Habana you can buy a real Panama hat for a very low price, and there are other nativ- weaves pleasing in line and easy on the head which can be bought still cheaper. But for some obscure reason the Cu ban chooses the hard straw with its milkpan shape and its tendency to check the circula tion of the blood and cause premature bald ness. A large crowd in Habana viewed frqan an upstairs window looks like a river of flat straw hats, not one head in a hundred wearing